I've been drawing and writing since I was little - shoot, I remember being furious with another kid in my kindergarten class who could color inside the lines when I couldn't - so I've always been a ~creative~ type. But writing was more my schtick until around eighth grade, when my best friend was a girl who drew a lot. Basically, seeing her draw made me go "Oh, yeah, I remember that. That's a thing I can do and I should do it." Before that, I was technically drawing a bit, but most of it was spewed straight from this manga book whose art I can now draw circles around.

As for what inspired me to want to take it further, though, that's equal parts the Internet and Pixar. I go on Tumblr and deviantArt a lot, so I see a lot of really good, really cool art that I want to emulate and excel past. Same with Pixar, more or less - working there as a 3D animator or concept artist is my pipe dream, after seeing how beautiful and emotionally evocative their films are. Nowadays art is a massive part of my life, which is probably for the best if I'm ever going to make a career out of it.