Kay so this is one of my favorite stories cause it shows I've been drawing for almost my entire life!
Back in elementary school, say about 3rd or 4th grade I had 2 friends (not really the nicest kid back then) Destiny and Sam, I only got along with Sam half the time, and I dont remember much of her anymore.
However Destiny and I were definitely best friends! She was considered the "gross" girl at school picking up bugs, digging, fake picking boogers (most of the time :// ) etc etc, however she was super sweet. One thing I really liked about her was that he could draw the COOLEST dragons. She was like 7 and (from my memory) was able to draw amazing, realistic looking dragons. They weren't ever more then just a headshot or a bust, but they were still amazing!! I wanted to do that too!
At the beginning though all of my drawings looked like weird S noodles with fin-type wings and sometimes horns. I dont have any pictures otherwise I'd show you, but for now here is a recreation.
After elementary I moved schools and etc and I continued to draw, in my head I repeated to my self "if I keep drawing and drawing I'll get good at it some day" so that's what I did!
I so have some drawings from middle and high school, I can post them here: https://sta.sh/21b9791r470y?edit=1
And over time I continued drawing, I havent had any classes on drawing, even in school the only art classes I had were painting, sculpting, or jewelry. So this is all self taught!!
I know its funny; almost every artist ever starts off with dragons or anime, me included xD
I guess you could say my inspiration was my Destiny drawing ;DD