Can I be a Comic Book artist or am I stepping into the fire

For your own personal hobby? Go for it! Professionally? Not a chance, unless you practice, practice, practice and compile a great portfolio and compare it to all the successful artists out there.

No reason why you can't do both, my best advice to you is to keep drawing, take art classes, and when you can, go to the Jack Kirby School. Put together, like others said, a substantial portfolio.

Also, check out SmodCo's "I Sell Comics" podcast, specifically the Florida SuperCon episode's where Mike and Meng interview several artists who offer GREAT advice for aspiring artists.

Who knows, one day you could be one of the big names.

Overall you are good but clearly have some weaknesses (mainly hands. I totally understand because I'm horrible with hands.)

Anyway, you need a lot of practice if you want to draw for an existing comic. However, if you were to create something original, you can get by without being the best as long as you stay consistent. You could pass it as your "personal style." If the storytelling is good, your artwork can be quirky and associated with that comic.

Thanks for the support guys, I have alot more work, on my deviantart account this was just some of my favourites and to show how much I improved in like a year, I've been drawing for years but something really made me understand better these last couple years, I'm thinking of having it as a hobby, anyways heres my DA account poolshostage.deviantart.com/

Thanks man

i know that you most likely meant working for marvel or spider-man or one of the big companies one day, to which i say, keep working! your pictures are great, you have a style of your own you're developing, and you're only going to get better.

but, i wanted to say this as well: as a life long reader of comic books, a fan of writing them, and when i was younger a huge fan of drawing my favourite characters - you DON'T need to be a phenomenal artist to become a comic book creator. you need to have style and substance. does being able to draw amazingly help? YES! but in this age of digital tools and programs, one doesn't necessarily need to draw the Mone Lisa all on their own anymore.

also, there are literally thousands of comics that don't rely on drawings that look similar in style, like say how spider-man usually looks the same. look at the art in invincible - most of it is extremely basic, the characters are simple.

in the digital age we live in you don't need to just wait around for a call from marvel, either! you can get started drawing comics that you or a friend write, and with little work just like you uploaded your drawings, put your comic on the internet. as soon as you've done this, you've released your first comic and can start building your career.

don't let ANYONE tell you you can't, that's up to you to decide or not.

and i'll let you in on one more secret: most people originally when they're younger want to draw spider-man and all the other big heroes the way we see them in comics, but as we get older, we realize that the styles that we have that we thought were just bad habits are actually what makes your art different and unique, and that's exactly what ART should be! countless comic artists become sick and tired of drawing the same looking spider-man a million times, they want to draw THEIR spider-man. so that's what i suggest to you: not to be too worried of replicating what you see in the comics, and focus on just enjoying creating comics and learning as much as you can. if you do this, by the time you're an adult, you're gonna be completely set to blow people's minds with a fantastically drawn comic.