~rakarra

So I just bought a bunch of art supplies. A beginner's sketching kit, pads, boards, books...

I'm going to try it. I'm going to be arting it up. To be honest, this is something I just always assumed I never could do. Grade school teachers were never able to get much out of me, although I always liked colouring maps of the United States with prismacolors. My mom hung the Christmas ornaments on the tree every year, but really, that's part of being a mom. They HAVE to put up with their kids' crappy art and think it's wonderful. But  falconmccooper really thinks I should try it out, so BLAME HIM.

I've never had any formal training, not gone through so much as a beginner's art class, although I did take several art appreciation courses in college. But I'm surrounded on a daily basis by artists at work and furry folk at night, so there interest is certainly rubbing off on me. Now, I'm a guy who has trouble with straight lines. Circles. Pretty much anything involving a pencil. So this is going to take a long time. It might even be years before I can draw anything that I'd consider worth posting here. Or I might post a picture of a box today and cry if it doesn't get 50 favourites by nightfall.

I'm not sure where I'm going to come up with the time to do all this! My schedule is pretty busy as it is. Likely the time spend flying circles and doing dailies in World of Warcraft will get cut way down.

*deep breath* Here goes...