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Tue Jun 30, 2009, 5:47 PM

Ooof-!

Gah, I got tagged by HuntressX! Here goes:

Rules:
1. Publish [copy] these procedures.
2. You must state 8 things about yourself.
3. When you have ended the 'journal' you must choose 8 people and tag him/her.
4. Then it is necessary to go to his/her page and say to them that they have been tagged.

Hokay, eight facts about myself!
1. My family comes from Mississippi but moved to Texas about three generations ago. We were Welsh before that.
2. I have an ancestor who served under George Washington at Valley Forge around 1777, explaining my genetic aversion to the cold.
3. My favorite thing in the world is steak. Nice and juicy and rare and cooked with garlic. Excuse me a moment, I seem to be drooling.
4. Before getting totally sucked into Avatar, I hadn't done any real fan art or writing in nearly eight years! 0.0
5. I started drawing in high school with crayola coloring pencils, drawing super heroes. The results were not pretty.
6. Soon after I graduated, I moved on to Prismacolor markers. But I was using them on normal photocopy paper, so the results were, again, not pretty.
7. I started using Photoshop to clean up and color my drawings years later in college. I'd actually been using Photoshop in my art projects there for more than a year before I finally realized that I could save a hell of a lot of money on Prismacolor markers if I just scanned my stuff in and colored it digitally!
8. The only thing I learned at college was that I was good with computers. That epiphany cost thousands of dollars.

And now, the tagging!
AkimiK, Azulera, Erden, General-Blue, JoshLamont, The Doofus, MizunoTohru, and WizardOfKitty! Ha-hah!
Hope none of them are re-tags. >.>

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~General-Blue Jun 30, 2009, 6:46:06 PM

Was the epiphany worth it? XD I think it's really cool to see how artists have progressed to the point they are at now. I mean, you think that your drawings in high school weren't very good, but it's cool to think that they were the building blocks to the amazing art you're able to produce now. (I know, that's sort of a 'duh' statement, but I never realized until recently how drawing was actually something you practiced over the years, like a sport or an instrument. It just seemed like meaningless doodling to me. XD)
Anyways, it was cool to learn this stuff! Now I must do one...

--
"Roy Mustang looks dead sexy... in a miniskirt!"

*sniffle* So true.

~Draegos Jul 3, 2009, 4:28:19 PM

You know, I'd never really looked at it that way, seeing our older work as the building blocks of what we can produce now. I'd always been too busy finding every last flaw in my old stuff and despising it. Thanks to your post I wound up spending the last day and a half going through my cardboard boxes and looking at all my old drawings, from as far back as high school.

>.> So... you owe me two days of my life I'll never get back now. But I kid the General-Blue.

As far as the epiphany being worth the price of admission, I'm torn to give an answer. I make my living off IT Support now, so it was obviously a realization that's shaped my life ever since. But at the same time I blew two years' worth of tuition for absolutely no realistic gain, lost my standing at a school that's very hard to get into and wasted a golden opportunity to get a Bachelors. Leaving the course plan was the right move, going into computers was the right move. But leaving the school and jumping straight into the tech industry with just an Associates under my belt...

Yeah. Not the right move. Heh. Live and learn, huh?