I've been drawing and doodling ever since I can remember. No formal training though outside of elementary and middle school art classes. However, my grandmother used to run an art and framing store in the front of her house, so she taught the grandchildren to sketch with pencils, charcoal, pastels, and later, painting with acrylics and oils whenever we visited. I was never great at it but I always enjoyed it. The few things I've done worth keeping ( as an adult ) were done as gifts so I don't have any of my own work.

The only thing I've done traditionally since 1996 though are doodles in meetings. I started with POVray then and and bought Imagine for windows a couple of years later, and finally got Poser earlier this year. Still, in all of that time, most of what I do is just digital doodling. :)