LOLZhann! Have you no respect for the dead? ;) My talents in art were immediately apparent when I was still in the first grade at school. All the kids would come to me to have me draw King Kong, clowns, cartoon characters and such for them. I was constantly drawing at home and my mother encouraged me to do so. I was sketching portraitures of the people in my family while still in the fourth grade to a good likeness. In intermediate school right through high school I was placed into special art programs together with other kids that showed an artistic inclination. We became involved with school art projects for plays, newsletters, art exhibits, art contests, yearbooks and such. We had plenty of art workshop hours. By the end of high school I had won a scholarship for Pratt Institute of Art and Design in New York. At that point I was getting ready to enter college and had to make a serious decision about my future occupation. Somehow I didnt see much of a career in the art field. I saw it as highly competitive and the thought of the starving artist image didnt quite sit well with me. So I steered myself away from art and to other interests. Nevertheless, I took a few elective courses in art while in college. I happened to study art history under the guidance of famous artist and poet Jimmy Ernst, the son of world famous surrealist artist Max Ernst of the Dada movement. I put down pencil and paper for many years and didnt get back into art until computer resolutions began to boast computer graphics. One of my first real computer graphics program was a piece of software to came to the PC by way of the Mac call DeluxPaint II.