I wanted to take Art in high school for an elective but my parents refused to sign it off, they said "As long as you live under our roof you will take 'solid' classes so choose a forign language"; I chose Latin then German but still have never found a use for them.
I dabbled with Carbothelo drawings, trying to learn Boris' style for his extra ordinary fantasy paintings but it wasn't untill the military that people started taking notice of my lousy drawings, I'd get board during long night duty assignments so I filled the long hours drawing Conan and Elf Quest scenes just for fun. Then a Sargent asked me if I could do a Reaper on a goat life size that he could use as a stencil to paint on his van, turned out quite nice.
Never could draw people very good however but while teaching color digital print concepts for Sharp Electronics Corp they sent me to EFI for some PhotoShop and print training, that really got me started with PSD and then they gave me some cash and said "Go buy yourself some programs to further your knowledge in graphics", I ended finding Poser and Bryce on a shelf at Frys and thus found my way to do people that I couldn't otherwise draw myself.
Still just a hobby, I find art as a way of venting after a long day of teching networks, compurters, virus exterminating, teaching, and other daily techie duties.

Oh, forgot to mention it was my drawing the 72nd Engineers batalion at Fort Benning adopted as their official logo back in 1982....don't know if it still stand thou, my T-shirt has since disintigrated so I no longer have a sample of the "Demon Tankers" (can't actually remember what we called ourselfs either....oh, old age must be setting in...) Oh, and Total Copy Systems in Southern California used my skydiving copier machine as their log (can't remember the slogan).

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