Your post made me want to go and spend a fortune on art supplies, LOL I haven't sketched in such a long time that I can't even remember the last time I did. It's been very many years. I used to sketch with charcoals and pastels. Lately I've been thinking of turning my dining are (stupid 1 bedroom apartments, lol) into a mini studio and taking up oil painting. My problem with that is the ventilation though, and trying to keep my cats and their hair away. I tried painting along time ago and loved it! I could never do portraits (problems recreating faces), but my landscapes turned out pretty good. Bob Ross is my idle :)

"It is good to see ourselves as others see us. Try as we may, we are never
able to know ourselves fully as we are, especially the evil side of us.
This we can do only if we are not angry with our critics but will take in good
heart whatever they might have to say." - Ghandi