It's always sort of irritated me that it's so hard to get other artists (or hell, even mildly popular ones whose work is really good but underrated) to talk about how they learned their trade. It's like they just came out of nowhere, POP! and suddenly had all of their skills as finely honed as they are.

Come on, guys.

Sure, I'd like to be able to say I got as far as I have without relying on anyone else, but let's be realistic; you can only reinvent the wheel so many times before you get tired of what's wrong with your work and go learn how others worked around the same issues.

Especially in a place like this, when you see a good artist you'd like to ask a question of, you probably want to leave a comment, and then if you do actually decide to go ahead and try, you'll probably spend a lot of time afterwards hoping and praying they'll get back to you.

Unless of course you're somebody well-read (like, um, a journalist) who offers to blog about them in front of everyone - then a few of them might jump on the bandwagon and give you a lot of interesting trivial information about themselves. So, okay. But in my experience, the majority that goes along with it do it just so they can increase their own popularity, and a large majority of the rest of them refuse to do it because that's exactly what it looks like (which, while it'd be an acceptable and valid form of self-promotion, doesn't mean it's not attention-mongering), so that's really not fair either.

Bleh... anyway, I continue to mumble into the depths of the internets.

School starts in approximately 11 hours. Figure I'll have to post up something soon... I'm still working on Moonshaft's thingagummy, er... damn, for once I have to complain about the name chosen for someone else's creation. I just can't spell it. Anyway, the whole elf foresty-place scenery will be getting some attention in the next day or so. Been putting it off again; I think it's just the scale of the piece that makes it hard to finish.

Or I'm just being flippant. It happens. Hope nobody's too disappointed with me now. >_>;

Oh well. On the upside, with school starting tomorrow, I may meet some interesting new people!
Or a bunch of plain, mumbling fools who remind me of what I'd be like if my IQ were about 50 points lower. Okay, that's sort of mean, but after all, you never know who will be giving you the awkward looks when you walk into a classroom on the first day of the new semester.

Oh, and squirrels.