This is it, I am setting out.

[Arkady]

For too many years now I have been putting this off, I have talked about it, I have dreamed about it, but I have only been fooling myself. I have browsed this site, looking and admiring all the wonderful work that has been done by others, dreaming of what I might accomplish if I put my mind to it. I have pussyfooted around, drawing here, drawing there, knowing full well that I love it, but hiding from it and making excuses from fear of failure. Well I will bear this no longer. I am pulling up my bootstraps, slinging the pack over my shoulder and I am hitting the road, that great road of artistic growth. I have been accepted into the illustration program at my college, and in one week my concentrated art training will begin. For all intensive purposes I am a newbie, there is much I do not know about art but am willing to learn.

I plan to log as much of this journey as I can here, and if I ever get lost along the path, to perhaps find some guidence.

[Dakardaur]

wut is the "journey" worth if there's fear of failure?
as a wise old man once said, (this isnt the exact quote, cant remember well) "fear comes from thinkin of the self (or the goal in this case). If you do not think of the self as self, wut is there to fear?."
Wut am sayin is...no course or stuff will help you if you think of your goal. Think of the moment, live the present, and dun worry about achievements...worry about workin and you'll be there quicker than i can say "stuff" (as english is me second language, i have trouble with some words...for some random reason, thats one of em...especially after a word that ends with an s)

[Fozzybar]

:clapping1

We are proud of you, son!

[Arkady]

Thanks for the advice man, I'll follow it.

[mtw]

I'm gonna do the same. My drawing and painting skills are okay, but I'm far from being able to do what I'd like to and I've been putting off practice for too long. Yesterday I read the short bios on puddnhead (http://www.conceptart.org/about.html) and Kevin Llewellyn (http://www.kevart.com/bio.htm), and the amount of sketching they do every day has helped inspire to work more.

[cucaracha]

hey puddnhead and kev are the same persons, anyways :dead3:

cu

[mtw]

Originally posted by cucaracha
hey puddnhead and kev are the same persons, anyways :dead3:

cu
Shhh. ;)

[Beatnik]

The fact that you are willing to learn makes all the difference. Mix that with some passion and you're on the road to great things. Good luck to you!

:chug:

[Arkady]

Thanks a lot Beatnik, I will try to keep an update on this site as much as I can. Have been wanting to jump into the DSG all summer, but have been working 40 + hours a week to keep rent. I know it's no excuse but my resolution for October was to start doing it if not every day then every other day. I love the work you all do here, keep it up!!