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It doesn’t matter how good your gear is, if you don’t have the ability, 20 bucks worth of pencils and markers isn’t going to make you a master of the arts on the first try. I didn’t squish this photo, either. I drew the car squished! Niiiiice. Oh well, hopefully I’ll improve? It took five days to get up enough courage to attempt this. I read most of the book and kept coming up with reasons to do other things, but tonight I finally put the pencil to the paper, so that is pretty awesome. It turned out better and worse than I hoped, but at least now there are pencil marks on the page. Even if a person is not destined to greatness in an effort, there is always room for some amount of improvement, and I hope that with practice I will improve to the point that I am at least proficient enough to satisfy and amuse myself and maybe make a buck occasionally. In the meantime, I’m being reminded of a LOT of stuff I forgot from high school art classes!