Creature of the Day

This weekend, what with having a husband home all the time, I spent some quality time with my storage spaces. Basically, I decided to get rid of all the crap in the house I don't need or want anymore. You won't believe how much of this 'crap' went into my recycling bin. I expect a whole lotta points this week on my recycling account. Anyhow, I'm once more straying from my point. As I was going through all of my stuff (mostly from college), I found a massive stack of my old sketch books. So during a break, I looked through some of them only to discover just how much time I spent drawing over the years. Oh...by the way...in case you didn't know this already, I'm an artist. And I have the B.F.A. to prove it! (somewhere...)As I flipped through the pages with a silent grin on my face, I came across countless creatures that I had illustrated just for the fun of it. And though I rarely say anything positive about myself when it comes to certain things, I will use one of these rare moments now. I realized as I saw some of these creatures, that hey...I had skills! I say 'had' because I'm not certain I still retain these skills. Several years of drawing...um...let's just call them generously portioned women...cartoons at my job in the T-shirt industry, left me lagging in my artistic freedom. Oh sure, I drew other things - armchairs playing football, super-hero condoms, even the occasional duck smoking a cigar. But it made me realize that I have let my skills, trained and talent, slip slowly away. My friend, Mandy, sculpts dogs for a living. It's a trade that sort of fell into her lap quite the many years ago. Her skills in sculpture were always amazing, but she's just gotten better as the years go by. So sometime soon, not sure when of course, I plan on starting something to help my art skills resurface. I got the idea from a friend of Josh's who is also an artist. I want to draw one creature ever day. Not necessarily more than just a sketch, but something to help me rediscover my abilities to draw. I also would like to post these on the blog, but that would eat up a whole ton of space so perhaps I will just post one a week. If not, then I want to start a second blog that I will devote purely to the realm of art. I'm not sure my family and other random readers want to see a bunch of art on a blog about my family life, right? Of course, I have to be able to have time to do said drawings so I might have to give up a short amount of Farmville time daily. And that in itself will be a task. (I'm not as addicted as I sound...really. *twitch, twitch*) The question is...will I begin drawing and realize that my skills are still fully intact, or will I find that they've gone the way of the dodo?