# Traditional Art My first dip into anything creative in this life time. What starting off with an interest in watching others do it, became constant doodling, which then became sketching, which then became one to one copies of Dragonball Z frames. With how good the copies looked and how accurate they were down to the random spots on some of the characters, if I saw someone do that, I would have encouraged their attention to detail but then pushed them to learn basics and fundamentals. Instead I got given shit for only doing copying, and never creating anything myself, I got given shit for not having real talent or skill. And half of this? Was done by adults. Adults who never knew or understood that I was s fucking child and probably required guidance into what fundamentals were and how to get me to see that learning basics would allow me to create anything from imagination without needing to copy. Nope. The underlying skill was seen and immediately squashed either due to jealousy factors of dickheads who wished they could do what I could, and for those who were forced into a life of servitude to the system instead of being allowed to follow their own passion. So why would anyone allow me to follow mine? Hence began the road to destroying any creative ability I had because I was convinced as a child and young teenager that art is useless and not practical what so ever. Fast forward to the age where art was the first problem that NEVER needed to be solved by AI and became a multi-billion dollar industry for how 'useless and non-practical' it was. What in the actual fuck. I mark shapes, shades and outline negative space on paper now, PURELY as a fuck you to everyone who talked me out of my creativity. I create because it is life blood to me, a necessity. However, I cannot lie about the fact that it serves as an act of PURE defiance, is a sweet fucking bonus.