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Adventurer, explorer, and student of all things. I've been teaching myself to draw over the past few years after a lifetime of never drawing. I don't have a lot of free time with which to devote to it, so my abilities improve slowly, but I'm just happy to be able to make things.

Current Residence: Sunnyvale, CA
Favourite genre of music: Folk, Filk, Psychedelic Trance/Rock
Operating System: Mac OS X
MP3 player of choice: iTunes

Favourite Bands / Musical Artists
Bone Poet Orchestra
Favourite Writers
Greg Egan
Favourite Gaming Platform
Mac
Other Interests
Rock climbing, Bicycling, Hiking, Programming, RC Planes
There are two things that have really stood in my way of drawing for most of my life and have been my greatest challenges in my continuing efforts to teach myself to draw. The first is simple the ability to perceive my scene or object in three dimensions.  For the longest time, that simply eluded me.  I'd draw a 2D outline of my concept with no clear sense of how it related to anything else on the page or how to show that it had form and volume instead of just being a flat image. The second is a fear of failure.  That if I put pencil to paper and didn't produce a masterpiece on my first go, that it would indicate that there's something wron
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