What art means to me:
I have always appreciated art, and I've always participated in one form of creative outlet or another through the years. I've done pencil sketches, digital art, pixel art, mixed media, painting, and anything else I could get my hands on. But, I never felt I could call myself an artist until the fall of 2010--when, out-of-the-blue, I started drawing abstracts. I think my art is what helped pull me out of the deepest depression of my life, and I would be lost without it!

My favorite creativity quote by Ira Glass:
"What nobody tells people who are beginners...and I really wish someone had told this to me . . . is that all of us who do creative work, we get into it because we have good taste. But there is this gap. For the first couple years you make stuff, and it's just not that good. It's trying to be good, it has potential, but it's not. But your taste, the thing that got you into the game, is still killer. And your taste is why your work disappoints you. A lot of people never get past this phase. They quit. Most people I know who do interesting, creative work went through years of this. We know our work doesn't have this special thing that we want it to have. We all go through this. And if you are just starting out or you are still in this phase, you gotta know it's normal and the most important thing you can do is do a lot of work. Put yourself on a deadline so that every week you will finish one [artwork]. It is only by going through a volume of work that you will close that gap, and your work will be as good as your ambitions. And I took longer to figure out how to do this than anyone I've ever met. It's gonna take awhile. It's normal to take awhile. You've just gotta fight your way through."