So along with a cheep set of colored pencils, I also picked up a set of pastels. We were taught how to use these in high school and I fiddled around with them a little in college. This past Christmas, I decided it was time to begin experimenting again and the above is my humble first attempt. Below is a pastel sketch of Arthur Hughes' "Ophelia" that I did in college (Note: I have used ms paint(rather poorly) to erase my name and some unsightly blotches).
I got my Super Nintendo Entertainment System when I was eleven years old. That's a couple years after it first came out. The occasion was a little dramatic: to celebrate the end of a two-and-a-half year course of treatment for cancer. I had no idea that it would be waiting for me at home after the final doctors visit. It was a nice spring day, the trees were waving gently in the breeze outside the bay windows. With a cup of tea resting on the coffee table, I set down to play. What was that first game? It was The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past . Around twenty years later, my SNES still works as does that Zelda cartridge. It's been a long way from boyhood in Southern Connecticut to manhood in North Houston, but I'm still playing. Why am I still playing? There were stretches when I didn't. Many times, I've just been too busy. There were also seasons when it felt embarrassing to still be playing video games....
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