mahanxi

For Christmas 2008, I got a set of pens. Not too fancy, but it did have a fountain pen with lots of extra ink. Haha, guess what I'll use it for. I've had so much fun with it lately, but they're kind of hard to get used to. Takes a lot of patience to get the ink amount right.

I was about ready to consign myself to being one of the less creative artists out there when---we had a friend of the family come over who worked in Microsoft. He introduced me to Gimp and I've loved it since. It's a free image manipulation program very similar to Photoshop, but since it's free, you can imagine it doesn't have ALL the trippings Photoshop has. Still, it serves its purpose well, and at the very least, gives my parents a break from hearing me blab on and on about how much I want Photoshop.