Hello everyone,
My name is Tublis (Toulee), but you can just call me Tub. I am 29 years old, and will be turning 30 next month unfortunately. Every year I get older and everyone else seem to get younger.
I love to sleep and I sleep a lot. As I say, the perfect place to 
is under the shade of a 
on a wooden bridge next to a running river on a cool and 
day. Yes, I have experienced it and it was pure bliss. If heaven existed on Earth that was heaven for me. Surprisingly, I didn't get maul by a bear 
. That's how I got my nickname sleepingTub.
I'm more of a writer, or storyteller, than an artist, but I have always done both for as long as I can remember. To put it simply, I draw what I can't write and then I put that drawing into words. It's part of my writing process.
My art experience is somewhere between beginner and intermediate level, but let's just say I'm a beginner. I took art classes throughout my highschool and college years, but never took art seriously. Art to me was a way to escape from my studies and academics thus my art skills are not that great because I never saw the need to produce GREAT art. Just throw a little paint here and there, and maybe my handprint right here! By the way I'm horrible with colors. As long as I could understand what I was trying to convey in my art I was happy with it.
My specialty as I say, is doing sketches in pen or pencil on paper with my horrendous skills, however, recently I've gotten into digital drawing when a friend gave me their old tablet display they no longer wanted. It took me awhile to get used to digital drawing (I'm still getting used to it), but after a month or two of toying with it I've gotten a little better at it. I mainly struggle with hand-eye coordination as well as pressure control. It sure gets frustrating at times when the lines don't come out how I want them too. Sometimes I wonder why I put myself through all that frustration when I can just do it traditionally with less stress haha.
I joined Marc's ART School program a month ago in hopes to improve my drawing skills. Hopefully in the long run I will improve a lot. If I don't that is ok as well. Some improvement is better than none.
My life goal and dream for the future is to publish my writing and stories with original artworks done by me. One day I'll get there!
I do work fulltime plus overtime so I don't have much time to practice. What little time I do have free I split it between writing, drawing, sleeping, and well life of course.
I created this topic mainly to keep track of my progress with the program. I'll try to post at the end of every month with the assignments I've done as well as my own works of art (if I'm not too embarrassed). Hopefully, it helps keep me on track when I begin to wander off to who knows where haha.
Yep, that was a long introduction.
Cheers!
