I bought my first computer, a shiny new Northgate, a Wacom tablet and Painter solely for the purpose of drawing.
Along the way, my interest in computers overtook my desire to draw.
I became a full fledged computer geek and went for nearly 15 years without drawing anything.

Recently the tide turned and now computers interest me about as much as toasters.
I've gone back to drawing.
As I became reacquainted, I realized a few things.
Working on paper is much harder than I remembered.
I still have some basic talents but I've really got A LOT to learn..
An old guy can only make so much progress when working at home and alone.
I'm not as autodidactic as I used to be.
These are some of the reasons why I decided on Going Back to school.

I still use Painter to draw with. It's a great tool for practicing while saving on material costs.
I don't consider it appropriate to use for final products anymore though.

Here are a few sketches from winter '03.
If you click on these thumbnails the full size image will open.
Beware, the full size images are large files & they could take a long time to open.