Messieurs et mesdames, Bienvenue au cirque du Skahfee!

(with apologies to Mister Jingles.)

Hello, all. It's been a while since I've had a blog, but lately I've felt the tug, and I've been embarking on a new journey that I thought bore some documenting to random strangers (and maybe a few friends).

Since I can remember, I've had a lot of creative ambitions. I mean, a lot. I made stop-motion movies with my dad's camcorder when I was in grade school, and I was in choir in high school, and did some theatre all the way up past college. I struggle with writing all the time, I've taught myself to design websites, and I've even dabbled a bit with computer game design over the years.

Lately, I've been thinking about one old creative desire that's remained unrequited for most of my life. There was a long time when I was a kid, beginning in grade school up through Junior High, when I was really, really into art. Drawing, specifically. I had a manila folder when I was a kid, just jammed full of drawings I'd scribbled on computer paper with bic pens. A pen and a piece of paper was almost as good as a toy box to me for a while, I remember drawing out epic fantasy battles that would put Tolkien to shame.

It continued through Junior High, when I got my hands on How to Draw Comics the Marvel Way (And after like ten seconds of searching Google, Here it is! Dang, do we live in the future or what?), and decided that I was going to draw a comic book. I can't even tell you how much of American History I completely missed scribbling in notebooks and referring to my dog-eared reference and hanging on Stan the Man's every word (all written before I was even born).

I even did a year of art class in my freshman year of high school, but something changed in my creative leanings and I soon dropped it for choir. After that, drawing and art were delegated to random dabblings and scribbles.

I've felt the tug again lately, though (as well as in a million other creative directions). I have dozens of little projects on the backburner, and I'll document some of my progress here for anyone who's interested to read it (or you know, to amuse myself, as I am wont to do.)

A side note, you're visiting me today on skahfeestudios.blogspot.com. My old blog, skahfee.blogspot.com is abandoned and was snatched up almost immediately by a spambot. I've informed the good folks at Blogger, but... well, you know how it goes.

I'll see you around the corner. Till then.

Cheers!
S