art seemed to always be around us when i was very small. my grandmother, who helped take care of my older sister and i for several years, was a very craft-oriented person. she did it all: feltcrafts, oil painting, scrapbooking, cross stitch, crocheting. later she - and we - experiemented with soap making, candlemaking, and jewelrycrafts. she was an inspiration for the polymath i desire to become.
another inspiration was my older sister. she was great at drawing, and i especially liked her sonic the hedgehog fanart and her dragon pictures. but this was at a time when we were getting older, into high school, and i felt like drawing was her thing. (my thing, at the time, was computers; i was learning the contemporary methods of web development. anyone remember mootools? lol!)