Drawing 7A

So I just started full time at the Santa Rosa Junior College and I'm taking a begining drawing class. So far we've just covered some of the basics, like drawing our hands, learning about positive/negative space, and how to draw with just contour. So far, I'll admit it's pretty unexciting...and when you're sitting next to an aspiring video game designer with some serious BO for a few hours, I can't say I look forward to class.
I'm hoping things will improve. The teacher is this really sweet, bespectacled woman who seems to know a good amount about art (she's a painter herself), so that's pretty cool. I don't know, it's all good practice in preparation for transferring to a university to study art, so somehow I'll survive.

Just a couple pieces I thought I'd put up that I did recently. The top piece "marbles" is a triptych done in oil on wood. The second piece is a self-portrait in graphite I decided to do at around 1:00 in the morning a couple days ago...so yeah, I don't always look that gnarly (:

What I'm Lookin' For

What the hell am I thinking? I mean, I know I'm not the only person who is going to try to make it as an artist, but that's a question I ask myself quite often...The economy seems to be falling to pieces, I'm trying to scrape my way through the art program at my local Junior College (woohoo), technology seems to be overtaking the majority of creative outlets and often careers, and I now am supposedly wasting time writing a blog about nothing except complaints about my chosen path of study. Am I alone in thinking this pursuit is risky? I think not.
But, in reality, and as other fellow aspiring artists I'm sure know, a career in the arts is often not chosen, but it's something that can't be escaped. I've been drawing, coloring outside the lines, and painting since I could pick up a writing utensil, and I knew since around that time that I had to be an artist "when I grew up." Alternatives in terms of a career choice were nonexistent. I guess the creative pull art had on my brain and body were just far too overwhelming, and I fell instantly and permanently in love with creating.
So, I haven't decided yet, but presently, I think this blog is just gonna consist of my musings about careers in the fine arts, postings of my work, and just general struggles and triumphs and bits of news, etc. relating to ART. Wow I hope that doesn't sound too boring...