I just realized how much time was wasted when I was younger. My elementary and High school's art classes never really taught me anything other than SOME perspective, SOME techniques, SOME still life, SOME crosshatching and how to do SOME construction lines on the face. And when they did teach it was in a way that, even now that I'm more experienced at art, is overly complex and doesn't REALLY tell you how it works (e.g. step 1: draw a circle, step 2: Draw the rest of the fucking thing). I never learned much and it just felt taxing whenever they taught me. And I did it all for the grade and not because I enjoyed art. Even the art club (which I only joined for one year) didn't teach us anything. They just tell us to bring tools and materials, and when we do, they just say go art something... Sure this is a good creative exercise, but only if you knew the basics which we didn't. We, or at least I, had and still have no idea how to paint on canvas, which paints to use for what I want to achieve, how to properly use a paint brush, what other tools can be used to paint with to achieve textures, different mixtures of paint to use, and many more. And at the time I had NOOOO knowledge of proper anatomy and proportions... I learned SOME years later from a how to draw manga book ... let me let that sink in... I learned more about anatomy and proportions form a HOW. TO. DRAW. MANGA. BOOK. So needless to say my results were worse than what I could've done, given proper instruction. I now remember the reason why I didn't draw as much back then. No one was there to teach me properly, hence no one sparked my interest in art at all until (brony alert) mlp. Sure a little anime fanart here and there, and some OC anime character things, but I would've never gone beyond that if I haven't met any of the artbutts on the MLP fandom. I've learned more shit about art in a year than I did my whole life prior to it.

Where am I going with this? Nowhere at all. I was just thinking about the time wasted not learning something I love.