*The camera pans around a decrepit room. Books, furniture, and various art utensils are strewn about - in disarray and nearly forgotten. Dust blankets everything in thick layers from the floor to the ceiling. Light barely peers through the slatted windows as specks of dust reflect the sunbeams. It is all equally dirty and unmaintained. A slight "click" and "creak" echo throughout the small chamber as the only door leading in is opened. A figure stands in the doorway; weak, weary and bathed in shadow. A small sigh escapes his mouth as the catguy approaches the long-abandoned workspace that was once a consistent escape from reality.

"It's been a long time...", The only thought ringing in his head as hands instinctively pull pencils and paper out from their cobwebbed prisons. Shaking off what little dust can fall; coughing lightly from what enters and irritates his lungs. Moving to the windows, he pulls on the strings to raise the shades and letting in the most light this place has seen in half a decade. Looking about the remnants of what is usable in the room, he pulls over a nearby seat and sits down by the warm rays. For the first time - in what seemed an eternity - his hands begin to draw...*

This is exactly what it feels like getting back in to the art world. Being an adult is difficult when you wish to indulge into your hobby. Combine a hectic work schedule (that doesn't allow working in a sketchbook on the job), body being more susceptible to the effects of aging (gout, schizophrenia, acid re-flux and being accident prone), and very depressing situations (natural disasters hitting home, deaths of multiple relatives, breaking down of vital artistic equipment) and things just spiral out of control for the worse. Luckily, after over 5 years, I feel things are finally looking up.

While I've stated stuff in the past of coming back to the drawing scene, and things going awry, I can say that I've actually been active in creating again and hope to do more in the future. Baby steps toward working my hobby as a means of sustainable income or at least to bring back a following base. Baby steps... but steps nonetheless needed.