Making the most of my new Mac

If I haven’t already told you, on Friday I took a day off of college to (essentially) buy an iMac over the phone.

It went very well, and I am told that it is heading for my home for tomorrow (Tuesday).

I can’t bloody wait.

But I feel uncomfortable with paying all of that money and not improving myself, though. The alternative was car, job, and party lifestyle, so this thing had better be good!

I have decided that I want to learn how to draw great stuff in Illustrator.

I think that’s a skill I’d really value myself, and I’m sure I’d love to have to confidence to be able to say ‘yes, I am able to draw that and make it look cool.’

I have very little conventional drawing ability. Clearly God decided that I would be blessed, disproportionately as you may soon see, with good looks instead. My stick men are rubbish and don’t even try to ask me to draw a face. I can just about get by in maths drawing graphs. I can, however, produce quite decent looking technical diagrams using Freehand for physics coursework. Oh yes.

There are some great examples of amazing illustration out there, and while I don’t think I’ll ever be able to meet that quality of drawing, I do hope I’ll be able to produce something reasonably nice.

Of course, I’ll be posting my work, discoveries, sites and all that on Dech as time goes by.