Only the Beginning

First Things first

I have never blogged before this moment, so this may or may not be any good.  The same goes towards being a maker, which is an entirely new concept for me.  Does it count if I do art, and creative writing?  Because that's what I am going to stick to for the time being as my path of making/creating.

Today I ended up decorating the cover of my day book (I'll include a picture later), and at the beginning I was truthfully stuck on what to do.  I haven't had that problem since Ap Art, and deciding on concentrations.   Eventually I started to flip through a magazine, and was lucky to find a page that was filled with "word art".  I tore the page out, found another page with some interesting art on it, and moved on to some color paper.  Cutting the pictures and paper into angular boxes, I started to overlap them, creating a design, and went back and outlined the boxes with colored markers.  At first I really hated the design, and thought it was going to go south quick, but I angled some more pictures, and went outlining crazy with the markers, turning it into a startling success.  At least it felt startling when I looked at the finished product, wondering how one earth I managed to do a cover that I would be proud of.

My Opinion on "Making"

I really don't have one yet.  I'm still trying to figure it all out, I believe I have the general scope down, but it's all kind of daunting when ideas are pushed onto me.  As far as I'm concerned I make stories and art, and that's as far as it will probably go, so on the technological aspect of making my future isn't looking too bright.