Are You the Best You?

In another lifetime, you would have found me meandering
around art shows perusing paintings, admiring pottery and wishing I had enough
money to buy the whole collection of metal wind sculptures. To say I was into
art was a vast understatement. For years I drew and painted and sculpted and
threw pots. My passion was humorous illustration and my circle of friends
thought I was pretty good; although some people raved, always saying I’d be a
famous artist, I didn’t grow much beyond being a big fish in a pretty tight
fitting pond. Back then, I used to talk a pretty good game about being in
animation. I loved cartoons and animated flicks.

One day, I found myself living in the same city with a major
animation studio. Although I was young, at that time, I had been drawing for fifteen
years. I was self- taught…