Do you want to hear something shocking? I haven’t drawn in weeks. Actually, this is a lie. I have been sneaking a sketch or two of the unsuspecting public, but that’s all. Instead, I’ve been satisfying my art cravings with some print design.

I am not a designer. This is just a fact. But it’s intriguing and challenging and I enjoy wasting hours of my life looking at examples of it online and this gives me a reasonably good excuse to do that. Or something.

And since I started down the path of design, I figured web design is just the next logical step, right? HOLY COW. Clearly, artists did not create the internet. Seeing as I LITERALLY forgot math and science existed for the past 4.5ish years, looking at <those> symbols and  </crap> makes my brain hurt. The most I’ve ever done with HTML is to change the size of the margins in my old Blogger account. What is with HTML having different versions? What is xHTML? And what does that have to do with CSS? And is there a free program that does all of this for me? We live in the 21st century! I SHOULDN’T HAVE TO DO ANY ACTUAL WORK ANYMORE.

But I am determined to learn it. I will. And I will web design as a hobby and become filthy rich, taking advantage of other poor, visually-brained artists like myself.

Speaking of headaches and design, I was perusing my hard drive this morning (for it is bursting at the seams. Looks like it’s time to delete some old Stargate SG1 episodes. Thatz right. I watch it and I’m proud of it.) and ran across a CD cover I designed a couple years ago. I thought it was particularly relevant.


Oh, Younger Ashely. So cute with your primitive design skillz.