I started in the world of computers in 1986 when I still was a teen.
I felt that the computer was a more predictable reality, therefore it was safer than the uncertain world of unpredictable people who could hurt your feelings.
My teen years were not easy, indeed a time I would like to forget.
If I have had a computer I would have been escaping in the virtual reality.
Since I did have no computer, I escaped to the fantasy world of arts.
I depicted my own personal universe in a space adventure. It was a universe that had a star sized automated station and a huge fortress city.
It was somehow similar to Star Wars in terms of physics and space battles, for i did not know Orbiter, but certainly it had some elements of aerial combat in it. I had plenty of dogfights.
So I could say that I was addicted to arts, not to a computer.
This is a picture I made in 4th grade (when I was 10 years old).
You have the fortress battleship surveying the giant enemy dreadnaught.
I used a blue paper, pen, and 12 color pencils and a 12" ruler.
I was so addicted to arts that I taught myself with books at the public library.
I learned perspective in 3rd grade and one year later I was pushing it to the limits.
You could see the degree of addiction to arts in this old picture.
By then my family was very poor, and those were the best and more expensive and professional materials I could use back then. Family economy improved later.
