I used to. At first, mostly traditional art. Painting, sketching, charcoal... that was back in school, where that was really the only form of art they would teach. I still do some pretty decent landscapes. I'm terrible at drawing traditional people. I've got a portfolio of stuff from from high-school... took some pretty advanced art classes, even got some college credit for it.
Later, I did mostly anime stuff. Lotta cartoon porn. The problem is that, without proper classes or a drive to learn, I was mostly copying other people's work, and not creating a style of my own. Basically, I'm not very good at it. The stuff I do try to do on my own sucks outright. Mostly because I never learned to properly draw the human form, despite taking specific classes on the subject.
There are two major points to why I gave up on art. One is that all the classes sucked the creativity out of me. It got to the point where I couldn't draw unless I was drawing something from life; which is perfectly fine for traditional art, but not for what I wanted to do, which was animation. I basically became a human copy machine. I've not since found the inspiration needed to get me back into the creative mindset to do much of anything.
The second problem is a physical handicap. I've always had the problem, but it's definitely taken hold in adulthood. My hands shake. It's usually subtle, but when I try to do anything precise, or when I'm nervous, they shake a whole lot more. It's something inherited from my Mom's side of the family, I guess. She has the problem just as bad as I do, if not worse. It's crippled a lot of things I've enjoyed doing in the past, like hunting (tough to shoot a gun straight), photography (need a tripod or some really insane shutter speeds to get a non-blurred image), etc.
So that was a lot of explanation for not having any art to show for it, huh?
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