Day Three Hundred and Twenty-One - That's Unpossible

Although art is my passion, I am definitely not much of an artist. Even as a kid I dreaded art class. I would envision these great works of art [not real ones, just things my brain would dream up] and then, since I knew I could never represent them in any way I would just sit there and not do anything. I'm not a big fan of failure, so I tend to just not try things that I know I won't be good at doing [part of this project was an attempt to get over this - at least a little bit]. I tried doing some abstract and/or really simple concepts as a kid, but this caused my teachers to believe that I was a little strange [and I have the report cards to prove it - thankfully, we were not graded in art class. As a teenager I enjoyed mucking around trying to design different fonts and symbols [seriously - I had legal pads full of such things - it was a good time-filler for the baseball off season I reckon]. But yeah, that's about it. On Wikihow I've seen plenty of articles referring to how to draw various things, but I'm a firm believer that following steps will not make you a grande artiste. To prove my point, tonight I drew an impossible triangle. And here it is:


I think it looks pretty neat-o, although it's harder to appreciate and see the illusion when you have created it yourself. A few nitpicks - I really should not have used lined paper for this task - it disrupts the illusion. Joseph was initally impressed that I was able to get everything so even in appearance, despite not using a ruler [I used a baseball ticket stub to keep things straight]...but upon closer inspection, things aren't really that even at all. Also, I suck @ shading.