I became an artist when I was in middle school, because I wanted attention. Despite such a simple beginning, I've always had a thing for pencil and papers as a kid. I am left-handed, and a traditional artist (while I've had to do a few projects for school on a computer, I don't invest my artistic free time in any digitial medium of any kind). Often in life I felt like my voice never mattered, but art helped me in some way. People respected me and had nothing to belittle me for after that.