When I was five years old and in the first grade the nun who was my first teacher caught me doodling. She was a very learned person I believe... she took one look at what I was doing and rather than scold me she told me she wanted me to draw objects for the bulletin board. She had me draw the letters of the alphabet, then words we were learning, animals that the words described and other objects associated with those words. I have been drawing ever since. During the next five years I drew for every bulletin board at that school. By age ten I had started to...more