"Youtube Class #1" or "Old Dog Meet New Trick"

So I have started an interesting experiment as it relates to polymathic pursuit. I noticed one day by accident actually that there are thousands of "How to..." videos on youtube for anyone to expand their interest in varied and unusual areas. I have decided that, for as long as it fun, I would try to learn something new by watching youtube videos and then trying to replicate what I just saw. So far, I have done 3 of these experiments with varying degrees of success. So let's see where this takes me and find out what new skills I end up learning.

The first experiment was drawing. I have always had a minor interest in drawing, but I am a big lover of art. I love painting and sculptures, as well as, music and dancing. The problem is I stink at all of them. My idea of drawing is stick figures that look like they have scoliosis. I took 6 total years of piano with only a rudimentary ability of my right hand to show for it. I love to sing but people prefer I do it in my car, alone. And yet every time I turn on PBS there is Bob Ross mocking me and my inability to put paint to canvas in any sort of rhyme or reason. so, with this in mind I decided I would go for broke with my first task and draw a rose. 3 sheets of paper later and many pauses and rewinds of the youtube instructor, I did it. But I thought it wasn't very good. I deemed it an utter failure and started to go back to the "drawing board" (pun intended) and do something else. That is when my family came in and ooohhh and aaaahhhhed over this drawing only to be in disbelief that I did it!

So, here we go! Let's see what else I can do!

You can try it too.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ty97pp3Yzbk