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| a young Bryan in his classroom |
BRYAN: YES! Here’s the thing though. When I am doodling and drawing, most of
the time it actually helps me to concentrate on what the teacher or
speaker is saying. It helps me focus. Otherwise my mind can wander.
Here’s the funny thing. I am almost 44 years old, and I still sometimes
get in trouble for drawing during meetings, etc. But it really does help
me pay attention more, and many of my best drawings have been done
while I’m in class or in a meeting.
MO: Did you LIKE art class? 
BRYAN: That’s
actually a very good, and very hard question. It’s only in the past few
years that I’ve started to begin to think maybe sometimes I’m good at
this stuff. I know it was in 4th grade that I really figured
out how much I love doing this stuff though. And when I figured out that
I could draw things that made people laugh, or made me feel like I was
going on an adventure, or creating a new world, I knew I wanted to
always be an artist.
BRYAN: My
studio is very very messy. But I think that is partly because I am a
very messy person. I have some artist friends who are really good and
are really really neat. But for me, my art creating area looks like a
creative bomb exploded and cartoon characters on scraps of paper are
blown all over the room. I do almost all of my drawing with Sharpie
pens. But then I usually color all my illustrations on the computer.
However I like to create lots of textures to use when I’m coloring. I
will scan almost anything into the computer for my illustrations.
BRYAN: Oooooooo,
this is a great question! I wish I was a guitar player like Michael
Hedges, who invented new ways to play the guitar for many of the songs
he wrote. http://youtu.be/XECSOlD06jc 
