There was a time when I was not only learning how to be a working artist, I also took on being an advocate for artists as well as a businsess educator to artists and inventor communities in the Portland OR area. This lead to me having very little time in my studio to produce my "proper" fine art as I was often in waiting rooms, waiting to meet with politicians, developers, community leaders and the like. To help me continue the practice of being artist in these seemingly wasted bits of time (the meetings scheduled often began very late), I began taking a manga or ink sketching pad with me and a set of thin tipped markers. Whilst I waited for the very important and busy person in the lobby I would doodle. I kept on doodling in this way for years, and am now again picking up the practice - not because I am waiting, rather because I am done waiting and I really enjoy the look of the drawings...