Hube, I'm gonna be a partial devil's advocate here.
If I spent all of my time learning the classics before I started off on my own, I wouldn't be the guy I am today. I have spent a lifetime figuring out, usually on the sidelines, the end goal of my direction. I didn't have any of that pesky training to get in the way of my goals. At the same time, my road was difficult, lonely, criticized, atypical and results were questionable. What I learned from this was by talking to other people who had chosen a similar path in a more traditional manner, they too had a difficult, lonely, criticized, road with atypical results. Fancy that! The difference being they learned how to be instructed and I learned how to learn.
Now, that's a very generic and non-specific generality. I in no way am trying to off-put traditional or structured learning or method, I just do as I do. The similarities being practice, dedication and the willingness to learn, fail and progress (all one in the same, really...).
...on that note, make your blowfish. Make the ugliest, stupidest, lamest blowfish you don't know how. :lol: Hell, I will buy it from you. Just learn something from it. Go ahead and make a billiard, too, just to show yourself you can do it. All are fair. Just don't think you're going backwards, because you've already moved beyond the first steps here--you don't have to "retake" any classes, just keep learning, brother. Just keep learning.
...and be creative. If you think you can do it, you most certainly can.
Love the pipestache, by the way. 8)
