My name is Will DeFries, and this is the Sunday Scaries Podcast, your cure for the Sunday Blues.

This week, listen to questions. Let's not waste any time.

Name one thing you'd like to be into, but can't put in the time for.

Hobbies are something I put all too much thought into, but seem to have a very small success

right with. While in Scotland and January, the house we stayed in had a small bookshelf in the

living room area, and because we were all moving a bit slower up there, I decided to take a look

at what it had to offer. I didn't want to sit down and read for an extended period of time,

but rather peruse something that could occupy my time before our next game of banana grams.

What I found was one of the smallest and shortest books on the shelf. It almost looked like a

children's book, but it was much more. It was called How to Draw the Country Side.

Originally printed in 1955, it featured several techniques for drawing countryside.

Obviously. Everything from bales and hay to thatched roofs, it all seemed somewhat serene to me.

Drawing is something I've enjoyed for as long as I can remember. It has

I began spending more and more time on computers through my life, my passion for drawing,

started turning it into a passion for graphic design. For me, graphic design has always been a

passion, but never something I wanted to pursue full time. Drawing, however, has always been an

itch I've yet fully to scratch in my adult life. Fouts of bored and led me to it every once in a

while, but I still find myself thinking about how I need to be doing it more. Not only because I

enjoyed looking at the finished product, but because I loved the time and dedication that goes into

everything on paper. When I got home from that trip, I immediately found the book for purchase,

and I ordered it in hopes I'd use some of the techniques myself. Have I done it yet? No.

But it's something I can't seem to shake. Unfortunately, another hobby I've always wanted to pursue

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