Struggling on a Saturday

I was going to post a picture of quite possibly the fugliest piece of vector art known to man, an incredibly self-deprecating photo of myself made only more horrible as I have spent the last hour or so applying reckless chunks of color in not so strategically planned places in hopes of teaching myself how to do vector stuff in Photoshop. I'm a little flummoxed.

For the most part, I don't find simple vector art visually appealing (do a Google image search for "vector art," and I think you'll see examples of what I'm referring to). It fascinates me since I don't know how to make it, but on the other hand, it's so clean and precise and devoid of mistakes that would otherwise indicate an imperfect human hand, some artifact of action or emotion, anything. It's easy to take in, digest with your eyes, and appropriate for your own uses. It's like eye candy that pops off the screen, an empty carb with no nutritional value but tastes delicious.

Why bother? I think it'd be a useful skill set to have, and I guess it's a little enjoyable, like some weird, computer-based version of color by numbers or something.

Why the picture of my feet? It's a beautiful, breezy day outside, so I think I'm going to turn off the computer for a bit and enjoy some summer weather.