I've Got the Pencil and Paper, But Not the Rest

The first time I read through Christoph Niemann's "Red Eye" I found Niemann's tale of an overnight trans-Atlantic flight funny and spot on.

(Not that I've flown to Berlin extensively, but I have flown on business enough to relate to many of his observations)

My second read through made me jealous.

Niemann has the talent and the skill to use just paper and pencil to create simple images that make a story take on life. He doesn't have to draw deeply detailed and meticulously rendered images to convey his meanings. The smallest pencil strokes and the slightest shadings are all that are needed to for the artist to communicate with us.

I envy that skill/talent.