Drawing - 5th grade, I started drawing on notebooks and shit, people were always all up on my notebooks, even wanting to trade notebooks because mine had the drawing. Then when I started doing my book covers, folks were asking me to make some for them...got to the point where folks were paying me to do the book covers (paper that goes over the school books) for them. From there I went to Voltron lions, names, on up to painting jeans. Yep, I painted jeans for folks. All this led to me getting my BFA in fine arts.
Poetry, probably freshman year or so. I had so many emotions going on and I didnt know how to express them. i think i heard someone say that writing helped them or something...so I picked up a pen. I ended with my first poem. I think it got published too, I lost all the paperwork on that.