A preface:

Sadly it wasn't until the end of my art career that I got into serious experimentation with medium or style. My teacher would always make us do things in a bunch of different media and so little thought was given to what would complement a piece rather than fill a quota. Therefore, it required the lack of care as well as the emergence of skill (nipped that in the bud!) to get anywhere, so all my data is mostly two years old now. I regret not having time to devote to it, but alas, IANAAM.

A summary of where I left off:

The classic media of my chosing were the ones easily manipulated; pencil, crayon, color pastel. They're fairly easy to achieve nice looking stuff with if you just think about what you're doing. I always took pride in being able to excel with them moreso than most people bothered to try.

In high school I started to favor oil pastels but toward the end gave them up for being too bright and saturated.

When I did the first piece that showed me how I could control watercolor, I began to fancy it and worked a little independently with watercolor pencils to mimick it but never gave it enough patience and effort to have anything come of it.

A similar story goes for the first time I handeld chalk well. It inspired me to do another piece immediately after to awful effect.

CG has been an on again off again thing for me for about 6 years now. Mostly off xD If I had to pick though, i would choose the archaic open canvas v 1.72 as my poison. There's something to be said for the simpler media; when programs are less powerful, they allow for more personal power to shine through or something silly like that xD Now I sound conceited!

I'm getting to where I can work happily with photoshop though, since open canvas is kinda a windows only app (I need to see if wine will run it now xD) and I really don't have many qualms about *ahem* obtaining software via any routes possible.

I made some really neat diagrams in Illustrator for my last two physics lab reports xD They're probably going to be representative of my future style as an engineer, so I might as well share one