Of the top of my head i remember Sonatine mentioning painting, Krypt mentioning oil painting and SS working in the visual arts. Where are you and anyone else i don't know about with setups, background, future aspirations and everything else related you can come up with.

For myself i sort of regained my interest for therapeutic and possible monetary interest in a career in visual art few years ago. I gave up sketching/writing about 15 years ago.

I started graffiti when i was 13 and kept at it for the next 10ish years. At the time i had to make a choice between vandalism and art. I chose vandalism. Three decades later graffiti has gained some respectability as an established art form. It always shared fundamentals with calligraphy/typography and slightly less with other non text based art forms. Still it has a limited appeal to general public.

Few years ago when i regained interest i started with what i knew and then moved to closest more respectable and more accessible art form. Abstract art. I study illustration as personal pet project with zero interest at ever working in the industry. It's very mildly beneficial to anything that i have realistic chance at ever making any coin at.

Graffiti gives you a stunted tool set at base fundamentals. Line, basic form, highlights and drop shadows, some sense of color theory and basic composition. Negative space and how to make images quite literally readable. And something that is lost in fine arts is time and space. Something that mostly has appreciation in commercial art. Limitations that you learn when you have real skin in the game.