Prompt for Essential First

Bananas
The spider is one of my worst fears. They have eight legs and some have a matching set of eyes. They crawl around unaware that they have intruded into your personal space. Bathrooms, airplanes, and hanging out onto of you as you drive int he rain. The most feared ones were the on the Tv. They would rare and exotic but I could always see them coming out form underneath my bed or couch. I would have to flip the channel and think of happy thoughts. It was when I was younger that the discovery channel had a fun special called Wild Nature, cut and deadly critters were shown. Of course then they decided to show the banana spider. I had seen one in D.C. in the the Natural Museum of History. This lead me to believe that spiders lived in bananas causing me fear of the yellow bastards.
I imagined they would living in it, waiting for an unsuspecting victim to come and peel them open, then attacking. They were yellow and hid very well, and have been known to harm banana pickers. I remember my grandma offering one, already peeled but I saw a dark brown spot in cream colored innards thinking it was the spider's poison. Needless to say I refused. It wasn't till years later that I had the courage to actually pick one up and open it. I examined it and realized nothing could actually live in it.
I closed my eyes and took a bit, delicious.

Art All Night

I have never displayed my art work. Al though I call myself an artist I have been always conscious when it comes to my pieces. That is when art all night came along. I have never heard of it but it was free and all you needed to do is display your work, and maybe even get lucky and sell it. Come April 24th I went to Lawerenceville and and dropped off my form and artwork.
It was nothing special just a sketch of a demon qweller in Chinese mythology. He was in ink and held a sword and demon under his arm. It was the face I loved, his wrinkles and nose, and expression all simple and perfect, something new I had learned from the masters.
But was it enough to impress? Come the day of the big show I look around in the adult section, reserved for images with adult materials. Most of them were nice, and a little "Sloppish". Then I wandered into the regular section with my friends who I was excited to show my work. We checked all the panels until in the very end I found it. It was simple, and next to a beautiful landscape appeared amateurish. Something I wasn't expecting.
I knew after seeing it, I needed practice. Thats the purpose of the place, i thought. To show your skill and see where you showed go and if you need more time to develop, that night I went back to the drawing board, ready for next year.