Freelance Artist
D.O.B. 01.07.1988
Current Location: West Chicago, Illinois.
Hair/Eye: Brown-ish/Green (most of the time)
Other Interests: Music, nature, nonfiction, cryptozoology, pathology, sociology & psychology, animals, horror and comedy movies, Tamil films - especially starring Prabhu Deva ("Minsara Kanavu," "Kadhalan," "Mr. Romeo," "Vaanaththai Pola.").
Ξ Art
Started Drawing: Somewhere around 5 - 7 y.o., but only started drawing anime after 10.
Inspriations: The person who first inspired me to draw anime was Akira Toriyama. Now my inspiration in art is William Bouguereau. Musical Inspirations include Queen and Pink Floyd.
Tools used: When drawing or sketching, I use either a mechanical pencil or an art pencil. When inking linearts, I have used Sakura Ink pens, Millenium pens, and Zebra ball point pens. I have colored traditionally with color pencils and watercolor paints; and digitally colored with Arcsoft Photostudio, Gimp, Macromedia Flash, and Adobe Photoshop 7 & CS2.
Areas of practice: I have had the most experience in drawing "anime" styles, but I also have practiced in realistic styles.
Would like to practice more in: I would like to widen my horizons with practicing in other styles, but I would also like to strengthen my practice in realistic styles. One day I'd also like to practice drawing with a tablet.
Goals: Get an Associates and Bachelors Degree in Illustration or Graphic Design.
Ξ Web Design
I have designed this whole site with CSS and HTML "by hand" in notepad, I have designed the graphic layout in Photoshop CS2. Scripts were provided for free on the internet. I had an interest in web design since I was 12 y.o.
www.theanimeconnection.net
For being awesome and giving me space to have my site <3
http://www.dynamicdrive.com/
Great site for Javascript/java, dhtml, xhtml, etc. scripts. Very extensive and free to use.
http://www.csszengarden.com/
This site gave me the opportunity to learn CSS with hands on experimentation, I learned practically all of my CSS from them. Provides great design examples to learn from.
http://www.mylittlehomepage.net/
Wonderful site for cool -- and free -- php scripts any site may want to have.
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