Oh all right, this is making the rounds lately so I'll join in. I don't journal enough anyway. ^^

1. Why did you join FurAffinity?
Originally just to watch and follow all the wonderful artwork, but after a little while I decided to start posting my own stuff too in case anybody happened to be interested. The community around FA is one I've always enjoyed, bringing together a lot of wonderful, warm-hearted and deeply creative people.

2. What does your username have to do with you?
'Doran Eirok' is the name of my fursona/scalesona, online identity, and dragon self. The friendly blue dragon is much more than just a character to me; he is how I see myself deeper inside and the image by which I identify myself in a spiritual sense.

3. What is your current avatar of?
My own dragony self diligently working to keep the inside of your monitor clean, wonderfully animated by  Snapai a couple years back. Full size version is here: https://www.furaffinity.net/view/6323599/

4. How many watchers do you have, and how many do you watch?
525/375

5. Do you have more than one account?
Nope! Just the one. I like to keep things simple. The only division I do is to put commissioned and gift art that is -of- me rather than -by- me in the Scraps gallery, along with my actual scraps. I'm also on a few other websites which get most of the same uploads, but I tend to treat FA as my main stomping ground.

6. Name 3 of your favorite artists on FA.
I swoon over everybody on my watch list! But if I had to pick three favourites at kind-of-random, I'd go with  Ryoken,  TaniDaReal, and  FredrikMiller.

7. What artist do you admire because of their personality?
Again it's near impossible to narrow it down, there are so many. Artists can reveal an awful lot about themselves through the artwork they create, and there are many whom I don't know personally but really admire and respect by what they share here. If I had to pick just one I think I'd have to say  Necrodrone13.

8. Do you comment, fave, or both?
I try to comment if I've got something of note to say, or there are particular things about a submission I especially feel drawn to. For my own part I really appreciate when people take the time to comment on specific things they like about one of my own works. I often do just fave artwork too though, usually when I just like it all around and don't have something to say that feels like it would contribute anything, especially if dozens upon dozens of comments are already there expressing the same thoughts.

9. What do you typically post on FA?
Just about everything I art. Mostly digital personal work, mostly of my own dragon self. Sometimes fan art of things I like, sometimes anthro clothing and paw-wear designs, sometimes random ideas or requests from very close friends. There's also an odd smattering of the occasional bit of literary fiction or digital music. Commissioned art and gifts I've received are in the Scraps gallery.

10.What's your favorite submission in your gallery?
Another tricky question! So much of my artwork has deep personal meaning to me. While the Paw Fashion Project certainly deserves a mention for being such a fun project to work on and getting me noticed by so many wonderful and friendly supporters, for an overall favourite I might have to pick 'Sunny Morning.' https://www.furaffinity.net/view/1611399/ I feel like a little more 'artisticness' went into it, and the anatomy and lighting effects and proportions are things I'm still quite pleased with even five years later. Plus, the overall look of it feels to me like it presents the sort of relaxed, friendly cuteness that's so central to how I like to think I present myself.

11. What are the things you wish you could draw better?
Lines. All my lines are sketchy and scratchy and take aaaaaaaaages to clean up in the 'inking' stage of any drawing I do. Also I wish I could be consistently better with overall anatomical proportions, and I often think I should branch out a lot more than I do into drawing other things besides just... well, myself. I'm a bit vain and self-absorbed with my personal artwork. ;) But with that said, I try to avoid wasting too much energy 'wishing' I could be better at drawing something. If I really want to improve at those or any other things, I just need to prod myself into practising them more really! Which I will continue to argue is true for anybody.

12. How many hours a day do you spend on FA?
Probably too many. ;) I might guess it ranges between 2-5.

13. Are you a fast, slow, or medium typer?
Probably medium. I don't like making typos, but I do make them, so I spend a bit of time backspacing and correcting myself. Unlike much of the internet, I suffer from an irrational fixation on typing out my thoughts into complete, coherent sentences; using passable punctuation, capitalisation and grammar, and actually providing any sort of context for the thoughts I express. These things require a little bit of patience sometimes.

14. What is the most annoying thing people ask you?
There's no single overall answer to this, but probably just... anything that's asked or said with such catastrophically poor or absent grammar/structure/punctuation that I struggle to even discern what's being asked or said. I'm fully understanding in the case of a language barrier and I enthusiastically salute anybody making the effort to learn more than the measly one language I can speak myself, but especially if English is your first language then seriously people, if you're going to try and communicate with your fellows, at least bring a -little- bit of effort to the party. ;)

15. What is the most annoying/offending comment you've received?
"I wish I could draw as well as you."
*clears throat, deploys the soapbox*
Now don't get me wrong, I understand and appreciate that this is generally meant as a compliment, and for that part of it I am very grateful. However, there are just... multiple really huge problems I have with this statement.
-The first thing to get out of the way is my own modesty, and the conviction that there are sooooo many artists out there with a much broader, deeper, and infinitely more professional skillset and portfolio than my own. I'm very proud of what I can do, but it's something I do in my spare time for fun on a very occasional basis while there are countless artists on this very site who create art for a living and put so much more effort into what they do than I ever will. So being held up as though my own work some kind of artistic pinnacle is immensely flattering, but feels very awkward and undeserved. Not because I think my art is 'crappy' or anything, just because I know how much more effort and energy and blood and sweat and tears and wailing and gnashing of teeth goes into other people's artwork than mine.
-Secondly, now that that's out of the way... The drawing ability I do have, I didn't get by 'wishing' for it. Sure, it's possible that I was born with a genetic predisposition toward above-average stats in terms of colour perception, spatial awareness, and an overactive imagination. Maybe that's true, maybe it isn't. But I didn't come out kicking, screaming, and drawing dragons. All I had was a fixation on the idea of 'I see this thing in my brain, and I want other people to be able to see it too.' So from a very young age I started moving crayons and pencils and markers around bits of paper (holding them improperly to this day, apparently, because none of my teachers bothered to correct me) to try and make this happen. It began with badly proportioned stick figures and slowly evolved from there as I worked through practise and observation to make these barely-coherent scribbles look slowly more like people, dragons, wolves, cows, deer, mountains, trees, clouds, stars, worlds. I draw as well as I do because I decided I wanted to work at it. If I am 'lucky' to have been gifted with any advantages though genetic predispositions or marketable skills lovingly bestowed by divine creative entities, by far the larger part of it all has come from the gift of drive and determination rather than from any sort of luck. Of this I remain firmly convinced.
-Lastly, the 'as well as you' part. While there are some relatively concrete measures by which artistic ability can perhaps be 'ranked,' the whole fixation on artists being better or worse than one another and positioned along some sort of scale of talent feels entirely unrealistic to me. So much more to art has to do with 'different' rather than 'better' or 'worse,' and it feels to me like the world would be a happier place if we weren't all quite so eager to rank everybody as better or worse than everybody else, and more content to celebrate the differences that make each artist unique. There's certainly a place for 'artist X appeals to my own personal preferences more than artist Y' but that's different. That's being honest about the subjectivity involved with art, not trying to force the illusion of objectivity and some absolute concept of value onto it. The second part of this that bugs me is the fixation on comparing one's own drawing ability to mine, or any other specific person's. I art how I art. You art how you art. If you spent all your effort trying to draw 'like me' or 'as well as me,' what is going to be the end result of that? Only ever a copy, a derivative work. For the love of puppies, don't try to draw like me. TRY TO DRAW LIKE YOU. Practise to improve on things that you can actually measure and evaluate somehow, but the focus of art should be on following where your own preferences and abilities and inspirations lead you. If you do that you'll end up with something so much more special.

16. What/who inspires you?
My friends and loved ones. Every artist on my watchlist. Every artwork I have faved or commented on. Every fave, comment, and watch I receive. My friends and loved ones a bit more. Sunsets. Birds. The ocean. Music by BT, Dead Can Dance, Fredrik Miller, Frederic Chopin. Puppies and kittens and lizards. My friends and loved ones still more.

17. Everyone has considered leaving FA once or twice. Have you? Why?
Nope! It is true that FA is by no means perfect, and I've borne distant witness to a number of unfortunate events that have made some people want to leave the site. These incidents sadden me, and have encouraged me to extend my presence to other sites beyond just FA, but I've never wanted to leave myself. FA has been good to me and I've gotten by far the most notice and appreciation for my artwork here. Other furry art sites have their own advantages that I like, but the community here feels the richest and most vibrant to me. FA feels like home, and has brought me enough joy and connections to have earned my loyalty over the years. I'm here to stay! Yay for FA. ^^