Well, this is my first journal here on FA!

I wanted to post something and thank everyone who is watching me, especially considering I have no work posted. Some of you have been my friends for nearly 15 years, others I barely know at all, and still others fall on some point in between. I appreciate all of you very much and hope you'll enjoy my work when I start posting it here.

I've been drawing on and off for about 17 years. Art is my second career (systems administration being my first) and I agonized over whether I should "retire" from computers despite not yet even being out of my twenties. I'd been thinking about going into animation since I was 15 and finally decided to make the leap. I enrolled in some introductory courses in the fall, and it turned out to be a good choice; recessions are the best time to be in school. I almost certainly would have been laid off from my old job had I kept it to this point, anyway!

Fair warning that I'm not sure as to how much I'm going to post because most of the art I'm doing these days is not furry. As a beginning art student, I am currently doing fairly generic drawing and design projects, so they don't really belong on this site. I used to do a great deal of character artwork, but I might not be able to post anything along these lines for a while, as my coursework keeps me pretty busy.

Just to be clear and to head off anyone's being disappointed, I am not going to post the following:

1) Porn. I don't draw this stuff. It doesn't offend me, but I really don't care for most of it and I think my work would look ridiculous if the characters were anatomically correct.

2) Blatantly fetishistic art. Unless it's something that comes off as fairly innocuous to an untrained eye, I won't draw this stuff, either.

I also abstain from posting memes (unless it's somehow very relevant), and I will not post journals concerning politics. I doubt anyone cares what I think, anyway (nor should they ).

I am not here purely for props. It's great if you like my work, but it's even better to get critique. Please help me to improve my art by pointing out when I go wrong (which is frequently).

I work mostly in traditional media. Themes you're likely to see in my work include sword and sorcery, superheroes, period pieces, and time and space. I draw other things, as well, so there should be something for almost everyone.

Thank you all again for watching me. It really means a lot.

And feel free to say hi anytime!