Blitz do it so i do it
do this 8 things about yourself meme but only in regards to the self in the furry fandom/internet life/art


1. My first-ever screenname was Cheeky87. my dad made it for me and i was like LOL K COOL!!! i don't know how old i was, but i've been using computers [always mac] for like forever. god, AOL. i don't miss it.

2. yeah i used to draw a lot more back before i was at all decent at it. i'm not saying i'm some Dürer or anything but i have gotten a LOT better than i was in like 9th grade. but now i don't draw as much. it used to be MY LIFFFEEE. now it is notsomuch. :|

3. i don't really know when i first learned of furries, but i've never really considered myself one. iunno. anyway my first self-representational animal character was a blue-ringed octopus. omg 2003
http://us-p.vclart.net/vcl/Artists/.....g/holydiva.jpg
http://us-p.vclart.net/vcl/Artists/...../Octottack.jpg
http://us-p.vclart.net/vcl/Artists/.....ng/needing.JPG god thats so gay/cute.
...which then evolved into a blue-ringed octopus-wolf.
http://us-p.vclart.net/vcl/Artists/.....FleanceFly.jpg [still 2003]
http://us-p.vclart.net/vcl/Artists/.....ng/October.gif [tentacle-mane optional i guess]
http://us-p.vclart.net/vcl/Artists/.....arshQueens.jpg
AND THEEEENNN the Bectopus started fading out and my first 'real' selfcharacter thing that i sat there and thought about was Ashlander, which was my internetname for a long time.
http://us-p.vclart.net/vcl/Artists/.....shlanderCS.jpg hell yeah!!! that is still from 2003. you can possibly see the similarities between that thing and Bombat, yes?
http://us-p.vclart.net/vcl/Artists/.....Wong/Gang2.jpg awww, throwback.
http://us-p.vclart.net/vcl/Artists/...../LikeFroof.jpg
ok i'll stop. ALL of that is by  vivadawolf. ....and it's all old - she's gotten even better go look *_*

4. uhhh, what else. um. i don't... uh. wellll.. i don't really ever do digital art any more. i just don't really know how to navigate my way around photoshop very well, i feel. i love LOOKING at digital art and i totally respect people who can actually DO it but i am not one of those people. i'd die without paper and pencils. i used to do a lot of digital art, and some of it was actually kinda cool:
http://us-p.vclart.net/vcl/Artists/...../Perpetual.jpg but i don't know how to do this any more 8C

5. apparently, judging from viva's VCL, i've been called Azzy since 2003 at least. back then it was somehow derived from Ash/Ashlander... i don't remember how it first came about at all but i always liked it and i've kept it!

6. i hate hate hate hate using charcoal. i love getting messy, i love paint and ink like nobody's business [also actual dirt, i love digging around and flopping around in grass]. but i cannot STAND feeling dusty. charcoal and chalk are dusty and horrible. the same goes for newsprint - i avoid touching newspapers at all costs. eglhgfdshugeuhj hate.

7. i used to view myself as a therian. a polywere, specifically - so there were three different sides to myself that i represented with three different azzies: the wolfdogthing that i could NEVER stay consistent with the design of [ http://us-p.vclart.net/vcl/Artists/.....g/LesLoups.gif ALL those top 3 were me, lol http://us-p.vclart.net/vcl/Artists/.....TheAzzWolf.gif http://us-p.vclart.net/vcl/Artists/.....ander/Neue.jpg ET CETERA], a black leopard [ http://us-p.vclart.net/vcl/Artists/...../Ashlander.jpg ], and a polar bear. http://us-p.vclart.net/vcl/Artists/.....estionMark.jpg

8. god with all these links and stuff this is getting waaaay too tl;dr. i'm running out of things to say anyway. ....7 is a better number than 8, i'm stopping now.