I'm a 31-year-old married female living in northern Michigan. I've been drawing my whole life. I have been on Side 7 for a couple weeks or so, but I just now decided to check out the forums. I had 4 years of high school art, a few months private tutoring after that, and on Aug. 27, 07 I start classes at Alpena Community College to get my associates degree in art and then if things go well I MIGHT transfer down to U of M to take all their art courses. I put college off too long, it's time to stop procrastinating. I am a little goth, a lot shy, and even more weird, lol. I have 5 tattoos: tribals, wolves and Heartagrams (I am obsessed with HIM). My fav. animals are wolves, dogs, rats and dragons (I know, THEY don't exist, lol). I like to use Prismacolor wax-based colored pencils, Photoshop, Paintshop Pro, acrylics. I also make dream catchers, do cross stitch, make bead jewelery, paint T-shirts, and drybrush ceramics. I also like to write, read, make websites, listen to music, watch movies, swim, travel. Okay, I think that's enough of my whole life's history, lol. Great to meet you all!

Welcome aboard! You certainly have an eclectic array of interests. I've never been very good at making dreamcatchers myself - the webbing always ends up more of a net - but I always enjoy them. Congratulations on going back to school! I'm considering going to art college in a few years, myself. I'd love to hear more on how you do there. Feel free to hop in on any thread. It's good to have you around.

Welcome aboard. Nice to see new people on both the site and the forums.

-- BK

hello there welcome aboard *gives you a peanutbutter filled cookie

Thanks everybody! ~eats cookie~

"the webbing always ends up more of a net"

Jinx, you have to pull the string real tight and hold it that way. Do you use the wax-coated string? That holds in place better.

Welcome to Side 7, Valolove.

Yes, dragons do exist, though it does depend on what one means by dragon.

i hope dragons exist! hi, everybody. i'm new here, too. my real name is Haley, but i chose a weird made-up name for my first and last names. Nyx is a character i made for a Invader Zim fanfiction, so, naturaly, i used her name. i like to write and read. i love to draw, too, even though i'm not very good! i'm on the computer all the time, and i found this site. most of the other times, i'm on fanfiction.com or braingle. they pander to my intellectual and Invader Zim needs! i like Artemis Fowl, Abarat (by Clive Barker), i am not a big fan of Harry Potter, and a couple ships that desperatly need to be sunk are Harry/Hermione, Minerva/Artemis, Zim/Gaz, Dib/Tak, Dib/ZIM pukes, and...that's pretty much it.

I'll give virtual pie and tacos to whoever guesses my approximite age by using the titals and character names listed above!...Unless Gir already ate the tacos...