New guy in town :)

[asher]

I already posted... but figured I should probably introduce myself properly.

Hi, I'm Asher, or Ash for short (but I always get those darned pokemon associations)

I'm 23, and just recently gave up trying to pretend I was a girl
I've felt like a guy all my life, but I guess I must be pretty dense, because up till a few months ago I just thought "well hey, maybe no one feels EXACTLY like the sex they're born with, it could be totally 'normal' to feel this wrong in my body..."
Art school woke me up.
So I came here to get a little more comfortable I guess, meet some people and find some local resources to get started

So aside from that, I suppose the art school drop there says one other thing about me. My main interests revolve around art. I'm a professional illustrator, just graduated from school a little over a year ago, and have since been working on a video game project and a couple comic projects. But other than my day job/obsession/thing-that's-taken-over-my-life, I love music, movies (horror is my favorite!), cartoons, books/stories, comics, games (but not a HUGE gamer) and... I guess that's about it.

So greetings everyone!

[Janet_Girl]

Hi Ash,

Welcome to our little family. Over 5900 strong. That would be one heck of a family reunion.

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Hugs and Love,
Janet

[annette]

Hi Ash

Welcome to the forum dude.
nice to meet you and I hope you'll find all the comfort you need.
There are a lot of nice guys( and girls) around here to make you a little more comfortable.
I'm looking forward to read your future posts.

hugs
annette

[Devlyn]

Well, it's certainly nice to meet you, Mister........Ketchum??? Sorry, couldn't resist! Hugs, Tracey

[asher]

Haha! I have a feeling that will soon be my new nickname. 

Thanks for the warm welcome ladies!
Seems like a really cool place here, I'm excited to start getting to know people!

[NathanW]

Hello Ash nice to meet you.
I really like art too, when I go to college I'm thinking about taking it, I like video games as well my some of my favourites are : sonic , sims 3 and sims 2 , pokemon.
I like comic books and music as well I think e have alot in common haha.

Luke.

[Linus]

Welcome! Very cool on the artwork stuff. Do you have a public portfolio for those of us who are wannabes to be jealous about?

[asher]

Hey thanks guys
Luke- I also used to be big in the sims and sonic, pretty cool Nice to meet you too! And it seems we do have a good bit in common
Linus- Haha, thanks man! I have an art blog if you'd like to check it out http://dumonchelledraws.tumblr.com/ I've also got a deviantart and a website, but there are links to them on my blog so I'll refrain from link spamming lol.

[Da Monkey]

Welcome buddy, that's some badass art you have there, I'm jealous. You say you're working on a video game project? Do you code as well? Or are you doing the graphics part? Either way that's sweet. I suck at art but I still tried to make a couple of comics back when I was about 13/14 but gave that up, but I still do minor graphic design for websites and Flash stuff hahah.

[asher]

Hey thanks Jay! Yep! I don't do any coding myself no. I work with another guy who's doing all the coding/gameplay/engine building and such. I just do the graphics for it, 2D sprites and such. Graphic design stuff is pretty sweet though, I wish I could do it a lot more successfully than I do haha. It's always a plus to art directors, so good stuff to know.