So this is my profile. People use these to show themselves off and make themselves look good. In all honesty, that's one thing I have the most difficulty with. But I can try, I suppose....

I was born in the early 1980s in one of those little seaside villages in Connecticut which used to survive on the fishing industry and now survive on tourism. The sort of place that's good for growing up in and great for having a family and spectacular for retirement, but heaven help you if you're in your late teens/early twenties and looking to stretch your wings.

Art, writing and music always figured heavily in my life from a very early age. I owe a LOT to the support of my art teachers in the 7th and 8th grades, but chose to focus on music and singing in high school; my art classes I took on Saturday mornings at local academies. After graduating high school with the class of 2000, I worked odd jobs, took some more non-matriculated art classes, did a year of history at the University of Connecticut, then moved across the ocean to Edinburgh, Scotland in 2003. Three more years studying history at the University of Edinburgh taught me a lot, not least of which being that I wasn't going to get a job I enjoyed with a degree in history. I took a year-long access course in chemistry, maths and physics at a local college, then enrolled at Telford College in 2007 for a two-year HND in architectural technology.

In the meantime, I've maintained my focus on art, music and writing. I taught myself how to use Photoshop creatively, a process that was boulstered when I picked up my first Wacom Graphire tablet in 2005. My style still largely revolves around hand-drawn pieces scanned into the computer, but I've begun to experiment with painting directly into Photoshop. On the writing side, I have a few concepts I'm working into full-length novels or graphic novels (in particular on this front is Entropy, which nearly made a transition into video-game format for the Dare To Be Digital competition in 2007 before being committee-altered into the 38 Degrees game concept). In addition, I maintain a partially in-character blog to share my experiences playing the MMORPG Eve Online. I still sing, though not in any professional sense, and play with synthesisers and audio-processing software in what little spare time I have left.

Currently, I'm looking for a job in the graphics/game design/comics industries, living in a small flat near the waterfront in Edinburgh, sharing the space with two friends and too many books. I'd like to say I have a cat, too, but there's no room for it here.