Ohh, neat idea! I look forward to seeing how this turns out.
And it's
my turn:
1) How long have you been making graphics?I could be remembering wrong, but if I look back at some of my oldest stuff on my computer... they date back to 2007. I think.
And it's really funny to see them now. I mean, I still have a soft spot for my early stuff... but I love the more recent stuff, well,
more.

The real funny thing of it all, is that the change was pretty abrupt. I forget exactly how long it took, or when it started to change... but there was a glaringly obvious difference. Want proof? Here ya go!
(this is just a sample. I have tons more examples, if anyone is curious)1) The Mighty DucksI went from this set:

to this!

For...
2) Let's have a Narnian examplethis, my
first ever avvy:

to this:

See what I mean?!
2) What photoshop program do you use (Photoshop, Gimp, etc.)?Corel Paint Shop Pro X2
I might have tried other things for a short amount of time, though. Can't remember.
3) What kind of graphics do you like to make?Whatever strikes my fancy, I suppose. Sometimes I'm more in the mood to make matching sets. Other times I go through a phase on making wallies. I've made a few banners (related to my books). And this year, I've taken to making "stand alone" avvys quite often. (in the past, if I made an avvy, I wanted it to be in a set. felt less awkward. now I don't care as much about being picky)
I tend to make stuff on the following subjects:
-my books that I'm writing
-Narnia
-other movies
-tv shows
4) What inspires you to make graphics?I guess it's like with my writing life... anything and everything inspires me. It could be a song I heard, something I saw (film, tv, theatre), experienced (camp, VBS, plays), read. It really doesn't matter. An idea comes... I run with it. It's really that simple. That said, I get quite a few ideas (and run the gamut of emotions) when looking here in the FA, or in Non-Narnian in the SO.
Winterlife's question:Up until about... a year or two ago (?) I didn't even really use textures that much... if at all. It's a more recent thing for me to do. Now, with
that settled...
how many I use varies depending on either the piece, or my mood. Sometimes I don't use any. Other times it's one or two. And still others, it's a whole mess of them... so that I lose count!
If and when I use them, I tend to use ones by
hyaline12 and
wunder, the most. But I use other people's too. And some of my own! (though, i'm still learning how to make my own) I also use a lot of the features on my program... a LOT. Hope that answered your question!
