Hello,

Well here I am, I thought I would do a introduction post, not really done one for any other website so don't know how this will turn out but lets go for it.

I live in London, I have a degree in Business Study's and I currently work administration for the Civil Service, over the 2010s I started getting interested in manga and comics, both mainstream series and independent projects. I had of course been watching anime such as Bleach, Naruto and DBZ as far back as the late 2000s like most boys my age. (I presume some girls too but I was at a single sex 2ndary school)

I grew to enjoy seeing what sort of things people could put onto page, impactful illustrations, and the unique characters, worlds and scenes people could make with ink, pencil or digital art.

I started reading graphic novels near the end of the 2010s and took up drawing as a hobby in around 2018, doing online courses on Unity and working from art books, in 2019 I started uploading onto DeviantArt. It was hard for me, and I would not say I'm a great drawer, I doodled like most kids in school but never really took up art as a subject and by university I had stopped all together. I do regret not studying art for GCSE's because now I really want to draw well but I had years of inactivity before I got more serious, had I worked on it sooner I may now be a better

The COVID lockdown therefore, did give me a good chance to at least get more into it and explore the world of art and animation more, I also took the chance to apply for more 9-5 jobs so I would not have to go back to working in a pub kitchen which I was successful in!

Today I work my office job, drawing where I can, tho I'm a bit short on free time as my job is a long commute and when I get home I'm more in the mood to relax and watch anime than draw. I hope to do my own comic projects in the near future, probably hiring another artist rather than drawing myself but I'd like to mock up my own concept art for them to work off.

My main interests are art, animation, graphic novels, manga+anime, gaming (PC), Tabletop RPG games (Mostly Mutants and Masterminds but also DnD 5E) and this year I even got into Larping which I've really enjoyed and will be doing more off next year.

I was aware of Newgrounds for years and some of my favourite animators did come from here, I'm even supporting Harry Partridge's Patron now. I was drawn into Newgrounds as it's a very creator supportive site, and I want to be there to help support it as a independent platform that fosters talent so here I am. I don't know how much of my own stuff I'll upload I'm not much of an artist myself, I'd like to share some of my commissioned work (credited of course) and see where it goes from there.

This is been my introduction, I look forward to getting to know more people in this site and seeing what it has to offer.

- Arsonist