01. What is your pen name?
XenoIrish

02. What made you choose this name?
The name i used to go by, "Wings of Fire and Light" was too damn long to fit on something i started using. XenoIrish was the new name i came up with because i am Irish, and very Strange.

03. Do you use PC or Mac?
PC, cuz i like to be able to use my machine the way i want, not the way Steve Jobs wants.

04. What programs do you use most often?
Photshop and Illustrator CS3, PaintTool SAI sometimes, and AutoCad

05. Do you use mouse, or tablet?
Tablet, which is a lot weirder to work with then i thought it would be.

06. What color or color combinations do you find yourself using most often?
Depends, but blacks and reds show up a lot

07. What part of a picture do you put most effort into?
The beginning, cuz by the end im normally frustrated.

08. How long does it take you do draw a picture?
Depends on what it is, and how many different times it gets drawn, for example: something sketched, then done well on paper, retraced on the computer could take a loooooong time.

09. Do you keep your rough drafts?
Yup, draw them in pen mostly too so nothing gets lost.

10. What font do you use most often?
Whatever seems to fit

11. When you scan your image, what DPI do you use?
Honestly, i don't know.....*shame

12. Do you do anything else when you're drawing?
TV or a movie

13. Approximately how many pictures do you draw in a month?
Depends on my mood, sometimes i will go months without a finished piece, but i normally sketch something everyday

14. What kind of paper do you draw your pictures on?
Notebooks for the sketches and design work, sketch paper for good stuff.....the computer screen for better stuff.

15. What kind of paper do you use for rough sketches and drafts?
.....dammit i hate questions like this....look up there^

16. How long does it take you to ink something?
Not real long...thats probably one of the quickest steps in my process

17. Do you do comics, or fan comics?
Im working on it.

18. Do you like comics? Are they fun to make?
.....Ask me after i finish a chapter

19. Have you ever submitted anything to a magazine?
No

21. Who are your favorite artists?
Haha.....We Simply don't have the time for a full answer. Check my favorites

22. Do you like anime/manga? If so, what are your favorite series?
Love anime/manga. Berserk's awesome, gundams cool, inuyashas good, FMA, Trigun, Princess Mononoke....i could go on

23. Do you like cartoons/comics? If so, what are your favorite series?
Not two things that should be grouped together....idiot

24. Any artists that you wish you could draw like?
Oh, tons

25. Do you read a lot of books?
haha, yeah. I read a lot....if comics and manga count i read waaaay too much

26. Did you ever buy a book to inspire or teach you to draw?
a few on anatomy and different techniques. But really you gotta find your own style. Thats what makes it unique.

27. Any video games you enjoy?
Most Final fantasy titles, god of war series, Legacy of Kain series, OKAMI, Way of the Samurai....again, something i've devoted waaay too much time and energy too

28. Any favorite characters from video games?
Kain, Raziel, Auron, Gabranth, Basch, Mario, Issun, Amaterasu, Balthier and Fran, Fei/Id, and probably a Bunch i am forgetting

29. Do you have a favorite writer?
Karen Traviss

30. Any books you really enjoy?
Star Wars, cuz i am a nerd

31. Do you draw fanart?
yeah

32. Do you listen to music while you draw?
sometimes, but normally the tv instead

33. Any recommended songs?
Haha...you have no idea....My MP3 collection is over 12,000 strong and growing

34. Any other art websites that you really enjoy?
A few in the gunpla market

35. Are there any websites that you go to everyday?
DeviantART, Mininova, icanhascheezburger, geekologie, wookieepedia, wikipedia, the list goes on and on and on

36. What is your dream website like?
...like the internet when im asleep?

37. Do you like your own art?
No...you think that would motivate me more.....but meh

38. What do you enjoy watching on television?
I watch too much of that too

39. Favorite celebrity?
Fuck this question

40. Favorite color?
Green

41. Favorite food?
Pizza

42. Favorite drink?
Pepsi with ice.....its half my diet

43. Do you like to go shopping? If yes, where? And for what?
I do like to collect the odd trinket here and there....so to answer the question. Here and There, and trinkets

44. Can you cook?
No, i live through my microwave

45. Any devices you use often for email? Any electronic pets?
This questions pretty stupid too....

46. Are you tech-savvy?
Haha yeah. Got my degrees in electronics and i work in the field. So yeah, i get tech.

47. Do you want to become a professional artist?
Not at all....I prefer it as a relaxing hobby, when you turn it into a job it loses its fun.

48. Are there any other jobs you're interested in?
Lotto winner

49. Any other hobbies or skills besides drawing?
Im into a little bit of everything

50. Do you like to watch movies?
Good ones, yes

51. What's your favorite movie?
Can't pick just one.....but Yojimbo's a classic, go watch it.

52. Have you ever entered an art contest?
Not since i was really young

53. When did you start drawing seriously?
when i picked up my first pencil?

54. Do you use references? If so, for what?
If i need to draw something i don't fully understand or a fan art i want to get right.

55. Are you a subscriber? If so, are you a beta-tester?
Nope, not at the moment anyway

56. Do you have a lot of net friends?
No, not really. Got a few and they're great tho.

57. Do you have a lot of friends that also draw?
Not really

58. What time of the day do you usually go online?
After work

59. Do you like to go to chat rooms?
Honestly...i don;t think i've ever been in one

60. Do you have your own computer?
Yeah, normally running 2 or 3

61. What would you say to the person that you admire?
....I admire you....? Depends on the person and what i admire about them....doesn't it

62. Does your mind wander when you draw?
No, but mind wandering leads to drawings

63. Have you drawn poorly because you think too much?
No, i don't think so

64. Do you have any friends who are professional artists?
No, unless you count "graphic artists"....then i guess the answer would be yes

65. Where do you often hang out?
Home, my mind

66. Are there any popular artists that you don't like much? (no need to name names if you don't want to)
I don't really dislike any, unless they're jackasses. But i pity people with talent and no creativity. And thieves deserve to lose their pointer fingers.

67. Are there any situations in which you really don't like being an Artist?
When people assume i can make posters or signs or sculptures and shit for them.....where they get these ideas i'll never know.

68. How about situations that make you love it?
When people like what i draw.

69. What's the one thing that makes you grateful that the internet exists?
It's really the only truely free exchange of ideas and info out there.

70. Is there anything out there that makes you wish the internet didn't exist?
Myspace and facebook

71. What's your first drawing?
.....shit, probably a ninja turtle....i used to draw those all the time when i was like 4

72. Any art you did prior to that?
If it was my first.....the hell kinda question is this?

73. Has your style changed a lot since then?
its gotten better, then worse, then a little better...then a little worse.....etc

75. Have you experienced artist's block before?
sometimes for years at a time

76. If so, how do you usually get out of it?
Normally something happens in my life that throws my mood to the opposite side of the spectrum and frees up a lot of my time.

77. What do you do when you can't get out of it?
Work on other stuff

78. Any people that have influenced you a lot?
anyone who has an imagination and shares that through their work

79. What made you want to start drawing?
I've drawn forever. Not drawing is not an optional.

81. Has anything ever made you want to quit art all together?
when i come back from a long block and find my skills have deteriorated A loooooooooot.

82. What do you think about netiquette?
Karma exists everywhere

83. Have you ever been spammed or trolled?
Nope

86. Do you upload high quality versions of your art submissions, or do you prefer to upload a lower quality?
normally i stick to finished versions.

87. Do you have custom CSS? If so, did you make it yourself?
No, i haven't been into making web pages since the days of good ol' HTML and Java

88. Do you have good vision?
Yes, but from my line of work and all the reading i've done the past few years its getting worse....gotta get me some glasses probably

89. If you can get anyone's autograph, whose would you get?
I never understood why people collect those.

91. Do you like to draw on Oekaki BBS?
Never heard of it

92. Do you have a job?
Yup, i work in electronics

93. Did you take art in school? If so, did you do well? Are you still taking it?
No, i didn't take it in high school cuz i wanted to learn drafting instead.....in hindsight i should have taken art as well....i don't remember any spanish...

94. Have you taken art lessons outside of a school setting?
No

95. Have you ever drawn something just because it was the cool thing to do -- the hip new fad?
Why, are their roving gangs of sketch artists out there harrassing people with unkind characitures?

96. What's your favorite phrase/quote?
the following are from my buddy info:

"Reality doesn't care if you believe it"

"Family is more than blood."

*Quis custodiet ipsos custodes.

*malo more quam fodari

97. Do you present yourself differently online than you do in your real life?
Nope, i am me

98. What's your goal now?
immediate, to finsish this cursed thing. Other goals include making more money, finding a good women, starting and finishing my comic

99. What do you have to say to yourself?
.....Another stupid question

100. Lastly, what do you have to say to everyone who read this?
The person i got this from said "Meh. This was boring, don't do it."....if this was question 1 it would probably save a lot of people a lot of time