| Hello, I'm Russ and a newer deviator here. Have been into art on the computer and created with the computer for just a few years but have a much longer history, prepare for possible boredom... Have been a creative for about 50 years, drawing, painting and designing things. My longest and most constant interest has been in modelmaking, every kind of subject, from ships to planes and vehicles , space and railroading, most scales and mediums. Along the way, had become a Electronics Engineering Tech and worked at IBM and later Intel. During these years, changed from working on hardware to planning it as a graphic layout designer. If you have a post 1992 processor in your computer, I probably have drawn some of the "parts" that are inside of that, along with the efforts of about 600 very talented souls. Used vector and CAD tools for all that time and even developed some automation editing routines for them. Along the way, acquired a great side interest in astronomy and spent long hours at the telescope creating color sketches of the planets and deep space objects and instructing others how to do this as a alternative or an addition to astrophotography and later to CCD imaging. By night drawing the grand sizes of the cosmos and by day the sub-micron world of the microchip, and even a few hours sleep here and there in our normal scale world. Recently beginning to concentrate on digital art and of course soon had DA bookmarked and reading and have procrastinated two full years to join, and hopefully not two more to start filling a gallery. Would like to first bring in a few recent pictures of older skills in created models, just a selection of them and then start on the current works. I'm doing and feeling ok with things like photomanipulation, basic landscapes and pictures of machines and structures. Where I hope to gain creativity, critique and methods from all of you is in things like creating characters, cartooning, and living subjects in general - both in human and animal and some of the unique combinations of both that I was stunned to find here. Also fascinated as well in mythical or not-so-mythical creatures in general, and dragons in particular. A further long-term wish is to become more versed in both 3D drawing tools and projects plus animation. I'm eager to learn, read everything I can find - and you have some magnificent tutorials here, I wish you all could have been there to help when I used to write very dry tech manuals and Engineering presentations! Finding lots of ideas, help, fun and inspiration here and hope to contribute in return soon. Please be patient as I'm still learning how things happen here, somewhat different from past experiences. Am a bit shy, and also can become very distracted if a good project comes along and have to sometimes catch up with missed communications. Prepare for apologies here. 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Thanks for the fave!! 
