Not sure yet what I want to put in here....<br /> I've always been creative.... but was easily frustrated with my lack of abilities.  The old adage "practice makes perfect" irritated me to no end.  Enter adolescence &amp; young adulthood, and an alphabet soup mixture of labels applied to me by the "good old" docs.  After being turned into a zombie by well-intentioned doctors and slowly pulling myself out of that dead-feeling place they left me in, I realized the only one who could truly help me - was me.<br /> As the fog cleared, I turned to the one thing I knew would help.... artwork.  Yet, again, I was frustrated.  But this time I was determined... I wanted to be a normal human being again, and using my artwork as a method of expressing myself was the key.  I quickly outgrew a free program I found - VCW Vicman's Photo Express.  After a bit of research, I decided the next step was adobe photoshop.  Yet, still, I was frustrated.  I was in love with the styles of Boris &amp; a few others, and I wanted to try to recreate that magical mystical feeling.  I knew there had to be a way beyond painting by hand (which, given my lack of living space, would have been nigh on impossible - not to mention my lack of abilities once more).  More research.... and I discovered poser. <br /> Now here was something I knew I could use - but OH MY!  all those buttons and terms I had no idea what meant.  My first person turned into a pretzel.  Slowly, with a lot of trial and error, I learned about the dials, and started figuring things out.  7 years later, I look back on it all and go "wow.  Look how far I've come - and look how much I still have to learn!"  I've since added Vue 6, 7, and now 9.5inf into my workflow, and have loved it from the start =D<br /> As for the zombie.... she's gone now.  And I refuse to allow her to return.  I will forever be grateful to the wonderful creators of photoshop, poser, and vue for making available the tools I needed to be able to fully express myself, and to all the artists that I've watched over the years - you give me hope, inspiration, and the confidence to keep trying.<br /> Follow my facebook page! https://www.facebook.com/pages/Midnight-Moon-Designs/<br />