About the Author
| Name: | Martin A Block |
| Date of Birth: | 20 December 1977 |
| Education: | High-School |
| Glenbard East High School, Lombard, IL | |
| Subject of Study: | Computer Science/Programming |
| Hobbies: | Gaming (PC, PS2, GC), Working on computers. |
Born at Condell Hospital in Libertyville, IL, I started drawing at the age of 3. Ever since then, I have shown excelled abilities in the liberal arts. Over the years, I have grown into art like someone grows into clothes. Then when I was in 7th grade, I became interested in computers. Over the years, I learned about them and grew as they got more powerful.
In 1999, I lost most of my art collection (stuff I had drawn since a way early age). After that, I slowed my drawing down, setting it to just random doodles every now and again. Just recently, I have found that my artistic ability wasn't going to expand any further and thus I gave up drawing. But I have found a talent that I never knew I had. I started to CG. Originally I used Adobe Photoshop 5.5 and a tutorial I found on the net. Now I use Adobe Photoshop 7.0 and are making my own techniques.
I am an avid anime watcher, which is where I get most of my inspiration for coloring, and those are the only types of pictures I know I can color well. My style of CG is in the style of Cartoon Cells (Cell art). That has what I've been working on as of late and I have to say, I have gotten exceedingly good in a short period of time.
