Cool hobby: Cool hobby?  Define cool. ;P  Uhm.. drawing, designing, playing the drum set, howzzat? =)
Gender: Female
From: Vancouver, BC, Canada (go go go Canada!)

When and how did you start making webpages? anime? those furry animals? Why?

I started making webpages in October of '98, I think... right when I got the Internet.  The Internet opened up a huge new world of art for me, providing access to other fantastic art pages, and encouraging the usage of digital programs to colour artwork.  I was amazed that this huge online art community was out there and that I had suddenly gained access to it!  So, being the little geek I am, I wanted to make a webpage to share my art with everyone too...so.. I did! =)  My first attempts were not exactly aesthetically pleasing, mind you.  I'm proud to say that the Anime Tek webpage was one of the first sites I had stumbled upon ^_^.
I started drawing in the anime style in about grade 10, when a Taiwanese friend of mine brought her comic books to school.  She's a CLAMP fanatic, and I immediately fell for her collection of CLAMP's X1999.  The art is AMAZING!  I can't read Mandarin, so I oogled over the art instead. Sailormoon had debuted in Canada a year ago as well, and I was really glad to be exposed to a different genre of art.  Heavily influenced by Disney, anime was a great change from the simple "kid-oriented" designs and storylines of American animated films and I went on an anime-drawing binge from immediate exposure from it.
Furry animals, or anthropomorphics I started drawing about a year ago when I came across the website Yerf (http://www.yerf.com)  I never knew there was another whole online community for it!  Since I drew a lot of these when I was younger I had no problem  switching over to animals again from humans.  I wanted to join Yerf, drew three furry pictures and went on from there.  I found the furry community much more responsive than the audience for anime, I dunno why.. @_o

Do you ever think you'll start a profession in either one of these fields?

heh no... can't really make a living out of these fields... =(

When were you first exposed to anime/manga? What was your first impression?

My first exposure to anime was in grade 6 in Japan on an overnight stay. I clicked on the hotel tv set and saw what I now know as Sailormoon!  I went "WOW!" because the art style was so much more complicated and detailed than the Disney cartoons.  The characters had bangs, complicated eyes, and violence!  I had no idea what the heck was going on in the story, but the art style had snagged me already.  Unfortunately when I went back to Canada there was a lack of anime resources and the genre fell to the back of my mind for awhile.

First time you picked up a crayon or pencil? (to draw)

Oh I have no idea...uh...my mom says I drew the moment I could hold a writing implement... art runs in the family, I supppose.

Where there any artists that influenced your style? who?

Disney, definitely, I don't know the specific names of the artists.  I guess I have to say CLAMP for anime art as well, but the furries I have no idea where I picked up, and the characters look pretty generic in design anyhow.

What are your site(s) mainly about? why that topic?

Art, design, not much else =)  I've got mostly furry artwork as well as a few humans.  Why?  Well it's the best thing I can do, and I believe sharing stuff with everyone else instead of keeping it to yourself is a great way to improve!  I've gotten tonnes of great critiques over the months I've been online and they've helped quite a bit =)
More and more people are using computers to enhance their artwork. What do you think about that? Is it a good thing or a bad thing? Do you think computers are on a different scale than the regular medium like paint and crayons etc.?
Of course there's no problem with using computers!  It's my favorite medium as well!  Digital artwork is becoming very useful and I believe eventually it'll be considered one of the usual mediums.  No, computer colouring is not on a different scale than paints or crayons.  If an artist wants to master either of the mediums he needs to invest a large amount of time exploring them and learning to use them to his full potential.  Just because it's computer enhanced doesn't mean it's worth any less than a hand-coloured piece.  Some comp colour jobs can take much more time than any hand-coloured piece... it just depends on whether you want to use mediums to their full potential.

Anything you want to say to the websurfers out there? Anything wacky you think not a lot of people know about you? 

Heeeeelloo webburgers!  hehe that just popped into me head.  Anything wacky? Eh not anything I haven't shared online already! =)  Uhm... well I threw some spitballs at my math teacher once heh heh heh he didn't like that too much. ;)

Thanks soooo much!

Thanks for everything, and hope to hear back from you soon!