hai. i got this one from @beuxpatawn while i was looking through the journalmeme tag. yay yippee

1. How many usernames have you had? (You don't have to share them!)

About 6 i've used for main accounts, but ive used countless others for private or side accounts. Lycosiday is my current "main" username

2. What does your current username mean?

It's the scientific name for wolf spider but with a Y at the end instead of an E. Wolf spiders are my favorite kind of spider!

3. What is the first program you used to make digital art?

an app called Artflow I installed on my mom's tablet. I still have all the art I made on there :3

4. Where did you first start posting your art?

Deviantart

5. What is the first piece of media you drew fanart for?

Pokemon probably? I've been a pokemon fan basically my entire life. My sister was a fan before I was born so all her pokemon stuff got passed down from my other sister, my brother, and to me, including a how to draw pokemon book.

6. Who was your first self-insert/persona/fursona? What did they mean to you?

My first fursona was a brown wolf named Eclipse. I was still an Egg at the time, but I still count Eclipse as one of the names I've gone by because I genuinely really wanted to go by it, even if no one else wanted to call me that. I still hold Eclipse close to my heart and I want to draw it more. I sort of redesigned it in the form of Lycosiday, a wolf/spider hybrid fursona that's named after my username, just like how Eclipse inspired my original online username.

7. Who is your current self-insert/persona/fursona? How are they different to your first?

My current fursona is Sincerely, which is the cat/rabbit thing you can see everywhere on my profile. Sincerely's a lot smaller than Eclipse, has wildly different lore attached and is a much simpler design.

8. What/who inspired you to be an artist?

My sister is the reason I started drawing in the first place, but I started getting serious about art because of Ava G's FNAF animations on youtube.

9. What tools are integral to your current workflow? (e.g. Programs, brushes, references.)

I'm forever a Firealpaca user!!!! Firealpaca's Analog brush is my darling beloved and is the biggest reason I haven't gone to a different program. No other program with a brush anything like Analog has that brush be affected by anti-aliasing in the same way and it makes me insane. I use this brush with anti-aliasing ticked off and that's one of the core parts of the way i use it! solid colors make my life so much easier