Well, here I am, a freshly-minted member of deviantArt. Why, you ask? To be honest, it's primarily so that I can organize my favorite artists. I've always had an interest in creating art, but the standard refrain was "I wish I could draw". I have this spacial concept deficit that makes my pen-and-paper sketches look pretty weird. I also have a slight addiction to the Yuri/Shoujo genre of manga and Visual Novels (aka Eroge). As writing fiction is my actual job, there has been many a time I have had this conversation with myself:
Me: "Ooooh, this plot would go great in a manga!"
Self-Censor: "You can't draw, dingbat."
Me: "What a waste