For those who don’t know me, I'm a 30 year old (as of 2013) artist living in the UK. Here’s a few short bios from the interweb to get you started before I begin posing in this new blog:

From Organic Metal:

Born in Kent , England in 1982. I’d describe myself as a freelance illustrator and designer typically creating manga inspired character designs, although throughout the years I’ve crossed over into graphic design, photography and most recently, tattoo art.

From Squidoo:

After graduating from the University of Creative Arts 2006-2009 he was awarded a 1st Class BA Hons Degree and began working on high quality art and design projects for 100s of clients for years. This type of work Included:

* Hand Drawn & Digital Illustration for video games, books, magazines, covers, posters, web
* Character & Mascot Design
* Advertising Illustration and Graphic Design
* Book Layout & Design
* Logo and corporate ID
* Posters, Banners, Leaflets, Flyers, CD Art, Stationary
* Web Design, Photoshop, HTML, CSS, Wordpress, Dreamweaver
* 1-1 Photoshop Tuition
* Photography & editing

From Wikipedia:

Ben Krefta (born October 10, 1982 in the UK) is a freelance manga style illustrator & graphic artist.

Krefta has created several ‘how-to’ books on the topic of drawing manga, including ‘The Art of Drawing Manga’ (2003), ‘Step by Step Manga’ (2004), 'Digital Manga' (2014) and was also one of three winners of 2004’s ‘Character Design’ category at the International Manga and Anime Festival (IMAF).

Krefta currently works on a wide variety of art and design projects including: advertising, promotional artwork, web design and specializing in character design using a combination of traditional media and Photoshop. Some examples of these works along with more information on Krefta can be found at Organic Metal.

Interests and hobbies:

• Art - 
  • character design, concept art, graffiti, galleries, comics, lighting effects, photography, digital design, sexy art, tattoo art
• Music-
  • chillout, dance, electro/synth, chillstep, liquid drum & bass, euphoric trance, game/movie soundtracks and modern classical, classical crossover, new age, pop punk, some rock
• Science stuff-
  • physics, space, technology
• Debating philosophy and ethics, theorizing about the universe, and existence
• Internet forums & Blogging
• Finance & Business
• Sports-
  • Climbing/bouldering, Table tennis, snooker & pool, darts, bowling, gym training, swimming, tennis, basketball, softball, bike riding, skateboarding, frisbee, kite flying, shooting, air hockey, martial arts and MMA
• Movies-
  • Sci-fi, action, thrillers in particular
• Anime, manga and comics
• Japan
• Video games
• Psychology-
  • Learning about people's, their beliefs, standards and opinions, behaviours, personalities
• Stand up comedy
• Personal development, life hacking, bettering myself, self-analysis
• Board games-
  • Current Favs include: Blokus, scrabble, pictionary, boggle, poker
• Modern Fashion, Furniture and architecture (with a sci-fi edge)
• Jamming on Keyboard, Music Creation
• Cars & Driving