Frequently Asked Questions

Any more questions to add? Just leave a comment on this entry and I'll get down to it right away.

What is a koryzio?
The name I go by on most places on the internet. Koryzio is also my main character/persona's name. She is a herrerasaur, though doesn't really look much like a real one at all, and is basically me in cartoon form. My closer friends who have read my Archodian histories will remember Koryzio as a hero from some of the stories (in these histories he's actually a male though, in the Archodian world).



Can I do a collab with you on OC?
I'd love to, but can't. I don't have OpenCanvas. I'm waiting for a Mac version to come out.



How long have you been drawing?
As long as I can remember. Even as a three year old I was making up my own stories that I would illustrate. As I got older I kept it up, drawing anything, on anything, anywhere. I saw some digital art that fascinated me back early 2006 so I decided I'd teach myself to do the same, so as far as digital art goes I am self taught. I started getting real serious about design then and kept working to improve, then in 2008 was able to do art as a subject in college which I continued as a chosen subject this year, so I could learn traditional mediums.



Ugh...you spelt "favourite" wrong.
No way... you Americans are the ones spelling it wrong. XD Aussies spell most things the same way the Brits do, like "colour" & "favourite" etc.



What programs do you use for your digital art?
Well I love Photoshop Elements 3 and ArtRage 2, and now I'm slowly teaching myself to use Illustrator and Pixen (a Mac version of MS Paint) as well. Other programs I use from time to time or have tried before are Corel Painter 2, DrawBerry, DrawIt, EazyDraw, Etegami, Expression 3, GIMP, Inkscape, LineForm, PaintBrush (Mac version of MS Paint), Pencil, and Vector Designer, which are all available for Mac, but they aren't terribly exciting.



What other websites are you on?
DA is the site I spend the most time on, but I also use these from time to time. There are also plenty of other places you may find me that I can't recall at the moment... my accounts are usually named "Koryzio".

Threadless: [link]
DragonAdopters: [link]
ArtGrounds Account: [link]
LiveJournal: [link]
Webpages Designs I've Made: [link] [link] [link] [link] [link]



Do you have an FA account?
Yeah, but I don't like FA, it's weird. [link]



What do you specialize in drawing?
Trying to improve in everything, and try to draw as large a variety of things as possible. Most of the time I'm sketching up dragons and dinosaurs or fishes.



Will you draw yiff/p0rn for me?
No. Duh.



Do you do art exchanges?

I used to do art exchanges a BUNCH at a time, but I've found many of them to be kind of unreliable. I entered Paleo twice but did not get any return art either time. Very dissappointing. So I'll just stick to DAX (with the occasional GAX, Sketch, and Equine) now.

If you are interested in the exchanges, it's where everybody will enter one of their characters and then each gets an assignment to draw someone else's, like a Secret Santa/Chris Kingle deal.

If you like drawing these sort of critters, you really should join! There isn't many artists doing these things anymore, and they're really very fun! Problem is, there are dozens of others that have already died (Canine, Avian, Hybrid, Reptile, Exotic, Lapine, Fur, etc.) because there wasn't so many artists entering. These are the ones that I am aware of that are still working.

Dragon Art Exchange (DAX) - [link]
Gryphon Art Xchange (GAX) - [link]
Paleo Art Exchange (PAX) - [link]
Original Sketch Exchange - [link]
Equine Art Exchange - [link]
100x100 Exchange - [link]
Horror Art Exchange - [link]
My Little Pony - [link]
Dragon Swap - [link]
Wolf Art Exchange (WAX) - [link]
Anthro Art Exchange - [link]
Conbadge Art Exchange (CAX) - [link]





My Favourite DA Artists
You have GOT to check out these guys' work, it's absolutely AWESOME! I get a lot of inspiration and endless hours of joy from these fabulous artists.

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Favourite NON-DA Artists
John Howe (LotR artist), Alan Lee (LotR artist), James Gurney (paleo artist and author of Dinotopia), and whoever did the covers on the European versions of the Redwall books...