About the Artist
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Orin Drake is a shiny-obsessed, geeky, disturbed
individual. But I just have so much fun that way.
Shiny things were always
attractive, of course. As they always are for
someone with no attention span or chases after moving
objects--especially if they're shiny and moving. I stumbled
into jewelry making by complete accident, as also often
happens. Always an artist, I'd been drawing,
painting and sculpting for quite some time when I
stumbled upon some people doing jump ring
chainmail. So I tried. And I tried some
more. And added beads. Then the worst
possible thing happened: I was encouraged. I don't
think it will ever stop now.
When I'm not exploring
the arts, I'm enjoying the particularly dorky and
hilarious endeavors of my Kingdom Hearts parody voice acting
group, OrgLIX (and our
spin-off and Crisis
Core-centric Crisis
Perverted) where I direct, edit, mix, and do a
good deal of writing (and often with my writing partner,
the also geekily
talented SchalaKitty).
I also enjoy music quite
a bit. Enough to make
my own, at least. I also do a good bit
of writing, mostly fiction with a touch of scifi
and horror. Non-fiction can be found at my
LiveJournal, but... you more or less probably do
not need to know these things.
If there's ever actually
a time when I'm not actively doing something, then I am
indulging in video
games, if not already painfully and blatantly
obvious. I'm also quite an "action
figure enthusiast", mostly when it comes to
transforming robots or figures linked to certain
Square-Enix video games. If you ask me about my My
Little Pony collection, though, I will ignore you.
Most importantly, I
enjoy what I do. Even the pieces that take
absolutely forever and give me many problems, cuts and
bruises make me happy. I know that many artists
far surpass my skills, that they use much more expensive
materials than I do... but I do damn good work and I'm
not going to be humble about that. Viva la
geekdom.
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