ABOUT COBALT

Art Credit: @softncrisp (Twitter)

Art Credit: @DIGNOTIONS (Twitter)

When did I find my love for the furry fandom?

I first became aware of the furry fandom back in 2019 when a friend of mine at the time introduced me to the concept and shared some art of his fursona with me. I found the idea of creating my own character with my own design, my own expression, and my own representation to be super interesting, and in November of that same year, I created my first fursona, a raccoon named Callan.

Eventually, I created a second fursona, a black-and-red protogen named Polaris, but after about two years of having these characters, I felt they no longer fit me, that I had "grown out" of them -- so I set forth with creating a new fursona, a blue and purple skunk that would eventually become known as Cobalt. Cobalt has been my primary fursona since 2023!

Art Credit: @WeaselDumb

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How did I get my interest in graphic design?

My passion for graphic design began not with furry, but with motorsports: when I downloaded the painting program paint.net for the first time at 11 years old with the desire to learn how to make monster truck paint schemes for the digital gaming platform Roblox. Over the years, my interests eventually expanded to include stock cars, and with it came a desire to create paint scheme concepts for other games, such as NASCAR Racing 2003 Season.

For more about my history with graphic design and motorsport, check out the Cobalt Creative Design Portfolio (linked at the bottom of the home page).

The blending of my interest in anthropomorphic animals and my interest in graphic design was a natural fit; the artistic expression that inherently comes with being a furry and creating a fursona and all of the incredible artists of all sorts of mediums are such an integral part of this fandom and they are the foundation for what makes the furry fandom the wonderful community it is. Eventually, this combination of the furry fandom and graphic design led to me creating banners and headers for furries on social media platforms, a tradition that I continue to this very day!

What are some of my other interests?

I have always had a passion for motorsports, if something has four wheels and an engine in it, there is a very high likelihood that I enjoy it. Additionmally, I have a particular love for photography of any kind; whether it be nature photography, racing photography, or anything in between, if it involves operating a camera then I'll take a liking to it. I also enjoy writing and statistics; I spend a lot of time looking through statistics throughout the world of NASCAR and Monster Jam and I enjoy sharing my thoughts and opinions on the trends I find.

In the academic world, I am currently in college, where I am studying political science at Arizona State University.

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