(in other words, pointless babble about me)
Please note I put this profile up here because I am constantly getting e-mails from people asking about me . There is more than enough info up here about me, you really don't need to know anything else. I appreciate all the nice e-mails I get, but I really just don't have time to answer them alI, so please don't be offended if I don't reply to everyone.
To The Lads : I *have* a very nice boy friend who I love dearly, so please no more e-mail offers, thanks all the same ^^;;;;;;

Name :  Rachel S. Young
Web alias : Artoki
Age : 22
Birthday : December 2nd (Sagittarius)
Nationality : English
Location : Wolverhampton (Wednesfield)
Basic description : Quiet tall I guess, hazel (i.e. multicolored.Gray-green with browny/gold flecks) eyes, very pale skin, long dark brown hair that reaches aalllmost down to my waist and that keeps getting in my eyes, grr!!. Usually wearing reds and blacks.
Current Pets : None.
Current 'Job' :  Webcomic Colourist and Freelance artist.

General stuffs I love :   My boyfriend (ahhh, the cheesyness!), my computer! videogames, drawing/painting/CGing/animating, wolves, vampires, anything weird, anime, cels,Vanyel, villainous bishounen ^_~, internet, lightning, feathers, F1 racing, cosplay, good films/theatre, sleeping, money, & being grouchy and cynical.

Currently (When I have time I T_T) ... :
Current commissions : 4 X_X
Current Projects : Too many to count ><
Current Watching (anime): Naruto, Full Metal Alchemist, PeaceMaker Kurogane, Monster, Samurai Shamploo, Kyo Kara Mou...lot's of stuff ^^;
Current Reading (manga) : Violinist of Hamle
Current Reading (web comics): Drowtales , VG Cats, Penny Arcade , ctrl+alt+del , MegaTokyo, ai-no- demon, Saturnalia , Arcana
Current Reading (stories) : Juxtapose Fantasy, Re-readin 'Exile' by R.A.Salvatore
Currently Playing (videogames) : Wild Arms 3, Re-playing Blood Omen: Legacy of Kain
Currently Playing (online game) : none *sob*
Currently Listening (music) : just about anything, I'm in random music mode at the mo.

Current main obsessions :
1 : Writing my comics XD

2 : Drowtales

3 : Shinsengumi

Favorite stuffs :
Anime series : So hard to choose T_T Kenshin / Full Metal Alchemist atm
Anime movie : Vampirehunter D
Manga : Angel Sanctuary
Videogames : Vagrant Story / FF7/ Ico / Castlevania series
Anime characters : Seishirou, Alucard, Subaru, Kai, Vash, Iruka, Kiba, Shikamaru, Sora(hack//Sign) Dilandau, Yuzuriha Nekoi, D, Ferio, Kenshin, Saitou, Sanosuke, Okita (peacmaker)
Videogame characters : Sydney, Vincent, Auron, Selphie, Sephiroth, Alucard, Zed, Bridget, Ino.
Other characters : Vanyel, Lestat, Armand, Raistlin, Tasslehoff, Spike, Drizzit, Hadrian, Chirinide.
Colour : Red
Number : 6
Animal : Wolf !! (& horse's, dogs, cats, tigers, - well all animals really!)
Food : Mints, mashmellows, cheese, POCKY.
Fantasy artist : Larry Elmore
Anime/Manga artists : Ayami Kojima
Fanartists/non professionals: GlassShard !! (worship! The gal's a genius! check her site!), Saint (does all my favorite oekaki's)
Authors: Mercedes Lackey, Weis & Hickman, Anne Rice, Tom Holt, R.A.Salvator, Robert Jordan
Word: Bobbins (O_o Huh?? Yeah, I know, having a favorite word is *weird* but don't you think it's a great word! Bobbins! Bobbins! Bobbins!!!)
Wants most: Top five:-
1) To see my own story ideas in anime/manga and videogame format.
2) More talent
3) To go to Japan
4) A horse ^___^.
5) A whopping great big old fashioned gothic-mansion-castle type thing with servants and big evil looking gates, and a funky black lamborghini with leather seats and ... err getting a tad carried away now ^^;;;

Pet Peeves stuffs : Badly dubbed anime and games, football , videogames about sport (what's the point...go outside and play for real duh), monsterseed (really naff game ...don't get me started!), speed bumps, buses, Huuuuuge bookstores that only devote one shelf to fantasy, ppl who are mean to animals, having to update my website, ppl bugging me when I'm drawing, myself, being wrong, meaningless modern art, ppl who like meaningless modern art and claim it means something, putting a price on art, downloads that take foreeeevvvvvvveeerrrrr, embarassing questions ( I can never find an answer) anything beige *ick!*, emptying my inbox, shifting goalposts, cheap food, people who drink/smoke and then complain they are skint, being skint, talk shows, living in Hull, not getting games till months after USA and Japan...or worse still not getting them at all!! Waa! - - Oh man, I could rant about things I hate forever! I think I'll quit for now. Maybe I'll do a rant page or something!

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(above) My first attempt at cosplay was of 'May' from 'Guilty Gear X2'. Although I didn't finish the costume entirely, I still wore it at Aya Again 2003 as a floor costume. None of my photos came out (curses the lighting at Aya><), so I owe a big Thank You to Skirmish who was kind enough to send me a photo he took of me ^_^ And also to the offical Aya site from which I pinched teh second photo X3 DAmn, was my costume glow-in-the-dark-orange or what?! Lol^^;; I had several other costumes I was working on including Asuka, Meroko, Aeris and Merelu that I didn't have time to finish ( I think I was a bit over ambitious, lol) but it's just as well since all three charas were being played by other ppl when I got to the con X_x