About Me:

lyrical_sky is my pseudonym for my Sherlock fandom ficcery and art.

Age: 42

Profession in RL: artist (painter, mixed media artist, fine art photographer, and jewelry designer). Unfortunately, due to a severe decline in health that has resulted in crippling physical disabilities and brain damage, I've had no choice but to retire from making art in the traditional way, but I try my best to make do with creating art on my iPad (I highly recommend Inspire Pro for painters; it's as close to real painting as you can get). My fanart is made using a variety of art/painting apps and layers and layers of filters and treatments. Just to be clear, every piece of fanart I make takes several hours. I would never just run a screencap through a couple of filters and post it. It's extremely frustrating that I have no choice but to use these tools (iPad art/painting apps, Photoshop, etc.), and I wish I had more options, but I don't take unnecessary shortcuts when making digital art. Every piece I've posted consists of hundreds of layers of digital applications plus as much 'hand-painting' with my stylus as possible. I used to be an absolute purist when it came to art, but I have found that creating digital art is just as challenging (and just as rewarding, at least when it comes to creating my original art).

Stories and meta musings at AO3.

Stories, fanart, poetry, and meta musings at Livejournal. Occasionally cross-post same at Dreamwidth.

General ranting on Twitter.

My blog All of Tumblr