A New Passion

Who says yuo can't teach an old dog new tricks?

Sunday, July 26, 2009 by skyzyk | Discussion: Community

Hello to everyone. I joined Wincustomize under 1 year ago. Here I found a wonderful new world of desktop customization. I am on permanent disability, due to a work related accident, and I spend most of my time in front of my laptop. What a wonderful idea, to customize my computer. I started downloading all kinds of things and then finally bought the whole show and package. After a while I began to feel a little guilty because I wasn't contributing to the community, I was only downloading, at a fair speed, I might add. I'd become a desktop customization junkie. I've always been intrigued by Art and Digital Art. I decided to finally do something with all the programs I installed and never really used (Photoshop, Corel PSP X2, Pint.Net, etc) because I never thought I could produce anything near the quality of what I was seeing here. There's an old saying from where I come from. "Try It, You'll like it!" SO I did and I did like it. At 52 years young, I've found a new passion. I started submitting my works a little under three weeks ago and I already have over 1.200 downloads. WOW was I ever surprised by the acceptance and encouragement from some artists and skinners. It made me feel like a real part of the community andfor this I THANK ALL ARTISTS FOR YOUR ENCOURAGEMENT, in my new found passion Thanks to all and for those who would like to or want to give it a try I say "Go For It", or as Nike says, "Just Do It"! Ciao, skyzyk aka Gary
Lantec
Reply #1 Sunday, July 26, 2009 10:02 AM

Glad to have you here Gary

Jafo
Reply #2 Sunday, July 26, 2009 11:31 AM

and for those who would like to or want to give it a try I say "Go For It", or as Nike says, "Just Do It"!

Yep...that's all it takes....a bit of motivation and interest....and before you know it you're addicted...

DrJBHL
Reply #3 Sunday, July 26, 2009 11:52 AM

Really great to have such a positive new guy! Glad you like it here, Gary! Karma to you!

boss0190
Reply #4 Sunday, July 26, 2009 12:46 PM

Keep at it Gary. You're stuck here now.

storm347
Reply #5 Sunday, July 26, 2009 2:22 PM

yeah no matter how hard you try to get out we will just pull you back in welcome to wc

skyzyk
Reply #6 Sunday, July 26, 2009 4:52 PM

Thank you all so very much for your comments.

amitsaran
Reply #7 Sunday, July 26, 2009 5:09 PM

KARMA to you my alredy dear friend, glad to see you sharing your feeling as this is done only by people who feel that everyone here is their own and they can or infact should share what they feel about this great place.

Your work is awesome glad you like it here n keep up the good work !!  All the best 

vStyler
Reply #8 Sunday, July 26, 2009 5:28 PM

Good to have you around

 

Pint.Net

 

Sounds like my kinda app!

sydneysiders
Reply #9 Sunday, July 26, 2009 6:08 PM

Hi Gary....I've been watching your wallpapers....

there's a comp on at the moment you know...if you happen to be inspired by a summer idea...   

AnneMarie
Reply #10 Sunday, July 26, 2009 6:44 PM

Welcome Gary!! I too found my way here and quickly became addicted.. I buy most everything I can. I do it to help support this great Community and the very talented artists here.

Again WELCOME to this great site and keep coming.. this site is Great at continously feeding our Customizing Addiction.

 

Enjoy your stay here and we hope to see you around for a while.

 

Anne

WOM
Reply #11 Sunday, July 26, 2009 6:44 PM

  Sure glad you changed your mind from your previous post, Another for the Wall Of Shame.

Frankief
Reply #12 Sunday, July 26, 2009 10:30 PM

No shame here, no pain no gain! Glad you are happy to be here and hope you don't ever loose your enthusiasm. Practice make perfect etc etc! What you do should be fun and for your own pleasure. If it pleases other too, so much the more pleasure for you!

bk13GarbageMan
Reply #13 Sunday, July 26, 2009 11:24 PM

Good to have You here!

skyzyk
Reply #14 Monday, July 27, 2009 7:10 PM

amitsaran
KARMA to you my alredy dear friend, glad to see you sharing your feeling as this is done only by people who feel that everyone here is their own and they can or infact should share what they feel about this great place.

Your work is awesome glad you like it here n keep up the good work !!  All the best 

 

I don't know if ii was a typo or a Freudian Slip. LOL Thanks for the comments

skyzyk
Reply #15 Monday, July 27, 2009 7:15 PM

Thank you all so much for your comments. You are all inspirations for me and I thank you. As my little autistic friend says "You make my heart happy!"     [e digicons]:karma:[/e]  

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