Aug 18, 2022 6:49 am
TrustyJustin
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About me:
| Name: | Justin |
| Joined: | 2016 |
| Age: | 40 |
| Personal Pronouns: | He/Him |
| Location: | Christmas Valley, Oregon. |
| I am a visual artist, muralist and educator. I've worked as a sign painter for over 10 years and my work can be seen at grocery stores, movie theaters, schools and other businesses all over Oregon (Mostly Portland) and a couple in Los Angeles. I teach classes all over the west coast. My favorite class to teach is Paint and build a custom skateboard and my favorite class that's easy to clean up after is Comic books and Graphic Novels. Fun projects that I've done include a neon sign design outside of The Global Art of Dance, chalk festivals, set design for the Light Opera of Portland and a couple of beer labels. My current goal/interest is to have my art pay for my ability to travel and see different places, whether that be through teaching, or murals, or ideally, both. | |
| RPG Interests: | My first DM was my dad. I started playing when I was about 11 and my brother was 12. He had a few of the AD&D books and some of the adventure modules. I don't know what the first one we played was called, but it involved getting picked up by a giant bird on top of a mountain. After that I started buying and reading a bunch of RPGs, I remember buying and playing Toon, TMNT and Ghostbusters. I didn't really think that TMNT was a great system, but I liked rolling up characters on the tables and I really enjoyed reading the books. Ghostbusters, on the other hand, is totally solid. That game can be fun. Oh, and Paranoia, that one was a lot of fun to read. I had a good group when I was a teenager and then again in my 20s. We played D&D and Pathfinder. I sometimes run a game with some of my friends and their kids. We're currently, very occasionally running Tomb of Annihilation on Roll20. Although I've been a member of GP since 2016, I often only play one or two games at a time and I take breaks in-between. I have a terrible fear of overextending myself especially since so much of my work is deadline driven. This is also why I tend to avoid games that have unfamiliar rules systems. I would love to play Fallout, Marvel Multiverse, Mutants and Masterminds, or even the previous Marvel RPG, but I also don't want to take the time to learn another rule system. I like to draw my characters. My favorite characters on Gamers Plane have been a pacifist jedi named Zara Kesh, and a psychic street kid in Rifts named Danny Del Rios. I often play characters (Much to a GM's chagrin) that view combat as a last resort. |
| Non-Rpg Interests: | I am currently working with a Seattle-based poet on a book of haiku comics that will be coming out next year. I love comic books and movies. I've been reading comics since I was a child. My mom used to work at the gas station and she would bring home Spiderman for me regularly. I was really into 90s indie comics like Tank Girl and Stray Bullets and Slave Labor stuff. I didn't really read a lot of superhero stuff back then, but there was so much other good stuff to read, it hardly mattered. Nowadays I'll read any comic that can hold my interest past the first couple issues. I am way more forgiving of boring art than I am of boring writing. My morning routine is a cup of coffee, the music for comics playlist and one-two single issues or a chapter from a graphic novel. My all time favorites re-readable comics include: Dark Knight Returns, Paper Girls, Chris Claremont's entire run on X-men and New Mutants, and of course, Watchmen. I tend to follow creators more than characters, although Storm and Kitty Pride are probably my favorite X-Men. My relationship with movies is pretty much the same, I love discovering a director that I'm unfamiliar with and taking a deep dive on their body of work. I don't watch a ton of tv, although, I do like a few sitcoms, telenovelas and soap operas. |
This AMA will run until 25 August 2022.
