Pixel Artist/Musician/Writer Frank joins the battle - Greetings Steemit!

Man, I don't know... Maybe give me a little time to go consult it with my psychologist? Jokes aside, I'm just a musician and pixel artist who has an obsession with videogames among other things but I'll get to that later.

I'm 25 years young, yeah, young and don't dare tell me otherwise... Okay I need to stop the lame jokes, but really, I'm from Venezuela, the country on the north end of south america in case you're curious, meaning my main language is Spanish which leads me to mention my English is entirely self taught. I'm easygoing and maybe even goofy to an extent then again you probably figured that out by now, but don't let that mislead you though. That aside what I do for a living unfortunately isn't directly involved with my passions, but it's fairly close, I repair mobiles for a living, only the software part, it can be a tedious work but it can be funny too like this one time someone thought they had their OS (operative system) broken in their tablet but all the tablet needed was to get the battery charged (I'm not kidding!).

What are my obsessions/hobbies?

Well my biggest obsession is my girlfriend obviously... But seriously, I'm interested in many things such as books, TV shows, movies, nature and such, but the core lies in videogames, music, writings.

One of my goals in life is to become a game developer, it's been a dream ever since I held the controller of my first console for the first time (it was a NES). People says videogames can't compare to books and they're right, just not entirely, some haven't played truly meaningful games.
The beauty of them lies in the materialization and freedom of creation of an idea and immersing the player in them among other things, I believe, it involves a lot of work, it needs programming, it needs art, it needs music, it needs a story though of course some can be so simple they may lack one or more of those characteristics but some others tell you a story, put you in the flesh of a character and you live through their story, it's something that truly fascinates me and led me eventually to some other hobbies as writing and pixel art, since the stories of some games and the art were so mesmerizing and are nostalgic (when it comes to pixels for the most part) to me.

As I got deeper into pixel art I grew fond of it, art is a way to reflect the perception of the world from the artist eyes and yet the beauty of it lies in the eyes of the beholder. The shading, gradients, the line work, everything has its own level of difficulty and its own trick as well as the design and the many ways you can represent something. At first I wasn't very confident that I could do it but my girlfriend supported me and pushed me into it which I'm really grateful for and here I am.

Then there's the other main branch of likings, taken from what I already mentioned, music.
Music is something precious and important to mankind and yet, if you are to ask someone why, no one can give you a solid answer. Music has been here for as long as we have, it has evolved with us and even stars before us make music in their own celestial way.

I started my musical journey when I was 14, bought my second instrument, a keyboard, my first was a cuatro, bought to me by my mom when I was 8, it's a string instrument of four strings much like the ukulele and its traditional of my country, it was for my music class and I ironically hated both the cuatro and the class. But later on when I picked the keyboard I started to teach myself it and I grew fond of it, played it for bands locally when I was 18 too but it didn't end up being the only instrument I liked. When I was 15 my uncle bought me an acoustic guitar and by the time I was 17 I decided to buy an electric one as well and I loved it to the point its my main "weapon" nowadays and I've taken a liking in guitars themselves to the point I'd like to try to be a luthier sometime.

Why am I here?

I found steemit thanks to a dear friend I consider a brother, shout out to @gabrielsotillo for showing me this place and I'm legitimately impressed by the good vibes of it. I find it as a very interesting place to vent and blog things in many ways. I've never blogged before really but it's something I'm eager to try and if there's a good place to do so I believe that's here, especially because of how welcome it is to bring original content.

What kind of posts can you expect from me?

Mainly I'd love to share my art and my progress through it with all of you, I'd like you to walk with me through the process and through the way of improving as an artist but that isn't everything though, other things I'd like to share with you include:

• My musical works.
• Videogames reviews.
• Guitar techniques.
• Guitar reviews.
• Bands or music albums reviews.
• Short stories.

And occasionally other things most likely around the same lines and that said, I want to thank you for gifting me a piece of your valuable time to read through my introduction, my story. I hope we get along! And this concludes why I'm frankly pixelated.

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All of the images in this post are my original property