Women in IT and computing – a female geek’s perspective
Some of you may know that I work in the IT (Information Technology) industry in my day job (computing/ programming) and that I’m fairly passionate about women studies. That being said, people would probably box me in the ‘nerd’ or ‘girl geek’ category easily – and that truly doesn’t bother me. I’m happy to wear that badge of honour. I’m a computer programmer, I paint fantasy and sci-fi imagery, I love the whole genre in fact (read, watch and play), I’m involved in medieval recreation, I game (though rather badly) and I even wrote an animation assignment at uni on Anime (back in 1997, way before Anime became the ‘in’ thing).
Anyway, it got me to thinking about ‘girl geeks’, in particular women in IT, and why we seem to be rare (and often at odds with the stereotypes). It also got me thinking about how I ended up in a male dominated industry which hasn’t really changed in numbers, in fact I think I see less girls coming into IT these days than when I was just beginning my career.
2011 in review – art across the year
A summary of the last 12 months through artworks and sketches. There are elf boys, angels, demons, knights, barbarians and pinups. This has been taken from my Deviant Art Meme so all the links point to my gallery over there, however pretty much all of the artworks are available on my site in the galleries and blog posts.
Ruchira & Ipsita commission process
I recently published a commission piece to my galleries called Ipsita & Ruchira. I thought I’d share a little bit of the behind the scenes that goes into a commission. The client contacted me and gave me a very detailed description of her characters, how they looked, thoughts on the background, and then let me ...
Sketchfest December 2011
As per usual, I made it to Sketchfest and this time got a number done. My computer seems ok to work in photoshop, but I can’t run my second monitor for long periods of time like I normally do, so only one digital painting. (I watch a lot of catch-up tv on the laptop when sketching, ...
