Shannon Dybvig is a twenty-year-old geek who is attending Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa. She's majoring in Computer Science and minoring in Studio Art [drawing concentration] and Math. Some of her viewing favorites are Star Trek [all incarnations], ReBoot, Firefly, and Serial Experiments: Lain. She built her desktop computer [ZingMroo] in March of 2005. It was probably the fourth one she's built. [She has since built several more]

Shannon has been drawing for most of her life. During mid-elementary school Shannon began to work with clay as well, both pottery and hand-building [though favoring the latter]. She stopped taking art classes during her freshman and sophomore years in high school due to a lack of space in her schedule, but returned to the arts in late high school.

Throughout her artistic experiences, Shannon had a tendency towards realistic drawing although she was always far more enticed by more comicky styles. At the beginning of her junior year she started playing with comic and manga styletypes. It was the meld of these styles with her already-established realism that resulted in her current style. As with any artist, this style continues to grow as the artist learns and is exposed to new ideas, techniques, and styles.

During her freshman year, one of the drawings Shannon created in her Drawing I class made it into the Student Show and received an Honorable Mention. She was unable to enter any work into her Sophomore year show, but hope to make some entries in her junior year. In addition to drawing, Shannon has taken classes in painting, 3D, and 2D design.