Millard Sperbeck
Artist | Hobbyist | Traditional Art

United States

About me:
On here, I'm many things. Firstly, I am an aspiring evolutionary biologist who finds the vast diversity of life, both living and extinct, truly fascinating. I've gone collecting fossils of Middle Devonian age on my own land, and some beautiful pelecypods [Unknown sp.] are to be found on my shelf. This I am planning on majoring in.

I am a secular humanist, who believes in the abilities of Man to solve his own problems (with absolutely no offence to my robotic friends). I stand firmly by the saying that "two hands working do far more than a thousand clasped in prayer". I believe consciousness to emerge from the brain, not from some external entity, and only believe in that which can be demonstrated empirically to be true. To tell the truth, I am not as vehement the antitheist as I used to be; although I still lack belief in any gods or other supernatural entities, I don't argue on it nearly as much as I used to and it doesn't affect my personal life at all. In the Northeast, religion is nowhere as nearly important as in other parts of the U.S., and as I am hoping to move to Europe (probably Germany), the rates of religosity are even lower. Although I stay informed and vote about things like my own country's politics, I see arguing about it as futile for the most part, and again, it doesn't impact my life very much except in the incredibly unlikely case someone in power does something incredibly stupid (which I doubt will happen soon). This seems to be a calmer phase of Man's history, at least within the civilised world [look at, for example, the countries of Europe not all at each other's throats for the first time in world history] and hope it lasts for a long time to come.

Regarding art, I'm currently trying to learn manga and master my (very nice) Bamboo graphics tablet. My art studio is a room that was once an old nursery I've been converting for my own nefarious purposes. It's mostly converted over by now, simply needing a coat of paint, some boxes in the corner moved out, and some rubbish taken off the door.

Picture is of me taken in July 2012 at the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C., next to "Morgie" (Morgancuodon oehleri).

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Policies on faves, commissions, &c:
View my policy on 's - [link]
As per [link] :

Kiribans are for friends only, i.e., I will only specifically award you for catching my pageview if you are already my friend. I may still make things like "thanks to all for X views" for an arbitrarily large number X, but you'll only get singled out as special if I already like you. (E.g., I gave a "thank you" to my friend Thurosis for being my 2000^th page-view.)

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Contact me:
E-mail - millardsperbeck@yahoo.com
Twitter - [link]
reddit - [link]

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