Hm..Lets see, back in the days when Photoshop 7 Was a big hit! I just liked all the things I could do in it, and when I was searching for Artwork or something like that I found Game Renders, back in Nov 04, and decided to join because of the possibilities that were available back then. But mostly, because my parents said that now you are going to High School so choose your path, and I liked Adobe and Macromedia Products and decided to go with them -Z
I got into graphix cause it was the next step in my artistry library beyond drawing, painting, photography, and scultping I needed something more and someone at a car dealership I worked with showed me this site to start me off in knowing the ins and outs of photoshop.
For me it was after I made one sig in GIMP for the hell of it; and a bunch of people wanted sigs from me for a different forum. I'm currently in the process of making those sigs, that is how I came across GR.
google is what lead me to gfx.. i come across a "tag wall" and said i wanna be able to do that some day, talked to my girlfriend, she said "ill get you cs2 for x-mas" and i been on Gr ever since.
Counter-Strike I wanted custom sprays for counter strike so I joined a forum(edit-strike) and requested one. Then I started making them. THen I moved to sigs.
I wanted to skin maps on halo 2 and I needed photoshop so I got it from my uncle. I tried once to skin and gave up. Then I saw sigs on here and just tried making some. Now I just make sigs and banners and other website gfx stuff. Never tried skinning again.