Selos Dae, creator of [][]Trap[][], came to SL rather at random through a friend, he hated it the first day because everyone was so hideous, quit for awhile, came back and learned a litle beyond the newbie area...lol :)
He started with a small box on the Deviant Kitties sim learning everything from scratch. The owner happened to notice him and his friends wearing his first skins in her store and offered him his first small 'box' store. Eventually he moved on from that and ended up on Siyu Suen's sim, Carnivale working with Kriket Pimpernel in the store, where the main store is currently located.
He uses Photoshop to create his skins painted entirely from scratch, and no use of existing skins and body part photos in anything more then reference study of the human body.
In hopes of bringing expressiveness and art into skins unlike what he'd seen when he first started, he decided to use the basic body as a canvas rather then go for a realistic style.
His favorite styles being of course, fantasy of any kind and plans to branch out in all directions/cultures/styles that interest him.
Profile photo attached.
Update/Art Blog: http://darkrainfall.blogspot.com/
Flickr/Flickr group:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/selosdae/
http://www.flickr.com/groups/trapskins/