Every artist's site has to have your basic "information about the artist/author" page that is always necessary and never read.

So here's a little about me:

My real name is unimportant, as I prefer to go by Sidian in online situations. I'm generally a fairly optimistic person, I love to laugh, and I love to make others laugh. Though I can also be fairly sarcastic and cynical...
Some interesting facts about me: I only have one eye, and still manage to draw like I do (people insist I'm good...blah). I lost my right eye to cancer (retinoblastoma) when I was three. I think I've managed it pretty well through all the people giving me shit about it and the half a dozen or so surgeries I've had to have.
Though I am part of the furry fandom, due to my artistic involvement, I don't really consider myself a "fur" so to speak.  I am not a furry. I am a therianthrope, and a furry artist.  It's fairly hard to explain, and I don't like to get into it in detail with people I don't know very well.  Sufficed to say, there are some aspects of the furry fandom that I find very distasteful, some of which are mentioned below... I dislike how the fandom at large seems to revolve around porn and kink to such a high degree, though I understand that's just how it is. And I even draw some of it, obviously.  It would simply be nice if the artists who don't focus entirely upon that sort of thing got a little more acclaim, and I'm not just referring to myself. 
I HATE the impossible physical proportions that exist in the fandom. My reasoning for being against MASSIVELY huge-breasted women and herms, is this: When I was 17, I had a breast reduction. I went from a DD to a C, and it was the best choice I EVER made. I'm happier now, I feel better and I look better. It was a pain to be as large as I was, and I think that these people just don't realize what large-breasted women have to go through. People staring, being self-conscious, back pain, shoulder pain, higher risk of breast cancer, a hard time finding clothes that fit right, and I'm not even going to go into how hard it was to find a bra. Most of the people who draw and play these furs that have 6 H-cup breasts are men, men who just don't realize what it's like. A much lesser reason for my disgust with balloon-breasts is the fact that I'm a realist. I draw realistically, despite my subjects of choice. I pride myself on it, and boobs that could be used as emergency flotation devices just DO NOT EXIST. They look terrible and are usually on tiny little vixens. I'm sorry, but the tiny little vixen would have balance problems...or snap in half like a twig...
Being the zoology fanatic that I am, I also pride myself on making the species that I draw look like the species that they're supposed to be. I do this to the point of obsession, at times. I will get frustrated and angry if I realize I did a facial structure or fur pattern wrong, and insist on fixing it if possible, despite the fact that most people who view it won't notice or care.  I enjoy making anthropomorphic characters out of unique, rare, and fascinating animals, as can be noted in my wide variety of furry characters.
I am a massive roleplay nerd (also can be noted in my wide array of characters, furry and non). I roleplay on Tapestries when I can find it, RP being exceedingly difficult to find in furry venues. For this reason, most of my roleplaying occurs in Imperia, an IRC-based (non-furry!) RP channel that has been around for 9 years, about 8 of which I have been a part of it, barring a few breaks.
I'm a nature nut, I love the outdoors and wildlife, and I know all sorts of animal facts (though not enough! Never enough! Must learn more!) I was briefly in college with goals to be a zoology major, but lack of funding and  focus brought that to an unfortunate end. Someday I hope to go back.  I love birdwatching and wildlife viewing, and get a kick out of being able to identify birds/animals on sight. If I don't know what it is, I must find out.
Like just about every artist you'll find, I'm not really all that happy with my work (though I will admit to an impressive degree of improvement). An artist is his/her own worst critic, after all.
One thing about my art that I am quite proud of is its originality. Although I may be inspired and impressed by other artists, I never copy someone else's style or technique. I have been known to study a piece of someone else's work for reference with muscles or a certain limb position or ideas for clothing/jewelry, but never their style. I have yet to stumble across anyone who draws just like me, and have been told that people can actually recognize my style: "Hey! That's a Sidian pic!" That's a real ego booster right there. ;) They say they can recognize the eyes the most.
I've always been told, ever since I started drawing when I was little, that I'm really good at expressions. People still tell me that and it makes me happy. :)
That's about all I can come up with for the moment, so if you want to know more, ASK ME! :)
(More artist/art info stuff after the characters crap.)

Now on to other stuff....

Sidian is a furred, mammalian Silver dragon.  Sidian is, in essence, me. She is my other half, so to speak, another facet of my personality, not just a "character". In that respect I'm more of a therianthrope than a fur. She is a very close and private thing to me. When I'm on a muck as her, I play myself, there is no reference to "my player" or "typist," and though I love to role play, I'm very rarely fully in character.
If you want to learn more about Sidian, you can check out the section on her in the Gallery.

I love to draw and I love to write, though I draw much much more than I write. I started drawing furries before I even knew what furries were, because I couldn't draw humans. Then when I found out about furrydom, thanks to stumbling upon some furry art through a search for weredragons on the net, and a friend directing me to Furnation, my options expanded and I discovered a whole new genre. I started drawing more, coming up with more ideas, and began drawing some yiff (yikes!). I have been inspired by many artists, the first furry artists I ever really saw (before I got into the fandom) were Jessica Willard, Bucky, K9, Singe, Chris Sawyer and some others I really can't remember right now.  I owe a LOT to Goldenwolf, just one all night art session with her and my colored pencil skill increased dramatically, she's so amazing. Same goes for Kyoht, who taught me tons about traditional media.  I really cannot stand art like what Winger does, and I have a strict personal policy about that kind of thing (see above). I do NOT draw females with massive or multiple breasts, and I do not draw impossibly huge or messy genitalia as a basic rule. Perhaps another time for my rant about spooge...
My primary mediums are colored pencils and digital coloring with Paint Shop Pro. I enjoy both, though tend to use PSP more, because I like the clean look of digital coloring.

I can be e-mailed at sidian@sidian.net
Well, that's about it, as if you even got this far. These pages do tend to be rather boring. So now you can get your fuzzy butt back to the good stuff.