SPark (Utah)

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[[Image:Spark1.jpg|right|thumb|225px|Spark, Art © Melody Lu]]

'''SPark''' is a professional [[fursuit]] creator and [[artist]].

== Biography ==
S. Park, or SPark as she prefers to be called, was born in [[Wikipedia:Utah|Utah]] in 1978, but her parents had moved six times by the time she was eight years old, and have kept roaming since, so she's lived in dozens of different places in the western [[Wikipedia:United_states|United States]].

As a child, her greatest ambition was to be an artist, though she went through a brief phase of wanting to sell insurance, because her Dad did it, and "anything Dad does is pretty cool when you're eight". She realized that insurance wasn't what she had thought of it to be and pursued art instead. After many years of practice, and a great many classes, she decided she was good enough to try and make money at art. That lasted about a year before she realized she did not enjoy doing [[commission]]s, and instead attempted to pursue a degree in [[Wikipedia:Education|Education]], so she could teach art.

As she began college, she encountered the [[Wikipedia:Internet|Internet]], and quickly gravitated to the [[dragon]] community, and from there learned about such things as [[Otherkin]] and [[Furries]]. Having long pictured herself as a [[Dragon]], and having been fascinated with animals her entire life, she joined into the [[draconic]] and [[furry]] communities with enthusaism, and developed several different personas, both [[furry]] and non-furry.

SPark is an active member of [[Wikipedia:Church_of_Jesus_Christ_and_Latter_Day_Saints|The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints]], also called the "Mormon" church, and took a break from school and her artwork to serve as a [[Wikipedia:Missionary|missionary]] in [[Wikipedia:Ireland|Ireland]], from 2000 to 2001. Her faith is an important part of her life, but she seldom discusses it in public forums, regarding religious matters as personal.

In December of 2003, her then boyfriend, who wasn't himself [[furry]], but who was very accepting of her [[furry]] lifestyle, decided to buy her a [[tail]] for Christmas, so she could "be" one of her [[fursona]]s. This proved to be a massive turning point. Not because the tail was good, but because it was, in fact, all wrong. The wrong shape, the wrong color, the wrong markings. She decided that surely she could do better herself, and set out to find fabrics and learn how to sew. A few months later her first very simple
partial [[fursuit]] debuted at the local [[Wikipedia:Science_fiction_convention|science fiction convention]], where it was a hit with [[furries]] and [[geeks]] alike.

Soon she was working on another, more ambitious personal [[fursuit]], and less than a year later began taking commissions.
[[Image:Sparkdrabbit.jpg|right|thumb|225px|Drabbit © SPark]]

== Art and fursuits==
SPark is now a full-time [[fursuit]] creator, with a steadily growing portfolio of suits. She currently lives in [[Wikipedia:Oregon|Oregon]], with her [[furry]] boyfriend. She has a number of [[fursona]]s, and is known online by several different names, including Bladespark, FlameSong Firedancer, Serapha Rhiannon, Aidan Rhiannon, and YinWolf.

SPark has long loved drawing both [[fantasy]] and [[furry]] subjects, starting off with a childhood obsession with [[horses]], and moving on to her current and continuing obsession with [[dragon]]s and dragon hybrids. She no longer accepts art commissions, but draws merely for the love of drawing. She has also done a fair amount of 3-d work including [[Wikipedia:Sculpture|sculpture]] and [[Wikipedia:Ceramics_%28art%29|ceramics]], and has studied art at [[Wikipedia:Weber_State_University|Weber State University]] in [[Wikipedia:Utah|Utah]] for three years.

She carries those skills and interests over into her [[fursuit]] making work. She's quite happy to make the usual [[foxes]], [[cat]]s, and [[wolves]], but is happiest when she can make a strange hybrid or invented creature.
[[Image:Yinwolf.jpg|right|thumb|225px|Yinwolf © SPark]]

== Life goals, work and interests ==
In recent months, SPark has withdrawn from some areas of the [[furry]] community, wishing to avoid [[drama]] and intolerance, and mostly concentrates on her [[fursuit]] making. She can usually be found these days lurking on fursuiting message boards, just waiting for the chance to share some of her ideas and techniques. Her philosophy is that anybody who's good enough to take her techniques and compete with her would end up competing anyhow, so she happily fosters up and coming [[fursuit]] makers.

She maintains a [[fursuit]] making forum, dedicated to the open sharing of methods and ideas for fursuit making.
[[Image:Sparkdragon.jpg|right|thumb|225px|Shiny Dragon © SPark]]

== External links ==
{{Contributor|S.Park}}
* [http://www.bladespark.com SPark's Main Site]
* [http://www.sparkcostumes.com/ SPark's Fursuit Site]
* [http://80scartoons.net/fursuitforum/ SPark's Fursuit Forum]

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