User:LineDetail

Line, born 1977, in the Philippines as Mark Anthony Cansino. Son of Eugene Cansino and Cynthia Cansino.

Line's nickname as an illustrator arose in 1995 in Syosset, NY where his architecture teacher told him he had great line detail when he looked at his draft illustration work for a house he was designing and the trees and brush surrounding it. Line comments: 'I grew a big smile and that comment stayed in my mind. I was proud of my work'.

In the same year, the Internet was at it's beginning. You had to choose a name for yourself when chatting on the Internet. 10 letters was the maximum letters you could use. LineDetail ended up being the name he chose and later on it became part of his business name, The LineDetail Drawing Co., intentionally written without a space in between Line and Detail to keep reference to it's origin.

Because of chatting on the Internet, those who saw his screen name called him 'Line' for short. With that, his nickname became Line and all art from then on was signed Line.

Line participated and led some in-person groups surrounding his creativity. The Long Island Web Developer's Guild, The Long Island Flash User Group. Online, Line led an online webcam / live streaming group on what was once known as Google+ hangouts in a page called Draw And Chat.