Sit down, pour it out
(Photoshop, I love you.)
I started playing around in Photoshop in the end of 1999, I think that's the year v5 came out. I was hooked on it for quite some time, learning tricks and trying to "paint" with my mouse. A couple of years later, I've bought a Wacom Volito, which turned out to be quite OK. It helped me a lot while working on my personal favorite, "Casperz nightmare".
"Silver metal fingers" was my first ever creation (I believe it was February, 2000). I created the outlines in Corel Draw and then finished it in Photoshop. It's basically just chrome filter with craquelure at 0px applied over it, if I recall correctly. But it still looks great, I think :)
I haven't created any new graphics in the past two years, but I guess inspiration doesn't care about time. I've got some stuff in the works ;)