My pseudonym for my online art is Alex Williams, but I mostly publish using the name of Workshop Alex, since it's my work from my workshop.
I hatched in 1966 in Amsterdam, the Netherlands and still live in the same city. It's a beautiful and very open-minded place, but a bad place if you need to park your car there, so I don't work there.

My daily job is software engineer. This means that I translate a concept to a technical design and then to code, which gets compiled to become an application that's sold to a few thousand customers. I started probramming when I was about 14 years old, in a time when personal computers were still rare and the Internet still a wet dream. In the years after that, I've changed into a software expert with plenty of knowledge of the MS-DOS and Windows products. I've done a bit of Linux/Unix development too but the software I create needs lots of customers to keep it affordable for them, thus I mostly focus on where the most customers are. (Which just happens to be Windows.)

As a hobby, I've always been interested in digital photography and in 1988 I was already trying to translate a drawing to a digital form by using a simple paint application and special raster paper, so I could check where I had to make pixels black. The result was okay, but when I bought a hand scanner about two years later, the results became much better. Then upgrading to a flatbed (color) scanner and in 1995 I bought my first "digital camera", although modern webcams nowadays offer a much better image quality than my first camera ever did. I continued making digital pictures and upgrading my digital camera's to get proper material to manipulate for some interesting pieces. At first, I would just cut out persons from one picture and put them in another picture but about 3 years ago, I started to use Poser.
And Poser allowed me to create fictional characters with fictional clothing in fictional environments and a whole fictional lot more. So I quickly mastered the use of Poser and now consider myself to be a Poser expert.

And it's funny, because I can combine my Poser art with my regular job. I did create a few web sites for my employer that involved a rendered character doing certain actions to show the user what they should do. Or holding up warning signs or other symbols, just to add more color to a plain website.

Anyway, some of my artwork happens to be so good that it was "stolen" by some company that sells 3D rendered art. And while it upsets me that they stole it to make a profit from it, it also flatters me that they consider my art good enough to steal.

Anyways, I'm an old guy who is obsessed by computers and who'se favorite girl happens to live in my head. She sometimes gets out and into my art and all my girlfriends have had to compete with her. And just her, since I won't look at other women, except my girlfriend and my dream girl.