I started out a brony artist using a mouse and an outdated photoshop program. A really old one, it didn't have .gif format. I'd read a few how to draw manga manuels and doodled in highschool but nothing more and it never looked like anything any sane person would pay for. All I knew was that I wanted to make kool pictures that looked good. I saw all the beautiful art going up and I said, "God I wish I could do that. How do they do that?!?!" and the truth is, there isn't that much to learn, nor that much money to spend.

TO DATE, I have spent a total of about $120 on digital art materials. I use SAI which is roughly $45 dollars, and I have a simple, $50 turcom tablet. The pen is simple too, no eraser back. I don't have one of those high tech WACOM touch screen tablets. I don't have Photoshop CS6. I've never taken an art course in my life, and I never want to. And again, it isn't hard to learn. speed art videos are very good for dissecting the process at least broadly. You just have to ask questions, answer them, and then apply them. You'll mess up a few times, that's perfectly fine and natural but you'll learn. And then one day, you'll visit your old gallery, the first one you put up and realise "...I did it. I pulled it off". I'm not calling myself a great, I definitely don't know it all but I don't want to hear that you just don't have the 'talent' or you just know you'll be bad at it. That's never been true and it still isn't. It's a skill. Skills are meant to be developed over long periods of time and refined through research and practice.

Watch some tutorials or speed art videos. Find out what they're doing and how you can use it. We aren't wizards, we weren't born artists. We've been working hard researching it and applying what we've learned since we looked bright eyed upon that first piece that made us want it.

And that's it... no inspiring story, no deeper meaning. I just love it,

Never stop if you love it enough