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And you've been doing this for only TWO YEARS?!? Wow...just...wow.

On one hand, I'm feeling VERY inferior (given that I can't draw worth anything). But then, if you can come so far in only a couple years' time...

...well, who knows?

If you want to draw then just draw. keep at it and sooner or later you're bound to draw well. :)

I only started drawing after Eurofurence 10, before that I hadn't drawn more than a stick figure for as long as I could remeber.
Tim Albee mentioned some things that reminded me of the martial arts training i've done over the years. kinda like going through the basic katas when your'e learning a fighting style. Simple reptitive excercises to teach the muscels how to perform without having to think about it (Insted of starting with a simple punch or a sword cut, you just teach yourself to draw a single line and work from there)
But the most importaint thing I learn back then was the samething I learned in the years I spent traveling: "Stop makig excuses and just bloody do it!",... it's a damn good lesson that is.
When I got back from EF I was working the nightshift in a store selling sunglasses, in the winter ('selling sunglasses at night', you can't make up crap jobs like that!), so I had pleanty of dead time, so I just started scribbling and trying differant things :)

I have to say I like the clean lines of 2005 better than the cheesy gradient backgrounds of 2006. The sort of papery background of the first image in 2006 is good, but the last two are so confused by the background that it isn't really possible to enjoy the line work.

Yeah? hmmmmmmm,..
I mostly got bored of just working in black and white. I felt it limited much expression of feeling and emotion from the picture.
some people have said it ties everythign together better,. some have said that it confuses matters. but I got similar feedback from just the black and white pictures too.
I may go back to B/w with some things but I might not,. who knows? :)