Sounds totally believable. I'm only twenty and I have a long ways to go yet ^^; So I find that reasonable ^^

Airyuna: Well...find your oldest surviving work and compare ^^ if you'd like I can show you an example of a portrait I did of my character in 2005 compared to one I did in 2009 ^^

Empy, that would be great if you could show me it. ^^
It's always interesting to see people's progress.

It's a thumbnail, click to fullview ^^

Ooh, the new one is awesome! I love the shading, it looks really great.

Your old one is still better than mine are, though.

I'm 26 and I feel like I'm getting close to my true style.

Airyuna - you are going to go threw a lot with art. Things will be changing all over the place. As your learn to draw better. Its better for you to work on the important stuff like anatomy and such then when you have that down work on style. You will improve faster because your not so stuck on style. Usually people get caught up on that and then stick to there "happy place in art" and not get anywhere with it.

Mythic - You have gotten alot better! =3

thank you ^^

Well I started drawing seriously in like 2001-2002ish? I think, I dunno, when I was going into 7th grade XD So I'd already been drawing for a few years like mad XD I made progress during that time, but it's only really within the last 2-3 years that I've been making a lot of improvement o3o

KC: Thank you <3

KC: Well, I'm not actually "focusing" on finding a style; right now, I'd be already very happy if my drawings didn't look like crap...


Empy: You're very welcome. :3 It's good to see when hard work pays off and you seem to enjoy doing it, so all I can say is "Keep it up!" (but I'm sure you'll do that anyway ).

Yup ^^ I will, thanks <3 I should be working on my art assignment for Zantarni.com today o3o; But I might work on my redo of my one picture ^^; It's been awhile since I've arted for myself XD

Doing commissions seems to be a nice source of income for people on avatar sites, especially if they're good. I myself am of course very far from being able to offer that service...


Do you allow me to ask what your customer has ordered? (You don't have to show me the references, I just meant what kind of picture it is. ^^° But of course, you don't have to!)

It's actually not a commission, I'm on the art staff there, so I actually can't tell you about it XD Sorry D:

And yeah, I do pretty well with commissions, but I don't typically have the time for them o3o;; And unless it's for real monies they don't typically take priority XD