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This is why it's important to really zero in on WHAT you wanna do as an artist most of all. The fundies you need most depend on what your goals are. So you should zero in on what's most necessary, rather than wasting time on what you don't need, by trying to be good at everything.

That said, it still takes countless hours. I cannot understate the benefit of drawing A LOT. The only way you'll truly get better is by putting the hours in. 10,000 hours to mastery is no meme. In these two years, I must have put in a solid 5000 hours. But I wouldn't say it's 10,000 to mastery. It's more like a black belt in Martial Arts. It's 10,000 hours till you're pro, but there's still the upper "Dans" persay, that really set people apart.

However, it's not just putting in a lot of hours. Getting into a state of flow, where you just keep going up and up and up and up, only ever happens if you DON'T STOP drawing. Do it till it hurts, till you have headaches, build that work ethic and discipline to keep pushing no matter what. That's the only way to get good at this, there's no other way around it. Obviously, you can't start with 8 hours a day, but you should definitely work toward that. If this is what you wanna do for a living, getting to a level where you can get paid for doing this, and sustain yourself so you can dedicate more time to drawing by doing what I like to call "paid practice" should be priority number one.

More than anything, I'd say making actual manga is what really pushed me to even higher levels, because you're drawing so many panels in one page, and pushing them out very fast, you really start to sharpen your skills. Especially since manga will require you to draw stuff that's normally outside of your comfort zone, based on what shots and compositions you need, thus, you'll improve a lot faster than if you focus on doing one painting a day of stuff that you like cause you find it easy to do.

I don't mind showing this one off a bit since I'm done with the other one. I quite like the way this page came out.

I'm having a lot of fun with this new one shot.