((I'm going to be cliche and say I've been drawing since I was a wee chick. However it was nothing more than twice a year or so. I think years and time in general is a poor way of judging someone's artistic journey. Thanks for the kind words about my style! The choice of the style used on this blog is my own personal, natural enjoyable style. I can render gorgeously and my commissions are often more smooth...however despite that I enjoy pushing shadows, lighting, contrast and I'm a firm believer that colour choices can make others feel things. I discovered it 3 weeks ago when I just started to sketch to wind down and found when left to my own devices, this is what pleased me the most. I started to actually study art two years ago, on my own terms. For months there I would do nothing else but read, watch, learn, practice and draw for 16 hours each day, it became more than a career for me. I can't say why I did it, above all else I wanted to get good enough for people to feel things. But It was a lot of serious days where my brain would hurt from learning and my wrist was in shambles. These days uni keeps me from drawing as much as I'd like, same goes for streaming. I used to [before my PC died this week XD] but at late hours my time. Since I'm Australian, the majority of my watchers were asleep! It's rather taxing on my computer to stream, so without viewers I stopped in order to work on bigger files without lag :) Thanks for your question! I hope this helped. Side note: Raven/mod asks will update whenever I get them, Beat will be updated tomorrow, Thursday the 20th of March :) ))