Practice, practice, practice. This is 10 years of hard work and constant painting, studying and practicing. Art isn't something you just pick up and learn quickly. Art isn't fun and easy. It takes a hard work, a serious desire to improve and as much skill and learning as anything else.

You might think the pictures at the beginning are still good, but they are lacking a lot of things.

1998 - I think the first one may be the first or 2nd watercolor I did. I was still doing a lot of digital for fanart. I still did in later years but I didn't include any of the rest.

2000 - I lost the middle paint and have never found it. I must have had a thing for red hair.

2001- These are all characters from my comics. The first green one I would consider my first really good fantasy art that was good enough to keep showing for years.

2002 - First two are illustration from college. All of the sudden I was forced to paint lots of pictures with backgrounds and full figures for my project.

2003 - Started sticking with inked drawings and hot press watercolor paper here.

2004 - More detail....

2005 - I made an effort this year to draw entire figures that fit in the picture without feet being cut off etc. Started using more photo reference.

2006 - Can't think of anything notable. Maybe less fairy wings...nah

2007 - At this point I am usually spending 80% of my time on backgrounds than the people in the picture.