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One year ago, my friend and I started the "one submission minimum" per month at the first of every month. We refined the rules as we went, making them clearer as time went on. (I won't bore anyone reading, unless it's requested, in which case I'll edit them in or post in a comment.) The main goal was to grow as artists and gain some discipline as submitters to the site. It worked. This is not to say it wasn't without challenges (and some setbacks). You cannot calculate what life will throw at you, and the discipline is to secure that your submission is made in spite of life going on, rather than using excuses for getting out of submitting

Watching the process of something come together is amazing. Specially if you see it in a short amount of time via the power of technology and time lapse. Please watch the following video of me making my latest DA submission as of July 13, 2014. Thank you.

I recall reading somewhere that an artist will have many years of creating crap that doesn't match what's in his head. After many practices and honing of skill, one day, what's on paper matches what's in your head. But every practice, no matter how much better than your last attempt, is, quite frankly, painful. And if you can make it through every painful experience, you gain new neuron connections, new artistic insight, new technique insight. And it always boils down to details.  A light line instead of a slightly-lighter one; a short brush stroke instead of a medium one; shooting a low perspective instead of high one. Still, it seems l