Only Once

You should go look at the larg version, theres so much detail that you could spend days looking at this.

I'll answer each question,

My Goals:
I wanna expand into everything, fantasy,elves,dragons, and anything else I an get my greedy paws on, although I seem to be stuck doing anthros, and landscapes behind them, I'm obessed with my character.. I need to learn more, see more, but not sure how too. I feel that I may go crazy before I have the chance.I'm not sure if I could do it for a living, its very hard for me to make these actually, even if it looks easy. I stress out to the point of being sick, but maybe not as much if I only knew more, understood more, but the only person I can seem to understand is myself, no one has ever been able to explain anyting to me, I learn in such a werid way that I never made it through school. I droped out and then discovred I could draw. I've just not got the strength, and completed my basic education, it took me a long time to recover from those evil days at school so long ago.

Plans,Artschools:
I've never been to any art class(except maybe.. 8th grade, and ..4th grade, but I don't even remember those classes, corse I always remember what I learned in them), or art school of any kind, I do what feels natural or teach my self, and read. I've found that observation is the best friend you have... I've been at this 3 years now.. I think I wish to go to art school but not sure what for in it.. Every person who has been to collage, or already been a artist for al ong time has either looked down on my stuff, pointed out everything wrong, or told me it looked horrible. The last one I remember told me they basically hated my work and that I would never improve. now I Try not to remember that, but that particular sentence seems to come into my head often, but the person was right about a lot of things.. other then that they were a complete jerk. I've like been weary of wanting to go to a collage for art, cause of the people I've met from them >.>

Other then that I'm not sure what to do... I do think I should go, or I will regret it. .since it seems to be the only thing I can do, or do better then most other people.

I know exactly what you are talking about with concern to school. Art school is really hard. The teachers are critical and the students are critical. It does get to the point where art as a career doesn't look like so much fun. That's how I feel anyway. I've been in university now for five years. I have one more year to go before I get my degree in illustration. It gets to the point where all you see is the bad stuff in your own art, and that's really paralyzing. I'm still recovering from the effects of my last semester. It isn't for everyone. I'd drop out if I wasn't so close to finishing the program. I'm not even going to try and pursue Art as a career anymore. Instead I'll aim for a job doing web development.

This piece is one of my top ten most favorite pieces on this site( the other nine are also yours but that's not the point). You shouldn't take what other people say about your art too seriously. Sure, you may need a little improvement and it's always good to realize that, BUT not everyone likes this gloomy fantasy artwork and that's not your fault. Accept the criticism that can help you in your weak areas and bypass the criticism that is aimed at the subject of your piece (especially if the subject is dear to you, as this one seems to be). I love your work. PLEASE, continue!

This one is dear, I worked really hard to make sure this one, was as good as I could possbile do it, and that the idea would be more fresh then others have done about this type of feeling. I wanted to give up many times painting it cause I found things I couldn't or didn't know how to do, so I struggled to fix them, or do what I could. Something that you wanna express like sadness, and such shouldn't be a 2 minute project, you should put all your effort into showing how you feel if you make a picture about it (or atleast thats how I feel most of the time about it)

I had to stare at the crappy sketch of this for a long time trying to figure out what to do.

Finally after a very long time I picked it up again and then would take brakes and continue working till it was as done as I could get it.

Thanks for the advice.. -=^_^=- and taking the time to say something.

It was my pleasure. I really like your work and I hope to see some new pieces soon.