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Well its getting about 1 year since I got a tablet and really got into drawing. So I figure this would be a good time to reflect on my experiences.
In the beginning, it was fun. I met a lot of cool people. Sadly, nobody seemed as enthusiastic about drawing as I was then. Some of the interesting people I met were from Anime Discovery Project at the UW, in particular, ~AnimeDaisuki seemed cool and tried to get me more involved in the community, but sadly alas there was a freshman there who was completely egocentric and after talking to him and msging him on DA I just thought I was too old to deal with this shit and just didnt bother to go back. Oh well, there was a cute girl there too.
Following my journey of the tablet. The first person to ever reply to my enthusiasm in drawing, and I totally envy his style is ~pantsu-pirate. He also introduced me to the whole pchat concept, although it was more of just using a whiteboard with a limited graphics log, so you would have to clear about every 15 minutes or so. Every once in a while I drag him into a pchat session.
Eventually I started going to Niko's pchat on a daily basis. I saw a lot of good artists, but the only person willing to take me under their wing was Vento, who has no DA. He's a student in an animation major in Canada (I forget the school name). Through his encouragement I was able to broaden my view of drawing.
Now I have quite a few friends in the pchat community. And pchat is the only thing that keeps me in drawing because then I don't have to think about posting my work on DA in order for people to see it. Of course this makes me halfass my work so I can produce something cool within like 30 minutes. But that's my style, I don't have the patience of a real artist yet.
However, past month, I got a full time job as a research engineer for a software company so I do not have that much time to draw. That and I have been playing the new Warhammer MMO. So almost any time im at home not doing anything im playing that game. However that game has a nice mechanic that I can just idle and wait in a pvp queue then I'll just draw while I wait to get processed. Speaking of which, I'm on the clock right now! I need to get back to work
Until next year,
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Tired 
Yea I'm still in school dragging through the last quarter or two. Applying for places and now have homework to do.
I think I know who you're refering to as well 6.6. art is a good way to pass the time to create something worthwhile. So keep it up, you'll never know where you can use it.
I've been using a tablet myself since the start of this summer, and I've done some pretty neat things with it
There are some of us who will never be able to move beyond drawings reminiscent of relatively quick pchat doodles. I have trouble even moving past whiteboards and onto full featured pchats.
Hit me up for the next pchat jam... Niko completely bugged out on me last night and I wasn't able to connect to the session after the clear.