Hi everyone - I'm Carmen from the UK 
At the moment I am a mature student just coming up to my final project on an Art & Design course. I am hoping to one day be able to call myself an illustrator. I stumbled across this site by happy accident. We had to pin up favourite images at our desks to show the tutor what styles we admired and one I pinned up (I hope you don't mind Lee ) was a picture by Lee White of a little girl riding seahorses through the night in a dark house. (I also pinned up some Dave McKean and Chris Riddell)
Thinking about coming to the big project I know I want mine to be illustration based and probably watercolour - maybe mixed media. So I clicked through on the link for the online tutorials on the website next to that image and here I am. I am so pleased to find this community - I am blown away by what I've seen. I have deferred my uni place for at least a year due to my little one being half days at school and was wondering how to keep up the level of creativity/learning that I am doing at the moment when I finish in May (I am easily distracted. I can't lie.) I think I have found the perfect solution. I can't wait to start learning with you all.