@J-Morgan-Looney looks like you had fun with them 🙂 nice work!

First off thanks for even being a teacher! Society benefits so much from all the effort teachers put in. And wow what a lovely owl painting ❤ It is clear from your story that you know what you want to do, but not sure how to go about it. I'll share what I did....because I am a freelance artist I don't make as much money as I did with my 9-5 job working on computers. To do the transition, I quite my full time job, accepted that I would have lower pay from now on. And moved. I moved to an area which cut my mortgage in half, I'm working towards being less dependent on my car, and even considering moving to a different country so I can get free healthcare. In the meantime also picking up part time work to support my creative endeavors. It is possibly to make a career from your creativity, but you have to be willing to take risks. All the best in wherever you go from here! Life is as limitless as your imagination.

@Erick-Reilly Thank you! 🙂

Hi, welcome! I can see improvement already in these drawings! ☺️

Since all of your characters are from the same angle you could try doing the gesture drawing course to get comfortable with more poses! I'm excited to see more of your work ☺️

@miranda-hoover thank you!! And yes!. I came up with that illustration from the prompt “Milky Way”

Hi! I realise I missed your arrival on the forum. Belated welcome !

@AnnaFleet Thank you Anna! 😄

HI there! 🙂

Love your stuff!

Welcome, love to have new people here. Thanks for joining in.

@Braden-Hallett
Okay, so its like that digital, natural media brushes? Cool stuff. Reminds me a little of Steven Silver's Characters. :smiling_face_with_open_mouth_smiling_eyes:

@Tyson-Ranes Thank you from Ohio!!

@DOTTYP Hello! Nice to meet you as well! I followed you also!

@harveywalls Thank you and good luck to you too! I followed you as well!

@bnewman Thank you so much!!

Very nice work @Ben-Migliore . I dig sci-fi, outer space and all of that fun stuff : )

@Dulcie Welcome 🙂 I'm relatively new as well (I think) and it's nice to be able to interact with other illustrator's this way. By the way, awesome image!