When I first discovered DeviantArt (then stylized as deviantART) at the ripe age of 12, I was over the moon about it. Wow, a website just for artists! At the time I discovered it, I had exclusively visited Neopets as my online source of entertainment. Within Neopets, I was huge fan of the comics section of the user-run newspaper, The Neopian Times. Practically every cartoonist there had a DA account and I wanted to be apart of the community. So for the first time in my internet life, I lied about my age just to have a DA account.
I have considered myself an artist since I was a child. I spent my days doodling people, cartoon characters, simp