Becoming an artist is the successful meld between desire and determination. There are times when the desire to see the completed work on page (or screen) overrides the very real need to acquire, add to, and enhance existing skill sets. This will not be discouraging if the prospective artist accepts that his or her talent will always need to be viewed as a process and that there is no deadline or completion date on ability: it will need to remain fluid, malleable, open to the benefits, at times, of severe reversals. That is why community participation in this area is so important; no one whose work is highlighted on conceptart.org has found one true holy grail to artistic excellence, rather, it is the collectivity of many diverse and unique mini-grails, as it were, that provide the bridgestones from competence to brilliance.

Everyone here was helped or inspired by others; you may on occasion be intimidated by the range of extreme ability evident here. Use it as a creative stoke instead of allowing envy to put a brake on your efforts. As you grow, your awe may turn into a subtler admiration. But always keep your determination on equal footing with your desire.