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My progress from 1999 to 2013 (15 years): The best thing I had going for me when I was learning to draw is that I didn’t know how bad of an artist I was. I didn’t have access to all of the amazing art that we have here on Deviantart, so I couldn’t compare myself against all of these awesome people. I could only compare my work against itself and see that it was getting better all the time. All you need is time and focused practice. I say “focused practice” and not just “practice” because you have to be purposeful in what you’re studying. There’s no magic bullet, no single thing you have t

Édouard Manet was a French painter who came to prominence in the 1860's and 70's. His work was controversial but highly inspirational to other artists at the time and was an important part of the transition from the Realism to Impressionism art movements. Édouard Manet, 1874 Born to an upper class family in Paris in 1832, Manet was expected to pursue a distinguished career such as the law or navy but chose to study art instead. He often visited the Louvre to study the work of the masters before him. Manet's early work fit well into the Realist movement, which had begun in the 1950's and remained popular. One of his first paint