blog? :) one of the best things I ever did was start an illustration blog, I abandonned it last year as it achieved what I wanted (I improved my image making enough to get an agent)

I started doing illustration friday, where you illustrate a topic, people come and look at your work and say ;gee that's good' then you go and look at their work and go :wow, I really like how you used that colour in the right eye' etc.

But eventually you get an audience, people who you like, and then you start to try really hard to improve your work, becaue these pepole are 'nic e' and you don't want to serve them up crap, because they take the time to visit your work, so eventually you get better by small leaps and small bounds,

 

you can tell that people are coming by their comments and also the stats on the blog, so that gives you soemthing to work for,

 

eventually you get to a point where revisiting people's blogs who have visited yours becomes very time consuming so you give up, .... or I used to turn off the comment button which would drive people nutso