What/Who made you want to do what you do now and how has that changed? 
/mine/
In I think 5th grade when I first got my computer/room I started to try to draw manga and anime after the guy on youtube named Mark Crilley 
http://www.markcrilley.com/ (http://www.markcrilley.com/) I tried to draw the exact same thing that was on the screen before I started to draw shit on my own.
I also learned a little from http://bleedman.deviantart.com/gallery/ (http://bleedman.deviantart.com/gallery/) I first found him through you tube as well looking at a video of his comics, http://ppg.snafu-comics.com/ (http://ppg.snafu-comics.com/) I used to draw a shit load of gore after I found his stuff even though his comics didn't even have much blood in them
I hate both of their styles now, they're too stereotype anime for me.
/now/ 
Now I'm trying to draw more cartoony stuff because of how lazy my lines look when I draw anime and how the expressions I draw don't go with the faces at all. Im currently inspired by http://aquasurfer.deviantart.com/ (http://aquasurfer.deviantart.com/) and http://xiao-tong.deviantart.com/ (http://xiao-tong.deviantart.com/) because firstly with Aqua, her fucking noses are lovely along with her heads and I just cant describe how much I love her drawing's expressions.
As for Xiao, I like her drawings because of how she colors them. For example, in this speedpaint she did http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=brS3CvK7y_8&feature=channel&list=UL
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