My public drawing posting started with DA few years ago =) I posted here every paper sketch I made in notebooks and was very scared of showing my art to someone who can just see it and comment, was afraid to see negative replies etc. But I posted and posted and nobody tried to hurt me)) I liked the process and was not afraid of critics as much as earlier. Started trying other styles and experiment with drawing styles. Time passed and now I'm a commercial artist =) I sell art and pretty confident in my skills =)) Now I don't post new sketches on DA as often as earlier - most of my works go to shop-sites, but all this started with DA and I won'