I've been drawing manga seriously for about three years. Before that I thought they were just Cartoons. I guess I've been drawing a manga style since I was very young, but I never knew what it was, or that it was any different. I grew up on One Piece, Gundam (Multiple different series), Dragon Ball, Pokemon, Digimon, and Yu-Gi-Oh!. I loved those shows, and wanted to draw like they did. Back then, I thought people made cartoons with sticky notes. I had no idea what anime/manga were until a moved to Dunn, and met my non-biological brother, Andrew, who drew it. I then began to feverishly watch anime, and spent almost two years catching up on the popular anime (Bleach, Naruto, One Piece, Rurouni Kenshin, Fairy Tail, etc.), and then started to read the manga, because it was farther along. I've been reaading manga for a year now.