The best thing to do would be to draw a lot. Mix in some drawing of things in real life along with what you like to draw. On top of that, try some studies or classes that people make in that forum (the free workshops are great, but require you to put forth some effort for them).
My xmas vacation is aproaching (spelling) then I have time to spend on forums. I am more active in bylur.com. In mind making into wc3 modding community. Thx for showing up interest.
I don't think I'm dealing with quite the same pressures though, at the very least its a significantly smaller system. For the time being I'm just going to put together a quick scrubby box though and hope it works good enough to not make my house toxic
I do know this - xenforo dropped the ball by not keeping the vbulletin reputation comments as a feature. The loss of the Reputation comments data when we switched to Xenforo really was the death knell for the site when it came to all the users that left. I know I missed it so much and I got way less interested in the site when that feature was gone and I run the site.