[kupoartist]

Your first four pictures are great... Sure, they're not perfect, but i'm pretty certain that I didn't draw as good as that in 1997 (it's debateable whether i'm any good even now!). It's always great to see how someone developed their art skills over time. You had great attention to detail, even back then!

Like Rei, I love your Shoujo Manga page My fave frames (manga is read from the top right to the bottom left, right? ^^) have to be the fifth and sixth... The materials in the fifth are great, and Aunt Lizzy is wonderfully drawn! In the sixth, It really looks like they are hugging, so you've posed it all perfectly. All in all, you've shown a variety of different poses and angles of your characters, and the designs have maintained continuity and frankly look great ^^. Your backgrounds aren't exactly dense IMO (not many objects or things going on, though the wall in the fifth frame looks great). Perhaps they don't need to be in these frames (I mean, the first is blank because Mia's thoughts are what are important, and the sixth is blank because the hug is all we actually need to see), but interesting backgrounds are important nonetheless (and probably really difficult to draw... like, you'd probably have to draw the settings of the London mansion and the New York skyline, or else you get no feel of where the characters are...).
Anyways, please, please keep drawing manga stories. They seem like a brilliant way of testing just how good an artist you are because you have to draw such a wide range of objects, poses, places and expressions - all whilst maintaining continuity! If you ever get really confident of your own work, seriously consider releasing your stories web-comic stylee - your art is better than that in some comics I read on a regular basis ^^ (and your story sounds interesting with it's "posh girl entering the real world" premise)