What So Punk said about styles - when I was taking art classes, there were people who were so good at doing all these feathery strokes and making such perfect representations - but I just couldn't do feathery. I was jealous too, but eventually realized I had my own style. You are learning different techniques in class? and maybe she is more adept at some? but that is not what defines an artist. An artist more than anything is about your personal truth and vision, and I don't understand how there is a "better" or competition in that? Unless you're doing doe-eyed waifs on velvet, in which case, lose my number...!