So... yeah. -edit-

Take a look at my old deviations. Take a good, long look.

They suck. They are horrible, horrible reflections of who I used to be and what consumed my spare time.
As time moved on, they got better.
It showed I was improving.
And then... nothing. I stopped submitting art.

Why did I stop? Was it because I was ashamed of my art? Was it because I didn't feel people would care to see it?

I stopped because I knew that being an artist wasn't who I wanted to be. It took me virtually my entire life up to that point to figure it out, but I did. And when I did, I didn't hide all my stupid drawings of Dark Jak and my sub-par animations of "Steve". I left them up, because even I knew at the time, people really liked them, regardless if I thought they were good or not.

This echoes Rattlekitten's point, but it's still valid. I think my old art is a blight on the world, but I accept that it's here now and I wouldn't remove it for anything. It, in a way, documents my life during those early high school years where I was obsessed with Dark Jak, Zerg, etc. I'm 20 now, and I look back at it not with regret, but with fulfillment. Those things I view as mistakes actually got me to where I am now, which I can assure you is a much better place to be than before.

You have always seemed to me to really want to be an artist. That's fine, but do you really? You might be at a point where you are either not confident in your own skills (which is silly when you've got years to perfect them) or you're uninterested in art. You already know the answer for the confidence problem (practice!), but if it's an interest issue than you may need to evaluate what it is that interests you, whether that be IT, journalism, or fighting censorship laws in your country. Honestly, those all sound really interesting to me, so take some time to figure out what is really at issue here.

And as always you can chat with me anytime I'm online.