Helloooo fellow GIMP...er...GIMPians?

I'm commonly known as Dwarf on my online sites, I've been pursuing digital painting (with...you guessed it...GIMP) for about a year now? Perhaps two...anyways, I've started getting serious about it again these past few months.

I'm hoping to turn it professional with time. c: My main art site is DeviantART, but I really needed a GIMP specific question answered and I remembered scoping out this place in the past, so here I am! I'm excited to be a little part of your lovely community here. ^^
You can see examples of my recent work in my
Gallery. I think I consider
Top of the World to be my best yet, but I am in the middle of something that I'm hoping may turn out even better with what I've been learning in the meantime.
Aaand if you can't tell, I'm having more fun than I should scoping out your smiley collection 