Although I like manga I don't actually enjoy working with that style hence why I don't post work here at the base.
Btw I didn't went through art university, mainly because I chose engineerings, but I've been working as a hobby with PS and Corel for the last 10 years or so.
Another reason for my lack of interest in posting here, or in the majority of digital art communities is that I very rarely do character design, it's not that I don't paint people on my paintings because I do, it's simply because I rather make landscape or structures, cities, vehicles and so on and so forth and most people outside big art communities are almost exclusively interested on character design.
I'm also into photography, took a course 3years ago and since then I've been compounding my own reference and visual library using solely my own pictures. It's a great exercise and it truly cuts off on the google search for references which sometimes could take several days and by the time I had enough references I was no longer interested on the idea. Having your own library that you know intimately (because you took all the shots yourself) really cuts down this time and you can focus on getting only architectural representations of the styles meaning 3 or 4 google references are usually enough.
Now that I think about it your question was really a yes or no question. Sorry for the babbling
