[jyuukai]

I do not see a reason for which you cannot do it now! You are 18 years old, why do you want to wait another couple of years? And you do not need to go to school to learn some basic stuff and develop your skills from there... The time is .:NOW:. :)

I actually learned the basics of the basics from Viesta but he refuses to show me anything else so I told Vak that he'll have to teach me

Using Photoshop isn't that hard, I'm not an art student but I find it fun. Much better than anything I did in art over my three years of doing it.