I was voted out at the first Last Painter Standing before the beginning of the contest, and I think my painting level has increased a lot in the past year and an half.
Here is a gaming mini I painted 7 months ago (I took the picture today). The LPS can only motivate me to give my best to do better paintjobs.
Voting for me will help to make the LPS a great international contest (as I'm French - that why there's a lot of faults in the things I write).