I got into drawing when I was 14 (15 now) and read a manga called 'Bakuman' from the creators of death note. So after trying to draw with trial and error, I thought that I might as well buy a book, so I bought artofotaku.com's book and it helped me alot. But I still cant say that I'm professional or someone that can draw awesome manga without guides. But I can draw quite decently. Later on in the same year, I moved to another school and met a guy the meets the same passion as me, but he was not THAT good at it. So we teamed up to make mangas and one-shots and we liked it. Now we're best friends thanks to art
Thanks,
SoK