I want to ramble a little bit about art community morals. Self deprecating and shitting on your own art is not only harmful to yourself but every other artist who sees your content. Someone, beginner or not, could see your drawing and think, “Wow, I want to draw like them one day!” and then see you call your art a piece of shit. They’d look at their own art and think theirs is even worse or doesn’t deserve to be shown at all.
Every artist is insecure that they’re not good enough, or that their drawings need to be better, or that they lack in skill or quality or don’t have talent.
Talent doesn’t exist. Skill is born from painstaking practice and time.
Encourage your fellow artists. Encourage yourself. Being hard on yourself to improve is good, but to an extent. You could completely take away someone’s passion for drawing.
Learning to draw isn’t linear. It doesn’t even have an end goal. Art is meant to be fun, meant to represent and advocate and inspire and express. You don’t have to live up to anyone’s expectations or be on the same level as others you see around you. Focus on your passion, what makes art fun, and what YOU want to draw.
Maybe this is a hot take or something, but this is a mentality that I too am trying to drill into myself.
Be kinder to others in the community, and especially be kinder to yourself. You never know how many people you could inspire day by day.
