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HEY COON! SO I am trying to get back into art more after being super dead for almost 2 years after artschool. BUT now I just can't find the inspiration and/or motivation to do anything, plus whenever I manage to finish something (after millions of trashed sketches) I hate it half of the time. Any tips for a sad artist?

GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAASPS

BUUUUUUUUUUUUDDDYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY (ノ*°▽°*)

HEWWOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!

*PETS YOU*

Buddy, hello!! It’s been a while since I last heard about you, I’m happy to see you around!! (ノ*°▽°*) I mean, sometimes I see you in my activity, but we hadn’t properly talked in quite a while, and it’s great to hear from you again!! Seeing your icon made me happy. :3

Anyways, let’s see…

Tips for a sad artist, huh.(。。 )ゝ

Wh- waIT

WHAAAAAAAAAAAT

YOU!?!?!?! NOT LIKING YOUR ART!?!??! AHDAWBHFPASD BUDDY WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOOOOOOOOOOOUT!?!?!?

Ohmy GAWD, I’m thinking about that Gladio art that you made, with the super detailed and amazingly designed braids and the badass and cool artstyle and this super awesome art aND THEN I THINK YOU’RE NOT LIKING THE THINGS YOU MAKE AND I’M SITTING HERE LIKE WUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUT ASJDHJGHDA FHA NO WAAAAAAAAAY!!

WHY WOULD AN AMAZING ARTIST LIKE YOU NOT LIKE WHAT THEY’RE MAKING AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH, I admit I haven’t seen more of your art, but the piece I saw is INCREDIBLE and I goddamn LOVE every inch of it WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT OH MY GAWD ASDHDGKLA KJF DKLGALKDJ

*UNCONTROLLABLY FLAILS LIKE A DESPERATE TURTLE ON ITS BACK*

Okay, BUT that’s actually understandable. I don’t know WHY but it happens sometimes that INCREDIBLE artists don’t like what they do. And you know what I think? I think that some of the most commons reasons is, either they were bullied in the past about their works, OR even more dangerous, artist is a PERFECTIONIST. And it’s USUALLY THAT LAST CASE ZOMG ヽ(°〇°)ﾉ

Okay, buddy, Imma gonna answer this the best that I can, okay?

For anyone interested, Coon talks under the cut about how artists can find inspiration and/or motivation, perfectionism, and what to do when you hate your art.

Tips for a sad artist! ヽ(・ω・)ﾉ

First of all, and as I always think is necessary to clarify, I’d like to keep it clear that I’m neither an artist nor a professional counselor. I’m a raccoonie with no more than its personal philosophies and a lot of positivity and kindness to offer.

I’m not telling you what to do, or how to do it. I’m offering some personal experiences or thoughts, and suggestions, but in the end it’s always in your hands to do as you consider wisest. Alright, buddy?

*pets you*

Said, that, off to try to answer this! /o/

First of all, CONGRATULATIONS!!! (ﾉ´ヮ`)ﾉ

Going back to art is something not everyone takes. I think that you love making art, so going back to it is really a wonderful and brave move. It would be so easy to stay in your comfort zone and not go back to it, because it takes so much effort and time, and you’d rather just eat cheetos and rot in boredom, am I right? How easy it would be, to not go back. But you did!!! And that is AMAZING!

Buddy, I’m proud of you just by the fact that you’re trying to get back to art. It’s something not anyone does, especially dealing with the struggles you’re going through as you’re making your way back into art, so it really, really takes something and I think that’s AMAZING and so AWESOME!!

LOUD CHEERS AND HOORAYS FOR YOU, MY FRIEND, I’M SO PROUD OF YOU AND SO HAPPY FOR YOU!!! ٩(◕‿◕)۶

Congratulations on having the courage and the firmness of going back and fight those struggles to do what you love to do!!!

Also, buddy, know that by just having the intention of going back to art after 2 years, you’ve already given the first step.

Really, I don’t know how to say it enough. Staying in your comfort zone is what most do, and having the courage and daring to go back to something that takes time and effort and a lot of struggle talks about someone determined to do it. Letting go of the fear of the water and going into the pool is the hardest part; learning to float and swim takes longer, yes, but you’re already in the water, which is the most important and vital of steps. You’ve gotten over the hardest part, so know that you can do the rest even if it takes a bit of effort.

Now, I don’t know where to go. We have lack of motivation/inspiration, lots of trashed sketches before choosing a final piece, and hating it half of the time. Hm.

Lack of motivation/inspiration.

I think it’s important to mark the difference between Motivation and Inspiration

Motivation: I feel/don’t feel like drawing.

Inspiration: I feel like drawing and I know what I will and I have this idea and that idea and I know how I’ll do this and that and then I’ll make this and-

You can have one without the other. It’s rare to have inspiration and not motivation, because insspiration usually brings forth the motivation. But it’s very, very, VERY common to have the motivation and not the inspiration. What do you do when you want to draw and lack the inspiration?

There’s this saying, you know, I always forget who said it. But it says something like “Of course inspiration exists. But you must make sure that when it finds you, it finds you working”.

Let’s be real; when we say we’re “waiting for inspiration” we’re just not trying. Art is not sitting in a corner alone doing nothing but eat popcorn and waste our lives away waiting for the moment that Lady Inspiration decides to come in and do the work for us. No; consider inspiration as a very loving but difficult lover. Love it, let it take you, let it do wonders with you, but when it gets moody, don’t give it the pleasure of seeing you struggle. Don’t depend on it; just because lady inspiration is not showing up doesn’t mean you can’t have a good time or do stuff alone. She was late to the date? What a shame, but not because you’re waiting for her you’re going to let that extra expensive extra delicious hot coffee get cool, right?

Don’t depend on the presence of lady inspiration. Let her know you don’t need it; that if she appears you two can have fun together, but that she’s not a necessity. Show her you will drink that hot coffee and enjoy it whether she arrives or not; that you can work alone whether she’s present or not.

This means DRAW. Draw and draw and draw when you feel like drawing or want to draw whether lady inspiration is here or not. Now, this doesn’t mean you have to FORCE yourself to draw. Anything that’s made by force is useless. It’s like a fart; if you have to force it, it’s most likely it will come out as shit. It’s not about forcing yourself to do it, it’s just about not depending on inspiration; you feel like drawing but there’s no inspiration? Draw anyway. You don’t feel like drawing? Don’t draw. Even if there’s inspiration, because it CAN happen. It’s rare, but it can happen that there’s inspiration but not motivation, and that’s okay. Don’t draw. Your body and mind know what they want and need, and if they’re rejecting the idea of drawing, listen to them. Don’t force yourself to something you don’t want to do. Think of yourself as a friend; you would get upset at a friend that was trying to force you to draw for them, even if they’re your friend, right? So why don’t you get upset when You are trying to force you to draw too? It’s the same. Ignore that bad You and listen to good, real You and what they need.

Summarizing, don’t force yourself to draw if you don’t want to, but if you feel like it, do, whether there’s inspiration or not. Inspiration exists but it has to find you working; don’t let your art depend on inspiration or inspiration will notice and take cantage of it and will abuse of your dependence on it. Don’t let it. Draw alone, for yourself, show that bitch of a muse that you don’t need her. Ironically, it’s the fact that you’ll show her that you don’t need her what will make it impossible for her to abuse of you, because you don’t depend on her and hence she doesn’t have you in her grasp, and what will make the relationship healthy and useful; showing her you won’t die without her will make her see you’re good as you are and lend you a hand in a good way.

Not having motivation is okay, and you should listen to yourself. I don’t know if it’s the same, but I take my writing as example; sometimes I sit here and I think “I should write for this fic”, but I just don’t want to. No matter how much I force myself to, I don’t want to. So I close it and I think “I think that even though it’s been longer since i updated fic 1, I really feel like writing fic 2 instead”.

And you know? That’s fine.

What I mean to say is, something it’s not that you’re not motivated. Sometimes it’s that you want to force yourself to be motivated for a certain thing, when in reality you’re motivated to do something else. Explore what you want and listen to yourself and what the inner you is asking from you; not because you think you want to draw Drawing 1 means you WANT to do it. Sometimes we THINK WE WANT something or WANT TO WANT something, but that is entirely different to WANTING something.

Listen to yourself, the inner you, what it has to say. Listen to what you really, really want to draw or do. And even if it’s not what you wanted to want, when you figure what it is that you really want to draw, you’ll find that it’s easy to get on it, and, sometimes, that even makes inspiration come too.

Now, what if there is NO motivation though? What if it’s not that you don’t want to draw Drawing 1 and instead draw Drawing 2, but you’d rather not draw any of them?

That’s fine. It’s as I said, don’t force yourself to draw. Wanting to want to draw is very different to wanting to draw. I hope I’m not confusing you too much. What I mean to say is, it’s phenomenal that you want to get back to art, but that doesn’t mean you have to force yourself to. The wish is there, so the motivation will be there; if it’s not here today, it doesn’t mean you’re doing wrong or that you’re not progressing. You just don’t want to draw today, and that’s okay.

If you sit to draw and find you don’t want to, explore if maybe you’d rather draw something else, and so on and on until you run out of ideas. If it turns that you don’t feel like drawing anything, that’s okay!! Art is not born from drawing every minute every day every week. Art is born when an artist wants to draw, not when they force themselves to draw. Art is more than just sitting to draw; it’s getting up to go for a walk, breathe in the air of the park, watch TV or a movie, play a game, go do something and literally anything else.

Recently I hit a point where I really didn’t feel like writing anything. So I went to play FFXV Comrades for the first time, and spent most my evenings gaming instead of writing. And you know? It’s made wonders to me. It took from me the pressure of thinking I MUST have this or that for tomorrow, and while it did slow me a lot, it improved my writing. Because the more you force yourself to do it, the more you mine your skills instead of letting them grow, and when you rest you’re just recharging energy.

Think of it like your muscles. Exercise is good, but over-exercising is not, and it will reach a point where your muscles can’t take more. If you keep going, you’ll just end up hurting your muscles and actually tearing them apart and not only will all the progress you made go to waste, but you’ll also be unable to walk for a good couple days. In exhange, though, if you stop over-doing it, and if you take a couple days of rest, it’s not harming your progress, you’re just letting your muscles relax and be back in shape so you can go back to your usual exercise routine. You’re not “skipping one day” or “lowering your level”, you’re balancing yourself to not explode.

Summary; draw when you want, don’t force yourself to do it, but don’t wait for inspiration either, work with or without it.

Now, what if you really do want inspiration, though?

That’s a tricky question. I guess it depends on what you want to draw.

I guess I’ll tell you what everyone else would say; music. It’s no secret that like 99% of creatores play music to gather some inspiration for what they do. There are many playlists of 4 hours or such of “inspirational” music; you can even search for more specific things, as there are playlists made for specific sort of inspirations (sad playlists for those making something sad, cheerful ones, suspense ones, even fantasy music playlists, etc).

On my humble and subjective opinion, I dare say that music is perhaps one of the best tools for a creator’s source of inspiration. I think that music is the most beautiful of arts because it’s the most abstract; we don’t see it, or can touch it, it’s temporary because it exists only as long as it’s playing, it’s not material. It’s only the air around us vibrating and making the air shake at certain frequences. And it’s because it’s the most abstract of arts why it’s the less…how do I say it, influenced one??? Like, because it’s so abstract, your brain will interpret it the way it wants. A piano piece that can be calm to me may be sad to someone else, for example.

A ballet or a play or a painting, we see what the artist made and nothing more. But music? While it of course influences a lot whether it’s a happy or sad melody, you can still interpret it the way you want. We rely too much on our eyes for dance, theatre, and visuals, but music will go straight to your brain and give you images that no one else has; even if alike and very similar, no one will have the same mental image than you unless it’s made as something physical.

So yes, I would suggest music. If you feel like drawing something sad, go play something sad; if you feel like drawing a dragon, maybe fantasy music will do; if you want to draw this or that, there will be something that fits.

For example, I’m writing a beauty and the beast AU fanfic. The chapters are usually 14k words each. You can easily tell that the way I get lazy at times, or with the pressure of how long it is, and hence that I easily drop it if I’m not inspired. But I want to go on, I want to write it, but have no inspiration. So what do I do? I go look for that piano album of the film’s soundtrack. I can write 7k in one day thanks to that. What I can’t do in 2 weeks, 1 playlist makes me do it in one evening.

That’s why I personally suggest music (lyric-less, preferably), but it may not work for everyone.

So what if music is not your jam for inspiration?

Then go for a walk, free your head. Look at other artworks; watch a cool video or cartoon. Look at book covers, read a book or a fanfic, get excited over something, read, watch, listen to, or look at something that makes you get excited, that gives you mental images, that makes you want to be that hero or protagonist, and let that excitement build up more and more and let it take over and make it inspire you and make it make you grab that pencil and start sketching, and if your hype starts dying, listen to that game’s OST, look at that book’s cover again, re-read that passage, anything. Keep the hype up. Get excited.

I’m sorry for the length of this aaah, I’m gonna try to keep it short now hndnghgfh

Now, about your thousands of trashed sketches and hating half the finished things you make, you know what I think? I think you’re just being harsh on yourself.

There’s not a worse critic for a creator than themselves. We look at what we made and it’s never 100% exactly like we saw it in our heads, it’s not good enough, it can be better, it turned out so bad, I don’t have the skill to make it as I imagine it, this this this THIS THIS THIS STOOOOOOOOOOOOOP!!!

I know the thinking because sometimes I’m the same with my writing, and I know lots of artists that are like that, and a lot of musicians, etc. It took me years to understand, and evne understanding it doesn’t get rid of the problem, but understanding it at least makes me stop to realize what I’m doing and know I’m wrong and it’s fine.

No. It’s not not good enough; it didn’t turn out bad; you don’t not have the skill. No, no, NO. It’s NOT that way, buddy, no!!

The problem is called perfectionism and self-criticism. We’re made thought by people and society and the world and even our teachers themselves that we have to be EXCELLENT at what we do; that we have to be the best, and if not the best, at least EXCELLENT and perfect at what we do it we want it to be acceptable or god. And it’s not true; this is bullshit. Utter, magnificent bullshit.

It’s okay to want to be number 1, and it’s okay to want to get better and do better things. But there’s a difference between “I want to get better” to “fuck, I’m useless and must be better”. No! There are so many things to say about this I don’t even know where to begin. But the most valuable advice on this is

Love what you’re doing. Sounds easy. But I don’t mean that you must love drawing as the act itself; love what you draw. Even if it’s bad; even if you don’t like it, even if people hate it, even if it’s trash. Love it. Take that piece of paper in your hands and look at it. And even if it’s trash, even if it’s horrible know that it came from you.From your time and effort. From your passion and your skills. This was born from you. A mother doesn’t hate her child because it’s ugly or with no talent. So why would you hate anything you make?

A lot of the problem with perfectionism and self-criticism is the way we look at things, the perspective. And I’m going to gift you the best perspective that will fix your problem; love what you make. Take it with a positivity so positive it makes you feel stupid. Be like Kuzco; over-love yourself and what you do. Imagine that the place where you just stepped is glittering because you’re FABULOUS, imagine every thing you do is as fabulous and amazing. You fell in public? You look RADIANT doing it. You chocked on a grape? You’re FABULOUS on it.

Your drawing sucks? It’s trash and you hate it and it’s ugly and anatomy is horrible and the perspective is bad? WHAT A DRAWING. IT’S HORRIBLE AND UGLY AND YOU LOVE IT LIKE THAT.

It’s honestly an advice for anything in life. With that philosophy I defeated my problems of lack of confidence, and it’s thanks to that philosophy that I’m the hyper positive and kind creature that I am today, and the reason you’re asking me for advice.Because if you asked, you think even if just on a 1% that I’m capable of replying, right? And that’s because of how positive I am most of the time.

It’s thanks to that Kuzco philosophy. It’s not egocentric; so long you’re not harming anyone, yourself included, exaggerate that love, even if you’re lying. Because a lie said a thousand times turns into a truth. But I’m digressing; what I mean is, apply that to your drawings.

It’s ugly. It’s horrible. ACKNOWLEDGE THAT. Don’t lie to yourself and tell you that’s the best you can do because it’s not. Do encourage yourself to do better. But LOVE what you made as ugly as it is. LOVE it. Love its ugliness. Love how bad it is. It’s a drawing you made, it comes from you, it’s something no one else can do, and it’s ugly? Yes, but it’s YOURS. So you will LOVE it. You will look at it, smile, love it, and then move on to try again and better.

Next time you hate a drawing, and listen to me, and OBEY ME; next time you hate a drawing, you will look at it, and you WILL NOT THINK, WILL NOT THINK “it’s so horrible, I must do better”. You will think “It’s not the best I can do, I can do better”. There is a HUGE difference between “I hate what I’m doing and need to get better!” and “I don’t like what I do but it’s part of my progress, and I’m on my way to be better”.

Really, buddy, it’s like physical appearances. If you’re overweight and trying to lose weight, you don’t hate yourself for being fat. You take the fact that you’re fat, you acknowledge it, but you don’t hate it. You don’t tell to yourself it’s fine and you will stay there and do nothing about it; you take it, accept it, and work on it WITHOUT hating yourself. It’s unnecessary, and really only does harm. It’s not about hating yourself until you get the results you wanted, it’s about loving yourself in whatever state you are, while still seeking to improve.

Art like life is not a goal but a process. You’re not supposed to love your art only when it’s as you want it. You’re supposed to love your art from the beginning to the end, from the first terrible sketch you ever made to the most amazing painting you’ll ever make. There is really a huge difference between doing something and hating it and forcing yourself to be better, to acknowledge what you’re doing is not the best you can do, but accepting it and loving it nonetheless.

Buddy.

If you want me to hyper summarize it, I’ll just say

Don’t be so harsh on yourself.

:)

Buddy…life makes you think you have to bully yourself. That if you don’t leash yourself, you’re not making any progress. We were raised by being hit instead of encouraged; instead of talking to us about why doing our homework is important, they would hit us until we made it and got higher grades. And that develops into how we treat ourselves; instead of encouraging yourself to get better, you’re hitting ourself because you’re “not good enough”. So what? No one is born a Michaelangelo. Not even Michaelangelo was born doing what he did. He learned. He made a first doodle, once. Painted when he wanted, what he wanted, regardless of how bad it was. Progressed eventually. No one is born knowing how to run; that other kids do it before you, yes. But you’re not other kids, you’re you. We all work at our pace, we all have our time of doing things.

Even the kids that learned to run sooner than you did first had to learn to walk, and before walking they had to learn to crawl. The fact that someone learned to run before you doesn’t mean you’re out of time, or too old to learn, or that you will never learn. In this metaphor, you’re literally a toddler. You HAVE time. You WILL learn. Just stop looking at other kids running, look at the floor, and push it with those little legs. You won’t learn to run if you spend all your time watching other kids run instead of trying yourself. Right?

You know, I loved my own vision of “they taught us by hitting us so that stays with us”. And I think I can’t explain or use it enough.

What I think you’re doing is exactly that. Because you’re not getting the results you want, you’re lashing yourself and tortuing and punishing, when it’s not about that. It’s not about punishing yourself because you didn’t get what you wanted; it’s about sighing, petting yourself on the head, and say “It’s fine. I will try again”. No need to punish yourself, why would you do that?

So you lower that arm, and let go of that lash. And you stop hitting yourself. Okay? From now on, I don’t want you to punish yourself; every time you make something you didn’t like, you will calmly talk with yourself about what you did wrong and about how you can do better, but no more hitting or nagging, okay, buddy?

Art is…the way for humans to vent things out. Be it positive or negative emotions, art is a way to take what we have inside and put it out before it rots inside us. Art is meant to clean the soul and ease the heart. Art is meant to be good, to be kind to us, to be gentle. Don’t use it as a weapon against yourself. Don’t weaponize it. Why would you take the most beautiful thing humankind has ever made and make it a weapon? Why would you take the tool that serves to clean and heal your soul and use it to harm yourself?

Enjoy what you do. Even if it’s horrible. Sing out of tune, draw with no anatomy, dance without grace. It’s not about how perfect it is, about how good you are at it; it’s that you have the courage to make it anyway, regardless of its quality. Quality comes with practice; getting better is just a matter of constant practice. But the passion for what you do, the love for what you do, that’s not something you make; it’s something that’s born on its own.

Do what you love, that’s clear, but we forget to love what we do. You draw because you love it, don’t you? Then love what you draw, too. It’s about balance; don’t focus your love in the action of drawing alone, balance it between doing what you love and loving what you do. That’s the only and true recipe for success. Do what you love, and love what you do. Don’t forget.

There’s another saying that says that those that look for perfection will die unsatisfied. Perfection is not real, buddy. Perfection is in the eye of the (I forgot the word). It’s subjective. You can make something that a great majority of people will enjoy,, but never something that everyone will enjoy, and never something perfect. Perfect is, to me, just a compliment. Not a fact; not something real. Perfect is fake; perfect is not real.

So why try to achieve it? It’s fine to want to be excellent at what you do. But if you ALWAYS think you can do better, and if you’re never satisfied, you’ll be miserable. Doesn’t it make sense? If you go all your art life saying “I can do better” and never be satisfied with what you do, you’ll surely die without ever being satisfied. It’s great and healthy to want to get better, but, agian, there’s a difference between being satisfied with what you do and aspire to do better next time, than never like what you do, never be satisfied, and thinking you’ll like the next, and repeat, and repeat.

So change that philosophy, okay? From now on, think positive. It’s as simple as loving what you make, even if it’s ugly. You’re making what you love, so now love what you’re making.

Also, I would suggest posting even if you don’t think it’s perfect.

You don’t need to post and share EVERYTHING if you’re not comfortable with it. But even the things you don’t share, love them. Post what you’re comfortable with posting, share what you want to share, never force yourself to post if you don’t want to. But also know that many times you don’t see your work as the public does, and what may be trash for you may truly be beautiful to everyone. Sometimes, I’m not confident on my writing, and I think it’s trash, but I post it anyway, becuase I already know that there’s 90% of chances that it’s not trash and it’s just me being perfectionist and too harsh on myself.

And you know? Not once have I ever regretted it. Most times, the things I think are more garbage are my most popular stuff. One time, for example, I posted this rushed draft of a story that I wasn’t comfortable with. It’s one of my most popular stories nowadays, and one of those that have received the most comments and love. I have two, three, many cases like that, of things I think are trash and I share anyway, and turn out to be brilliant to everyone else.

And it’s not that people love garbage. IT’s that it’s NOT garbage. You’re just hard on yourself.

Buddy. What you’re making is good enough. It’s 100 times better than what you can see. You saw it when it was but a blank page, you saw it when it was blurry lines, so you can’t see the final result. Your brain saves the pictures from when it was a mess of blurry sketched lines, so your brain thinks it’s still incomplete. When truth is, it’s perfect as it is. It doesn’t need to be perfect to be perfect. And what’s better, it doesn’t need to be perfect to be beautiful.

Wouldn’t you prefer making something beautiful to something perfect? Because I do. :)

But yes. What I mean is, I would suggest you share some of the things you’re happier with even if you’re not 100% confident on it, because 99 of the times you’re just blinded by your perfectionism. But we the public are not. We see what you can’t. What you make may be absolutely beautiful, but how will you know if you don’t show anyone else but yourself?

So go ahead, tiger, lazy neon chocobo. Draw without inspiration; make inspiration come to you; love what you draw, even if it’s ugly; share.

If I had to summarize it all in as few words as I could, I would say what I’ve been saying all this time.

Love what you make.

That is, I guess, the final advice. As in the ULTIMATE WEAPON. REally, it all revolves about loving what you make regardless of how “beautiful” it is or not. If you love what you’re making, you will reduce the lack of motivation. If you love what you’re making, you will attract more inspiration. If you love what you’re making, there will be less trashed sketched, and you will reduce the times that you hate the results.

There’s a reason they say love is the most powerful thing in the world. We think it’s about loving someone else, but it’s not just that. It’s about loving ourselves. Loving what we do. When you love yourself and what you do regardless of what it looks like, you’ve already won.

And take it as a personal advice. I can tell you I hated both myself and everything I made until I started loving it, but I didn’t start loving me only when I saw I was close to what I wanted to be; I got close to what I wanted to be because I started loving myself. You don’t…really, you don’t love yourself only when you’re a champion. You love yourself when you’re a loser, when you’re in the way, and when you’re a champion. You love yourself and all that you make all through the process, not just at the end. You don’t love your art only when it’s as you want it to be; you love your art because it’s yours.

Think of your art as someone else. You see what you’re doing? You’re hating this person and hitting them and being aggressive with them only because they’re not “good enough” and not what you want them to be. And you will love them only when they’re a champion. See how it doesn’t work that way? You love this peerson because of who they are, not because of who they will be. You don’t hit them whent hey fail, you encourage them to do better. You don’t hate this person as they progress and love them when they’re a champion, you love themfrom the beginning regardless of what they are or how far they’ll go.

You won’t love your art when it’s a champion; your art will be a champion when you love it.

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I think that’s it? Knowing myself, I probably forgot to say many things But in all honesty I feel like this has gotten too long and I don’t want to bore you or make it a heavy read, aah. I’m so sorry I got so carried away. ^^;

I just really want to help.

Also, I’m sorry it took me a bit to reply; you can see it took me a while to write this, and I was not in my brightest moments the past days, so I didn’t want to answer when I was a grey cloud of negativity. It would have been hypocrite and everything would have been empty. So I waited until what I said really came from my heart. I hope that you can feel it!

ANYWAYS BUDDY, THAT’S WHAT I THINK!! ヽ(・ω・)ﾉ

I hope I could help even if just to lift your spirits a bit, buddy! I’m sorry if anything I said rubbed you the wrong way, I didn’t mean it like that! And I hope that you can find soon whatever it is that you need to love what you’re making and grab that confidence you need for your art. In a personal opinion, I think you’re GREAT! So I hope you can see that soon, too :)

Again, buddy, it made me sooooooooooooooo, so, so very happy to see from you again!!! I’m sorry I say bye in such a quiet way as compared to my usual bubbliness but, wow,am I tired now, haha!! But trust me, I’m very sincere when I tell you that it’s made me so, so, SO VERY HAPPY to see you around, buddy!!! Thank you so much for brightening my day with your presence in my inbox, and thank you for giving me that bit of trust to share your problems, and that bit of trust to ask me for advice!!!

It means a lot to me. It feels like you think I’m worthy of a bit of your trust and that’s beautiful. Thanks a lot for sharing this with me, and for thinking about me when you were/are in need of some aid, even if it’s just to cheer you up. ٩(◕‿◕)۶

I hope you find your ninja way in art soon, my dear fella mate! I hope I could be of help!

And I hope you’re having a MOST FANTASTIC day!! (ﾉ´ヮ`)ﾉ

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