Alright so this is kind of a funky one but lemme give some background.
There's a post that's been going around on Bluesky talking about how the only people who will ever be successful at art are those who are "naturally gifted" at it and that learning how to draw is like a hazing process that nobody enjoys. And obviously that's bullshit, humans have been making art for literally all of history, they're not doing that because they hate it. But you hear that kinda talk about different skills all the time, pretending that it's only ever available to those who are born naturally talented and in the process completely dismissing all the effort that people put in to learn their craft. Anyway that inspired me to find the oldest drawing I still had and redraw it. So I found back this old drawing I made for school when I was 4 years old. The assignment was to draw a self portrait, hence why there's text at the bottom that reads This is me. As you might be able to guess, mine wasn't super accurate. Obviously I'm way better at drawing now than I was back then, but that's because in the 21 years since I made that drawing I kept going and kept learning, because I simply enjoyed making art and wanted to be good at it. It's not mere natural talent that got me from where I started to where I am now and it's the same for every other artist out there