This is something that I have struggled with for the past 5-6 years now. I keep trying to tell myself that it’s okay to simply doodle things. It’s okay to not color my work. Comics don’t always need to be colored. But once I started getting out there on the internet, it’s been very hard for me to say no. I am a massive people pleaser and finding validation in my work keeps me going in life because I was never given that or being told by someone that they were proud of me when growing up.
But I’m always constantly being told to do things for myself for once as well. Especially in art and how finding validation in it has become more or chore than something fun to do. I need to draw how I want to draw. I need to draw what I want to draw. Who cares if it doesn’t make sense. Who cares if it’s cringy? Who cares if it’s my own world? I need to do things for myself for once.
And yet, I say all of this and I’m probably still not going to be able to help myself first. I tell myself this stuff all the time for the past 5-6 years and still haven’t been able to make a change…
