Sometimes you gotta look at something you just drew and say “Wow. I’m the artist I wanted to be a few years ago. There’s a new artist I want to be now, but I made it this far.”
And that’s a beautiful thing.
Quite often i’ll look at my art and go ‘you did it. you can draw that thing that 9 year old you wanted to be able to draw real bad but couldn’t. Nine year old you is so fucking smug right now. good job.’