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I'm asking you, my artist friends: Does the feeling of "I am bad at art" ever go away? Sure, it can be staved off when your art is well-received, but does that feeling ever go away entirely? I'm beginning to feel it doesn't, especially since I've had frank conversations with multiple artists - as good or far better than me - who've admitted that they still feel displeased with their work.

Considering that - and that those who ARE confident in their art are generally people like Chase the Hedgehog - how do I tell? I know that I've come a long way, because there was a time when I'd draw things like [link] . Look at this monstrosity. Gaze upon it. The head is five times bigger than the body, and the components of the head and face are arranged in no logical fashion. She obviously doesn't have arms of any sort. The crotch/leg mark on the shorts suggests that her left leg is twice as thick as her right leg, or something. And I've gone and sprained her ankle, to add injury to insult. Good lord, no wonder she looks displeased. To think, I actually drew like this. But while I don't draw quite so awfully any more, I still make the same damned dumb mistakes I've made before - I can't figure out anatomy. Perspective often whizzes past my head. And I still have absolutely no sense of three-dimensionality. The only thing that's really changed is that I've gotten slightly better about faking my way through these shortcomings - I still haven't actually learned how to do things RIGHT.

I can't go off peoples' compliments either, because even though people tell me that I'm a good artist now, they also told me that 2 and 3 and 4 years ago, when I KNOW what my drawings looked like then. People are blind to the concept of "my friend the 'artist' is not actually a good artist", or at least to the concept of telling somebody when their art sucks.

So I mean - what can I do? Compliments aren't going to help me feel better, so how about criticisms? I mean there are the classic things of "how about some guidelines and simple shapes to help guide your drawings you stupid shit", things I've been told before but I don't do or don't remember for whatever good or bad reason. You guys have any comments or thoughts or revelations here?

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Judging solely by current trends:

Before 2020, you will be able to purchase an SD card with 1 terabyte of information for under $50.

Not a single part of that statement fails to amaze me.

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I paid 10 dollars for this and, well, let me just say that I can think of a LOT worse things that I've paid dollars for.

CARRIE IS A GREAT ARTIST AND SHE IS SELLING HERSELF OUT LIKE A FILTHY WHORE SO YOU MAY AS WELL GET A CHEAP COMMISSION

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They are open! I will probably draw anything (though if you want me to draw something fetishy I can make no promise I will do it well). Prices are both low and negotiable.

I realize that I have sort of a bad track record for giftart, as pretty much can tell you! HOWEVER these same people will probably also tell you that I turn around trades with decent speed and responsibility! And since you are trading me cash money instead of simply sitting there and hoping to be showered with pictures, I PROMISE you that I will draw these with all reasonable speed and not just take the money and run!

Just keep in mind that a) I'm not starting anything until Friday (HELLO, FINALS WEEK) and b) I'm not going to show you the picture until I've received payment!

OKAY SO WHO WANTS ONE?

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Okay I KNOW that a lot of you fuckers have Mario Kart Wii, but I have the friend codes of exactly TWO people.

POST YOUR FRIEND CODES HERE AND WE WILL PLAY MARIO KART WII.

Mario Kart Wii: 4811-8065-2404
(for the sake of having these all in one place again:
Brawl: 0216-0491-4126
Wii code: 2876-3153-5188-7491
tB:RB: TBA)

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