Things I’ve Done as a Kid that Jevil Would probably Do Too

-Ate cereal with orange juice instead of milk

-Flipped off another kid in my preschool class as a greeting

-Cut my fingers with scissors on accident and then improvised by using the blood to draw a smiley face

-Got in trouble for teaching other preschoolers an inappropriate dance to “My Neck, My back” (My parents don’t even listen to that kind of music)

-Unironically liked Bee Movie and watched it like 50 times in a row

-Told other kids at my daycare that there were ghosts in the sanctuary (it was a church) and had to apologize the next day for giving one of them nightmares

I could probably go on but I think that says enough about the utter chaos I harnessed as a dumbass child

Dear Artists of All Kinds,

If you’re ever working on your next piece and find yourself thinking, “Why should I even complete this or share it with others? It won’t hold a candle to the works of better artists.”

Hold on. It’s normal for there to be people who are much farther along in their art journey than you, as well as people who are new to their voyage. If you feel you’re at the “bottom of the totem pole,” you have to remind yourself that those artists that you think are “better than you”? They were in that exact same position before, and they probably still experience those feelings of inadequacy sometimes. And you know what they did?

They kept going. They kept publishing their stories, whether it be fanfiction or wholly personal works even if they didn’t get very many hits or karma. They kept posting to deviantart (or what have you) even when they were only lucky enough to even get one comment. They kept posting to Youtube or Soundcloud with no listeners. It doesn’t matter how long you’ve been making art or how skilled you are in the present moment. Improvement stops the moment that you do, and so you must push onward and never give up.