![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
I mean, he's eleven. For one thing, he's a good if eccentric artist, and for another, what the hell, eleven year olds are alowed to draw however the hell they want. So is everyone else, for that matter.
Here's the thing: for years I've only drawn anything very occasionally because I've never thought I was very good at it. And I'm probably not. I tend to stall a lot at writing for the same reason, though I can write pretty well - but I am, you know, not a genius, so do I really have the right? Liv Strömqvist has done a comic about this phenomenon, and I'll scan and translate it some time soon, I think.
Her point is basically: fuck that. Do you like doing it? OK! Do it! Unapologetically!
And maybe that's how you get good at it, and maybe you will never be good at it, but if you do it with confidence because you enjoy it then who cares.
This really should be obvious but it's something I've had a lot of trouble with. It's something most of us have trouble with.
Excuse me. I have a malformed crocodile or something to draw.
Here's the thing: for years I've only drawn anything very occasionally because I've never thought I was very good at it. And I'm probably not. I tend to stall a lot at writing for the same reason, though I can write pretty well - but I am, you know, not a genius, so do I really have the right? Liv Strömqvist has done a comic about this phenomenon, and I'll scan and translate it some time soon, I think.
Her point is basically: fuck that. Do you like doing it? OK! Do it! Unapologetically!
And maybe that's how you get good at it, and maybe you will never be good at it, but if you do it with confidence because you enjoy it then who cares.
This really should be obvious but it's something I've had a lot of trouble with. It's something most of us have trouble with.
Excuse me. I have a malformed crocodile or something to draw.
