I’m Starting To Draw Again
I haven’t really posted much about my art on here. A few years ago, I took quite a big knock to my confidence. I had been asked by someone that I thought was a friend to do a pet portrait. This was a commission and I was expecting payment for it.
So, I did the initial drawing. I then sent a progress picture. The friend looked at the message, but didn’t respond. She then, about six weeks later, messaged me to say that the drawing was terrible and that she wouldn’t be paying for it.
I was quite upset and my confidence took a massive knock. It made me lose my love for art for a very long time. It has actually stopped me from doing much in the way of art, because I felt like I wasn’t good enough.
Now, my confidence is not the best anyway, but you can imagine the impact that this had on me. Rather than trying to put the images in my head on paper, I crushed them all down and instead, I watched others make beautiful art and convinced myself that I could never be like them.
Recently though, I’ve done a lot of thinking, and I’ve decided enough is enough. I’m tired of seeing other people putting their art out there, and squashing mine down, just because of someone who clearly wasn’t a friend in the first place.
