Regarding 1,000 followers

Just a small tidbit, but Nexx’s lack of enthusiasm in that picture was purely how I felt he would think on that subject.

I myself happen to be very grateful for the milestone, and I should like to draw something even a bit more celebratory for it!

I’ve been thinking about bigger things recently. It’s been forcing my hand in ways that I wouldn’t have found acceptable before. Placing time aside to focus on myself and to think on who I’d like to be, and how possible it is to become those things.

I’ll admit, it’s hard to just cast my old ways of thinking aside. Every now and again the insecurities I feel and the envy I have will sneak back up, and for a small moment, I’ll remember what it’s like to feel so cynical towards every outcome and every possibility. Even towards people who in my eyes seem to have it better.

I now know that this isn’t always the case. People need to fight hard to become who they want, and having to make that change is one of the hardest pieces of art any artist can work on.

You are a portrait of what you want to become. Every unfinished piece of art you have in your folders will not compare to the unfinished work that is yourself.

Once you complete that picture, the picture of who you want to be, then you’ll finally be who you want to be.

It takes a lot of work.

Just like finding the right ways to shade a picture. You may discover that new method, that one that fits just right, but only with practice can it flow and become easier to execute. You need to hammer away with it and labor it until it becomes a new useful tool in your arsenal of creativity.

In order to work on yourself, you need to find new methods of bringing who you want to be into reality. You need to hammer away at it until it becomes an easy habit. You need to mentally train yourself to do what the person you want to become would do. It’s never easy, but with enough time, you will have a new tool to use for your arsenal of life.

It takes a lot of hard work to work on yourself. You need to invest just as much time into it as the time you put into your art.

So on saying that, I have just one note I’d like to leave on.

Please set aside time to work on the most important picture of all.

You.

If you don’t, then everything else you do will seem incomplete and unfinished.

Work on who you are.

Finish your portrait.

It’s the most important piece of art you will ever work on.

Thanks for your support everyone. <3

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