Rant: I thought digital art had to be perfect to be worth sharing
For years, I kept all my art to myself because I was sure it wasn't good enough. I'd spend hours on a piece in Procreate, zoom in to fix every single pixel, and still think it looked wrong. Then, about three weeks ago, I forced myself to post a sketch I did of my dog, just a quick 30-minute thing with messy lines. I mean, I was sure people would ignore it or think it was bad. But the opposite happened. Someone commented that they loved the energy and looseness of it, which was something I never even thought about. It made me realize I was so focused on a clean, finished look that I was killing the fun and feeling in my work. Now I'm trying to share more of those rough sketches and WIP shots. Has anyone else gotten stuck trying to make everything look polished and final?