shithowdy:

literally one of the most emotionally freeing things you can do as an art hobbyist is stop caring about how much attention your work gets

as a professional it’s understandable, but if your goal is to create for the sake of creating and not make money, then the best thing you can do for yourself is to stop basing your self-worth on how many reblogs or favs or whatever you get.

find a community that can support your development and give you constructive feedback, if you rely on feedback to keep improving. but if that’s not important then just… create. for you. if you’re not having fun making art because people aren’t reblogging it then you’re just hurting yourself. i have been there and it’s awful.