I find it amusing, looking back at past deviations, that I was so proud of drawings and artworks that in retrospect, are . That people said "Good work!" and gave me the thumbs up for such trash! I guess it's true that love is blind - thanks guys

I can't say I shouldn't have been proud of that stuff- at the time, it was the best I could do, just like right now my abilities will be hopefully laughable and incredibly ridiculous in the future. Really, that's what I hope - otherwise it means I haven't improved (or changed at least. "Improvement" is always subjective).

Similarly, you need peers to keep you going, to say "Hey, that's not too bad!" when you churn out a painstaking chunk of your life in the form of a piece of art. Some people assume that they must always be super-critical a assessing someone else's work because that's the only way they'll ever learn and change and improve. But especially as we get older, it sinks in better when we notice it ourselves.

Anyway. Thanks (to those who still visit my DA account and, well, DA in general) and I hope we can continue churn out more crap together for years to come!

~AccosT