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Be happy kiddo. Everyone else thinks you're the bomb.

Hey you going to San Diego this year?

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I feel like everything I draw is very uninspired, and will never be anything true or emotional. Just a shallow reflection of what I want to create.

I don't know, I've never liked what I draw and I used to get insanely frustrated that I couldn't draw exactly what I saw in my mind, exactly what I wanted the picture to look like, but now I could care less.

However I don't think you should feel that way, your art is bright, refreshing and just gorgeous. <3 Your style's great and I really envy you.

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Don't get mad at me because your man didn't give you any dick last night.

HAHA THAT VIDEO. I love that song too hahahhaha, memories.

Haha I'm pretty happy, and I'm grateful for the people that like my work, it's just an unnerving sense of self-doubt that I always have that I KNOW I need to shake.

I'm also 95% sure I'm going to SDCC, ARE YOU GOING??

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...beats me, man. Beats me why most dudes suck, sure as hell ain't my scene.

i think artists are very often disasified with thier own work, and feel thier skillsare limited, some times this makes us work harder but often it makes us stay away, or do some sketches and then stop. but from what i ve heard this is usually the rule rather than the exception. So as hard as it is to doubt your own doubt, I guess you got to just assume that you can in fcat get better, and your at maybe better than you think it is

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Self-doubt has a positive side, makes you work more and be ambicious you have to take it less seriously yet don´t ignore it... plus you are so young, you have enough time to do so much

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I apologize ahead of time for any spelling mistakes on here I'm typing funny because I injured my thumb. Anywho, I think right now I feel like I'm stuck, it jsut seems to my that I keep drawing the same thing over and over again and so I just am trying to inspire myself to do something totally different in hopes I can improve and move on from there. It also doesn't help that everytime I hand in stuff for my class I freeze up on projects and everything that works in my sketchbook dissapears and looks super stiff when I hand it in, my professor keeps trying to help me but it's not quite working. So I suppose you can say I'm currently insecure too.

It is sort of shocking to me that you feel insecure, only because I just really look up to you and find a lot of inspiration in your drawings. You graduated from an illustration program in Canada right? I just hope that one day that's me. This is turning way too fan girly. In conclusion you rock my socks and I hope that you feel more secure with what you're doing soon.

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ALSO I just noticed the book you're reading. I was going to buy it this week, do you think it's worth it?

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i feel like my work should be at a better level than it currently is.

i find myself getting really impatient with my work sometimes, even though i've been doing better with implementing subtle details and trying to sharpen my inks up

i also get pretty dang frustrated with my damn anatomy skills; there's so much shit that i miss and it gets on my nerves!



doing comics is something i really want to do, but i have this fear that if i can't overcome the above, what good am i to the comics medium if i can't learn a little patience?

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i understand. most of the time, i feel i really suck. though i get bursts and fits of good stuff that i appreciate, the effect soon wears off. i try not to be hard on myself.

I think everyone suffers from that same self-doubt thing. I know I do... but then I get excited about something and I HAVE to draw. [link] This also helps me get stoked again, which helps me not feel unnerved.


I'm about 75% with San Diego right now.
I've been bugging Sheldon (eventhough he has no idea who I am) to get beer when I get there (if I get there.)
So I sortof have to go... For beer... You understand.

I'm motivated because San Diego looks fucking awesome.

You want to get beer if I go? I was looking at the map and there is this huge Aircraft Carrier a few blocks from the convention center. It would be so otherworldy to toast comics with international friends in front of a gigantic floating death fortress.

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