One of the tricks I have found to forward my art is to not be comfortable. It's fun to be the best artist in your gang (which I am not) or your house (which is questionable for me considering Sabrina's work lately) - but it doesn't make you reach.
You need to look, every once in a while, at stuff that is better than yours. Art that makes you wish you could have drawn/painted/made that. You need to be in an environment where there are people around you who are better than you.
Then, you need to bite your lower lip and get moving. Don't just sigh - put brush to canvas and pencil to paper. Try stuff. Fail. See how things moved, and what you were happy about.
As artists, we tend to have the 'I can't draw' face. It's easy to get frustrated when you are trying to breath life into something. It's really easy when it seems so effortless to some people.
Yet, if we don't try, don't reach - then we're all drawing stick figures.
Easier said than done - some of us are really rather thin skinned and worry about others seeing our "mistakes".
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