/warning: senseless rambling under the influence of exhaustion and headache, just ranting abt art in general

I have reached the stage of hypercritical where I am not even sure what I am looking for exactly in regards to improvement

Looking at art ideas, styles, and my own art and scouting around and in absolute scattered confusion going “that isn’t quite it” in regards to my own artistic goals for the future.

Like either I have lifted my own expectations toward myself to oblivion or I am about to figure out some big ol’ artistic math for myself-

What even makes art “right”, because clearly there is something that decides when it is and isn’t with the amount of “critique” we know to express in response to it.

Or maybe the reality is that there is no standard to reach, that this is all just some market bs and maybe we should just draw whatever tf we want and stop pressuring ourselves to follow the guidelines.

None of us signed a TOS when picking up that pen or whatever other creative tool we use..

Fuck maybe I just wanna stop thinking about it so hard