The hardest part of learning something new is the realisation: I’m bad at this… and everyone else seems amazing. And for me, it happened to be a blocker in learning. Right now, I’m learning a new skill (digital drawing with Procreate), and it doesn’t feel pleasant. I don’t like being incompetent at something and admitting it, even to myself. The worst part is seeing how easily others do what I’m struggling with. But I figured out a way of overcoming this negative feeling in l

Every time I open my Instagram, it quietly asks me the same question: “So, how successful are you today?” For a long time, my honest answer was: “Apparently… not very.” And I am sure it is a very common thought among creatives. When a small art Instagram account is not growing it starts to feel like proof of failure I’ve had my art Instagram for about seven years now. First, I’ve been posted one - two times in a month. Then I started experimenting, tried different things: s

Lately, I’ve been feeling completely drained trying to figure out how to make time for art with a 9 to 5 job . I work full-time as a UX (User Experience) designer in an IT company, and alongside that, I am trying to grow my art practice, share my drawings online, and slowly build something of my own. And guess what... most days the art gets pushed to the side. It feels less like a simple lack of hours and more like a lack of inner capacity to hold everything in one day: work,

5 min sketching exercise for self-reflection