08/28/2025
Sharing my art was easy, it was letting go of expectations that was the hardest ✨
I’m not a huge social media person. I forget to answer messages, texts go unseen for days and I often will forget posting is a thing. For example, it wasn’t wildly successful, but this art account actually was doing pretty well a few years ago.
I’d started posting about Milo, a mouse I drew about 3 years ago now, and was getting decent traction on my posts. I wrote a first draft of a children’s book about him, kept posting and then…my inner critic stepped in (dun dun duuuun) and I suddenly was ripping apart every piece I made to the point that I no longer enjoyed creating. I stopped posting, stopped drawing, stopped creating all together.
I’d taken the joy out of one of the only things I truly enjoy: art.
I didn’t think anyone would like my work, which used to not matter. I used to only worry about if I liked it, if I had fun creating it. I started to think it didn’t meet these unreachable standards I’d set for myself, yet never had for anyone else, and started to hate my own work.
Then life stuff piled on, good and bad, then world stuff, again good and bad, and then everyday stuff took precedence and art moved further and further away from me.
Cut to a few weeks ago. I was talking with , one of my amazing sister-in-laws, about art styles and creativity and art in general.
She had no idea I loved to draw. This SHOCKED me, because my soul immediately screamed about how much art and drawing meant to me!
I realized I’d let myself get so affected by social media, something I consistently can’t be bothered to check, that it took away something that felt like a core part of myself.
I started drawing again that day.
I started posting again a few weeks later, because I’ll be damned if I let an app stop me from enjoying and sharing my art.
So I’m returning to this space, renewed, excited and just happy to share my art and the accounts, crafts and things that bring me joy. Especially in a time when joy is a hard won.
I hope you share it, and your art, with me!
