I missed your last entry, but just went back to take a look. The art world is SO HARD. I don't think people outside of it really understand that as an industry and profession it's not exactly something you can do without working really hard at it. I personally find it so hard because while in one circle people will be telling you how talented you are and how amazing your work is (thus building up enormous amounts of confidence) there'll be another circle that will completely dismiss everything we've ever done as "not good enough."

This probably comes from there being SO many different forms of art and so many different styles that it's just natural that what is genius to one person is crap to another. I know myself and all of my creative friends have such fragile egos, though, so it can be difficult to pick yourself up after each and every total K.O.

I'm so glad you have the support you need to keep on picking yourself up though, remember... we can only ever get better than what we are.