Now here's a way back wednesday #dailysketchext for you... This is from 2012 and if I remember correctly, I made this while sitting in a coffee shop feeling like a loser because I could not make myself get pumped up enough or to feel inspired by anything. I was so hard on myself that I was getting in my own way. When it came to my art back then, I was very harsh and judgmental with myself, so much so that I found it difficult to find the courage to sketch. I thought I sucked horrifically and that everyone else was better than me and I told myself that whatever I did accomplish, if I ever did accomplish anything with it, would be something that someone else had already done and they probably had even done it better... I was comparing myself with other people, which is a really bad idea, because as one of the best pieces of advice I've ever heard, especially for things you do from the heart like art, says: "But let each one prove what his own work is, and then he will have cause for exultation in regard to himself alone, and not in comparison with the other person." You have got to get out of your own way.