izri & carlos are ocs by @amildbreeze.bsky.social

also her, and Ebrina.
I forgot why I drew this.

ShaderGlass my beloved for the quick and dirty filter

(app by @mausimus.bsky.social)

We can't avoid doing hard things. And we don't want anyone to have a debilitating intolerance for imperfection. But the journey of art is also about finding things you love and can obsess about, finding your people, asking for help, looking for obscure answers, looking very closely at things.

All sorts of fast forms of modern entertainment does a number on the human brain. "Frustration tolerance" has little to do with miscalibrated sense of pace or an entangled ego. And you see so many beginners get nowhere studiously grinding deadend methods hoping it just works like video game EXP.