Nostalgia Showcase
I used to watch Mummies Alive, when I was about eleven or so. As if that isn't an embarrassing enough admission, you should've seen what the fandom was like--Mary Sues were standard and the highest-profile ones got dibs, romantically, on the show's characters. In fact, the Mary Sues interacted with each other in a big universal fan story; their
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This is going to sound so, so cheesy, but you WILL get there and you WILL ROCK.
Try taking life drawing classes, which will boost your confidence (and skill) past that crisis stage. Also, humanities credits, woo.
Honestly, though, life drawing classes are a bit hard to come by, so try this too: Draw in lectures if you don't need to take notes--I find it also keeps me from falling asleep too! Do it whenever you have a bit of time to kill. Take a sketchbook with you everywhere you go, and try not to put pressure on yourself to be good, and don't show it to anyone. As you're walking around in the street or looking in the mirror, note how your calf curves or how the fat gets displaced on someone's upper arms, and add that detail to your next drawing. Your people will be beautiful art Frankensteins.
Definitely avoid getting crits for the first two years of this, including self-criticism if at all possible. If you feel yourself getting frustrated, laugh it off and try drawing something else--a flower, or your hand. And being competitive is good for drawing, actually. I routinely go on drawing frenzies out of jealousy. Just be careful: you can use that passion to move you but don't let it get you down. ♥
This mostly sounds like generic advice but it's just that I think you can do it, you know? If you've felt that excitement, that itch to draw, I really believe you can do it.
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