Times can be difficult from some, including yours truly. There are some that reinterate the concept that one needs to suffer if one intends to be an artist, which is, or course, complete bollocks. Besides that topic though, I have been finding life to be just... challenging, shall we say?
There are a few extremely talented and wonderfully gifted artists I follow here at DeviantArt, such as ~Ophelia-Overdose (https://www.deviantart.com/ophelia-overdose), :iconangelreich:, and :iconjaimeibarra: . Sometimes I simply wish that I were at their level, in a manner of speaking. While it may be that none of them are in art or photography textbooks, they appear to be quite successful, at le