I really really want people to start understand "drawing" and "sharing" has absolutely different goal and purpose. I keep seeing people who are talking how they working at improving to get "bigger likes" or how they "draw more" to get "more attention" and I was here too and this is a straight way to burn out yourself out.
you create to make your idea real, be it a drawing, an animation, music and etc. your goal is to make this something inside your head exist in real world. you can also enjoy the process, or you can hate the process, but you keep trying because you want to see your idea alive.
and wanting attention, to be noticed, to get some validation is absolutely normal and I think natural for people? being upset about wanting more is very natural too. we are social creatures, we built like this. but you don't need to create better art or draw more art, you need a better strategy, or maybe something else, because sharing is a whole different skill and you can be an amazing artist but you can have very very low skill at sharing your art.
same with promotion what is a whole different skill when you do commissions. no it is not enough to just draw good and even have a lot o followers, because I know artist with big audience who struggle with thir business and people with a very very small audience who actually have a big queue of people who want to get an art from them.
when you see it as different skills it is much much more easier to improve and notice what is working for other people and what didn't work for you. I mean it is a journey and all you can is try different things and look if it work, if you enjoy this, if it is fun. sometimes mistakes are the best way to learn.
