Do listen to other people talking and learn from each other. Don’t sell yourself short, especially in front of agents, art directors, etc. Do remember the #kidlitart hashtag

Yesssss. Things really turned around for me when I stopped acting like "I think I might be an okay artist someday sorry I know this drawing is terrible" and started saying "hi, I'm an artist, here's a thing I made that I like!" #kidlitart