art means you gotta be in love with the process of discovery, love finding what's come before you, love finding what's happening now, love uncovering something new in yourself. i think

You are very very right. This is especially important with comics imo

you right, I love feeling/experiencing that it's been a long journey for me to get to that point lol

you don't have to constantly strive to improve, i don't think that's required unless you want to— but that's almost an organic result of feeding your brain, right? you don't seek to uncover something just to boast you were first, you do it because you love it and love is worth communicating.

that a love of art should instead engender a chronic sense of competition where my worth is proven to myself and others by successes, successes that're the result of curated networks and narrowed interests and spite or envy runs SO counter to what feels natural and explorative to me...

AI: (looks at skeet and writes) atr mans yuou gottttttttttttta...