whatever your hobby, you gotta have strong feelings about it or you won’t have the drive to keep doing it. when i was younger i loved the way graphic design mixed in with human-computer interface research and stuff, and spent some years doing graphic design.
I tell people at cons that to stick with drawing or any kind of art, you need two things:
1) have so much fun you can’t stop
2) train yourself to have a high frustration tolerance
If you have 1 and not 2, you won’t improve. If you have 2 and not 1, it’s a miserable chore.
Then I show them this:
