I was waking up today, sorting out my priorities and putting up my 'To Do' list so I can referrence it from where ever (when I've got details, all I really need is a name), and I was also in a few chat rooms before a job interview.

A few people were going back and forth about who owed who art.

It all seemed so preposterous. A lot of stuff has seemed preposterous lately to me, when people complain about taking insult from a very harsh critique and then complaining when I suggest they move past the poorly worded (or very possibly intended insult) and take the critique for that.

I guess I'm finally going through those phases in my life as a person growing up and as an artist developing, where things start to 'sort out'.

That is, I'm not taking much insult or stressing much over harsh critiques and insults, I don't find myself caring about comments. The pageview contest thing is more of a reward, but it's really just page camping, I've been trying to figure out something more interactive to encourage people to interact.

I just had to giggle, what started this whole journal was the stray thought 'Man, I remember when my art started to get better back in March and I looked back at some earlier art and saw how bad it was' This has happened quite a few times. All I can say, is I'm taking pride in that fact, that in the space of months of probably some of the most stressful days of my life so far, I'm still able to improve noticeably.

Always figured artist's needed an ego, one of those mystical requirements to be good. I've just avoided the whole thing, but I think now I've got something to be egotistically giddy about.

Thanks for reading folks :)