Disclaimer! : This is only a silly joke (The snek isn't though! Happy new year if your reading this the next day!~)

While I would be more proud publishing something fancier, and especially as someone with level 10-like experience in the ways of the canvas & brush, I now see that I actually never learn if I'm just drawing over lines, copying art styles while not ever understanding the tricks on how they do it.
What I've got to add may also sound weird, it personally feels like I'm exposing myself for my crimes, and I'm literally just venting how I have been feeling since I first joined here X3
Though like... Let me give you an example of what I mean:

Imagine your sitting over on an old fashioned rocking chair on a warm sunny evening, resting your body after some of your hard earned effort, bringing with you some strawberry yogurt you produced from the farm, you listen to the birds as they sing their last melodies before the coming dark, pulling out a convenient spoon from your pocket and pulling the top off before you begin leisurely savoring the creamy goodness with small consecutive spoonfuls. Long story short you are having a good lone evening with your yogurt.
That is until you take a regretful look over your shoulder, that is when you see me in your backyard, crouch squatting like a russian slav all while inefficiently scooping up some yogurt that has very similar properties to your own tasty yogurt, yet I'm over here eating it with my own bare hands... like a bear in a pot of honey (No offense to you lovable beastial bears!).
While you are rightfully angry that someone is Literally in your backyard eating yogurt using YOUR recipe... The worst about all of this however is in the way I'm eating said yogurt, you might think: "this fool isn't even eating my yogurt properly! The nerve on that little..."

End of example, so basically as a summary of what I mean, I'm just a freelance copycat who has never really learned the basics of art and I'm over here trying to do advanced pieces of work without making any effort to push forward my creative artstyle, since I'm over here relying on any other artist but myself, since I know they do better than I because they have done this many times with effective knowledge in the basics and specific advanced techniques of their art.

Also this snek picture? Its only meme. Which means I'm not going to complain or whine if you happen to also specifically come up with a party snek with a slightly edgy eyepatch looking medal on its eye as the concept for your character... Or will I? (Not really, feel free to copy my concept, it literally took me 10 seconds to think of it up xD).

I've got some artwork I'm proud of here but more often than naught, its from that pride that makes me criticize exactly what I do, my drawings are often imperfect and it doesn't look like what I see on this platform most of the time. Which is exactly why I'm sending this coot potential snek that doesn't look as good. This will help me break my loop of perfectionism, now I can finally publish even mediocre looking things without having to worry about ruining my "good looking" streak. After all, I shouldn't strive to make a wedding cake alone after having only baked 3 cookies in my entire life.

And if you don't mind taking in this last metaphor;
"If you want to learn how to bake a cake but you've never made a cake before... Why, the solution is to simply try. If your batch doesn't come out right, then you identify what went wrong, learning from your mistakes and then you try again. Don't be afraid of failure, embrace those faults, for loss is a great teacher." - Some philosophical loser 2020

Take it what you will, I mean no ill will in the end, I just want a bit of personal resolution for myself xP

Anyways, thanks for hearing me out, even if I will often never know that you did in the end, it still feels good to share about how I feel.

So long! Happy new year!