>>5888010The best advice I've received is learn by doing, and I feel a lot of my potential was squandered because I didn't feel like writing/drawing for stretches of months or got cold feet when I put my work online. I used to fear criticism, but now I fear stagnation; it feels really bad to get advice and feedback from people, only to demonstrate that you haven't improved. It makes it look like you weren't listening or don't care.
I've been told, at the best of my ability, my writing is fine, but is too dry and doesn't leave room for the reader to use their imagination. I'm even worse when I try to write improv.
But it's still something I want to do, so I want to get better at it.
Drawing is something I'm less passionate about getting better with, but I do like fucking around with a cartoony, imitation-manga style. I've hardly even used color my entire life, and just now I've started experimenting with it. My drawings facilitate my characters; I love to make backstories, think about struggles, come up with powers I think are neat. But I'm not particularly good at it.
With my quest, I'm even working with a narration style I've never tried to write before, and I'm constantly worried that it just sounds fart-huffy and pretentious as opposed to the cheeky charm I'm going for.
Before I ramble too much, my point is that if you want to do it, then you should do it. You should take any constructive parts of what people tell you and try to build off of that.
I feel like I have little to no talent, and earlier this thread I even called myself a nobody, but I'm still trying. If you want to do it, ignore that shouty voice saying 'you can't' and spite it by going out there and doing it!
I hope this helps, and this goes for anyone else who feels the same way.