Introducing myself

lmrush

Welcome, you are going to love it here! Your work is sweet and so colorful!

APHOTICMOTH

Welcome! I love those cat shrubs.

Your "Lemons meet parker" illustration really caught my attention.

Heather Boyd

@Corlette-Douglas

Welcome,

Love your first work, you will find a great community here.

I have self confident issues too, they come and go, right now I am feeling well -grinding out the Godzilla, lols.

I went to your website, first I did find all your tabs at the top a bit overwhelming. So if you selected the most pertinent ones or change the size it would be more clear. Like a section for Books as you have done so for Character Deign and Sketches. Also I would try to avoid stretching your images -two of your teeth images look stretched -I do apologize if this is not true.

I also love bears -especially in other people’s work lols.

Hope to see your work here!

animatosoor

Bears are my favourite animals! As I type this, I have an Aboriginal painting of a bear (gifted to me) sitting right in front of me, haha.

@Corlette-Douglas Hello and welcome to the forum! The colours in your work are delightful.

To answer your question: I do feel very discouraged when I don't hear back from potential clients, but I feel like I've only taken baby steps in that regard so far. I've been trying to reframe my mindset from "I shouldn't try because I could get rejected," to "I will collect rejection letters," which is something I learnt from the author Elizabeth Gilbert. The best way to raise our confidence, it would seem, would be to continue our efforts to expose ourselves and our art to the world, try for these jobs/deals, and work on our art everyday in a feedback loop.

You'd find that there are fellow artist friends here who also struggle with self-confidence, and I am definitely one of them. What is great is that when we meet these people, we have the opportunity to uplift them, and feel strengthened as well. I've tried going it alone before, and fell flat on my face. The community is great for this, beyond the actual art side of things: the critique, educational resources, tips, etc.

I hope you enjoy being here and interacting with everyone.

Corlette Douglas

@lmrush Thank you so much I'm hoping to learn a lot from all of you.

Corlette Douglas

@Heather-Boyd said in Introducing myself:

selected the most pertinent ones or change the size it would be more clear. Like a section for Books as you have done so for Character Deign and Sketches. Also I would try to avoid stretching your images -two of your teeth images look stretched -I do

Thank you so much for the feedback I'll get right on fixing those areas , Im guessing it's better to leave people wanting more that to pile on everything I've done into one page. Maybe a little here and there would work, and I guess I can get rid of older watercolor pieces as well so the website looks refreshed.

Corlette Douglas

@CLCanadyArts Thank you the lemons meets Parker was done for my niece when she made a lemonade business I'm actually working on a little book dummy I'm hoping to maybe show it around later. XD

IgorWoznicki

Hi there! Always nice to meet new folks!
You're gonna love people round here, those guys are great
Your illustrations are soo cool and colorful, can't wait for you to drop some more art in here.
See you around!

Coreyartus

Welcome to the forums, @Corlette-Douglas !! As you've seen, there are a lot of very friendly and helpful people here. Don't forget to take some time to dig through the forums--using some keywords in the search mechanism can really render some awesome insight!

Just so you know, there's a special category you can when making a new forum thread if you're really looking for "unfiltered" constructive criticism of your work. But everyone here is pretty good at making sure the advice they're offering is a genuine attempt at being helpful even without that categorization. I say this because you said you have confidence issues. Please believe me when I say I think a HUGE number of us can relate!!! You're in the right spot!!

Welcome, again!

Nyrryl Cadiz

@Corlette-Douglas hi! Welcome to the forum. I love your style. It’s so bright and colorful.

avfarrar

Welcome!

theprairiefox

Your work is so colorful. I love the vibrancy!

Welcome can't wait to see more...