Everyone needs a pick-me-up some times!

As humans, we all struggle with insecurities and low self-confidence...It's just written into our code.

I recently finished up this piece of "low-poly" style artwork using watercolor and Posca paint pens on 400gm paper. I forgot to take progression photos, as this piece really pulled me in from the beginning....So how about some inspirational quotes instead?

 "If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced."

-Vincent Van Gogh

 "Always be yourself and have faith in yourself. Do not go out and look for a successful personality and try to duplicate it."

-Bruce Lee

 "Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles, and less than perfect conditions. So what? Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident, and more and more successful."

-Mark Victor Hansen

 "Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement."

-Golda Meir

 "To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment."

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

 "But failure has to be an option in art and in exploration--because it's a leap of faith. And no important endeavor that required innovation was done without risk. You have to be willing to take those risks ... "

-James Cameron

"People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is light from within."

-Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

 "The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable."

-Paul Tillich

"If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves."

-Thomas Alva Edison

Shyness has a strange element of narcissism, a belief that how we look, how we perform, is truly important to other people. "

-Andre Dubus

"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, 'Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?' Actually, who are you not to be?"

-Marianne Williamson

 "When I started counting my blessings, my whole life turned around."

-Willie Nelson

"If you are insecure, guess what? The rest of the world is, too. Do not overestimate the competition and underestimate yourself. You are better than you think."

-T. Harv Eker

These quotes are not my own, you can find them here.

Alright guys, I hope you all enjoyed this original artwork! If you did, please feel free to upvote and follow! And as always, if you have questions or advice for me, please leave them in the comments.

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