All that matters is that you are making something you love, to the best of your ability, here and now.

No matter what tools you use to create, the true instrument is you.

Your self-expression allows the audience to have their own self-expression.

It's fine to want to connect with an audience. And, if you want to connect with an audience, you have to ignore them when you are making the work. Because if you're making the work for the audience, it's no longer a genuine work. It's no longer authentic. The authenticity is what makes it good. You putting yourself into it, flaws and all. Ugly and all. Beautiful and all. Weird and all. All of those things are what makes people connect.

Great art is timeless, and yet it's a true expression of who the artist is in that moment.

I am doing me, and I am showing you who I am, and you can like it or not but either way, this is still how I see it.

However you frame yourself as an artist, the frame is too small. Sharing art is the price of making it. Exposing your vulnerability is the fee.