Hello dear friend!!!! It’s good to see you after spending so much time on the road! And AAA OMG,,, sorry I need to recover from the fact that someone actually looks up to me omg??? Talked about me in a Discord server??? I didn’t know I was cool 😂😎 I try really hard to draw really well even if it’s just silly Dazai x me things!!

Tell her that there’s no need to be shy omg neither me nor hubby bite anything but apples (aha) but that I understand if she just can’t bring herself to talk directly it’s okay it happens!! Tell her I love her anyways and that she should keep drawing always!!

And that is in fact, my advice! Keep! Drawing! Always! I literally went online a few days ago to purchase home internet for my family’s new apartment, and when chatting with customer service it turned out that the sweetie pie rookie who was helping me also loved to draw, but considered herself very bad at it! So I told her !!! And this is the important part, to KEEP DRAWING because if you enjoy it you should do it, and the more you do it the better you get!

More practical advice other than ever important moral support and encouragement is to start by copying others’ art! (But don’t post it! Shhh… That is secret practice, don’t want to be ripping others off!) It doesn’t even have to be someone’s art, she can copy anime screenshots or photographs, whatever she wants to be good at! She can even trace over an image to help her hand get used to the movement, I learned to draw Dazai’s hair by tracing over many MANY of his various screenshots that I keep! Never be afraid of refs, greater painters would look and paint!

Another one is to find what she likes to work with :0 you must make it as fun for yourself as possible!! Because it’s very easy to get frustrated with yourself when your drawing is not coming out how you want, but as many great nomads have said, it’s about the journey, not the destination. If you’re not enjoying the process of making art as much as the result, you’re just hurting yourself! So she should see if she prefers digital or traditional, pencils or pens, raster or vector! Try everything she can, unless she’s already set on something 😛 and of course, try to pick a subject you like drawing! I could practice art by drawing a character I don’t care as much about, or I could use it as an excuse to stare at Dazai~

I think that’s all for now, it’s nearly midnight and I’m running on low steam, so if either of you angels need anything else just pop by!! Until then though, nighty night and stay lovely and keep drawing!!!