If you lived through the same year and a half that I did, you're probably feeling incredibly burnt out. In this video, I want to share some tips for how I deal with creative burnout and insecurity as an artist and take the time to acknowledge what a lot of us are feeling.

We aren't artmaking machines, and burnout/art block can make us (or at least it makes me) feel really negative about my art and insecure in my abilities. Nothing that I'm going to share in this video will cure that for you, but taking the time to treat yourself like a real person, and creating manageable expectations can go a long way towards feeling better.

Here's to making 2021 better than 2020.

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I deal with burnout and insecurity as an artist by doing one main thing: releasing myself from toxic productivity culture. If there's anything you get from this video, please just realize you're a human being and not a productivity machine.

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