I fucking hate that little sidebar thing on Deviations that show "more deviations from -insert username here-". At least, I hate it on my stuff. I have some shitty-ass art that I did way back at the dawn of time, and for whatever reason, that sidebar thing only ever shows some of my worst "art". Like, knock it off.

I could delete that shit, but most of it was lost when I had a bigass hard drive purge awhile back.

So there is a reason I keep that old art around, despite hating the fact that people can see it.

Typical of a creative person, I generally feel like I can't seem to improve- ever. Something I'm working on doesn't turn out the way I wanted it to, and I chuck my laptop into the sea (A Dell rolling in the deep har har). Why bother? What's the point?? There are so many talented artists out there making me (and everyone else for that matter) look bad.

Well that goddamn recommendations sidebar shit does an excellent job of showing me how much I've improved. "Look at this brain fart you did in 2008. You thought you were hot shit then. Feeling like shit about that painting you just posted? Let me put this 2010 atrocity right next to it so you can see how much you've improved in just two years."

I still cringe when I see what my sidebar is suggesting to other people, but at least for a few minutes when I post a new piece of art, I feel like a quality artist who's actually getting somewhere.