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Not everything you make will be good.

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Adam Ming
Aug 29, 2022
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Illustration of a mole character by Adam Ming

Perfect Sketchbooks, Viral drawings every time, unicorns.

None of those are real.

I used to read this comic on instagram, I forgot the name, but the strips were immaculate every time! Great story and art.

So I asked the creator his secret.

“I don’t post everything I make”.

If you only see good stuff, know that it took a lot of bad stuff to get there, so if you’re making bad stuff, you’re on the path. The more you make the more often something will be good.

Just remember not everything you make will be good. That doesn’t mean you’re not good. Understand that you can’t make ‘good’, you can only make. Then use what is good.

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Helen Stephens
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Sep 15, 2022Liked by Adam Ming

MOST stuff I make is not good! Doing the bad work is like mining for the gems!

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