Almost forgot to do the post I make in this world every Tuesday. Apparently making yourself do something (like this) at a specific time or day every week is a good way to make sure you keep doing something that may be important to you. You can develop good habits this way, but I started this without even knowing that and it seems to work. Lucky me.

One of my uncles will be staying with us for the summer to do some job. It may be interesting because he's an artist and can draw really well. In fact, I think the job he's doing involves his art skills. He draws realism, which ,surprise surprise, I can do too. I'm actually way better at realism than at drawing anime. I can look at something and draw it realistically, but if I try to just draw something from my mind then it won't be as good.
But tbh, I haven't done realism in a little while because I've been trying to improve my anime drawing skills. I hope I'm still good, because I've been entering realism into a county fair art show for a few years now and my parents expect me to do it every summer.
Not that it's a bother or anything, but 1. It really puts things in perspective when you enter your art in a fair and you see all these other pieces that look way better than yours and you realize you probably aren't as good as everyone around you( including yourself) thinks you are. 2. My parents keep telling me about these artists who make millions of dollars on their work but I doubt I could make much money with realism/pencil art nowadays (even if it's not millions).
A while ago my dad said my skill would erode if I stop doing it for so long but I guess it's losing importance to me....

*sigh*