I'm seriously so irritated right now. Are any of you artists/writers out there? I struggle with some serious perfectionism as well as this obsession related to somehow accidentally "copying" someone else's work (the latter mainly in visual art). I throw out ideas in fear that I'm imitating art I've seen before, or somehow copying something I've seen in the past. I feel like I've lost a major hobby of mine. Painting is now so hard that I only complete one full, detailed piece every like six months or so (I am a digital artist and used to be able to spend hours at a time working on my art but lately have only been able to spend short periods trying because it's mostly just discouraging). Other than that I mean I do sketches on rare occasions but my primary medium takes ages to make anything on these days, and thats how I love to make art. (I also write and find myself rewriting things to happen in different ways because I am not content with how the first version happened/sounded, often multiple times, and then just abandoning the project) Any other artists on here struggle with this? It's discouraging. I used to love art and writing, but now I have to edit backgrounds and scrap ideas and rewrite passages because it never feels quite right.