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Pi-chi.eth (she/her) Artist /animeoutcasts
Purple Promoter|Tokyo DAO
Hosting: /moxietools /kyoto /sakura  /anime-manga /tokyotravel

https://beacons.ai/pi_chi

What has been the most challenging part of your artistic journey on FC?

Calling myself an artist. Before mid February 2024, I'd never shown another human (besides my mom) my art.  I made it for myself and it lived on my computer and phone and occasionally made it into some physical craft projects I was working on.  It was hard to share my art because AI artists get a lot of flack in some spaces and the imposter syndrome still weighs heavily on me. I imagine this is how photographers felt when comparing themselves to portrait painters!

Yes I understand that, 
How did you now build up the courage to start sharing your art on here?

outcasts

A degen, creator, and shitcaster born to be bullish.

/outcasts which launched in February was my inspiration. I loved what @sum created so much, that I made Fan art to thank him. It was the first time I ever shared my art publically....and then someone asked to buy it. A week later, I had my first auction for my first 11 pieces and /animeoutcasts was born.

Here are the originals.
https://opensea.io/collection/anime-outcasts-one-of-ones-moon-edition

Wow
So that’s how it all started🥺

What advice would you give an artist also going through this same challenge of not acknowledging themselves as artist or not acknowledging their work as good enough?