It's a sad commentary about my talent that one of my most popular contributions to DeviantART was not one of my artworks but a color pencil color chart. An artist may be their own worst critic but feedback from an outside population- people you are not related to because we all know friends and family are never insulting- is important, a confirmation of something you want to be, something, anything outside of mediocre. I could hold my own in a High School art class 20 years ago but in a community of other artists, I am lost somewhere in the middle of mediocre.