chainsaw man characters make me feel seen because i too make the same mistakes over and over again

i’m inherently uncomfortable by the gap between my perception of my work and how others will receive it. as a designer, i should embrace it. there is a part of me, however, that seeks to control it

i got feedback today that there is a distancing of emotion in my work. it was my first time tackling the most guarded aspect of my identity. i don’t want to examine my identity too closely-it will hurt. it’s too close to me. i can’t work on it unless there are degrees of separati...