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[PhantomUnderYourDesk]

It's not easy, but keep building that tough skin anyway.  Makes life a lot less stressful when the ignorance and shallow judgment of others just rolls off your back.

So true. Tough skin and fur is developing (hopefully), when I look back at my times when my mood was able to swing drastically on a small trigger and several times on the same day, and some following day senses seemed numbed - it got more stable and balanced over some years.

Oh, you're also a self-taught traditional artist? How pleasant to hear, since I am too~ Never visited an art school or course or similar, learned and am always learning through own resources. Kudos on that vigor, since I can draw half the day away when I feel like it and inspiration strikes.