just starting out as an artist, i find myself almost hesitant to begin for fear of mockery or failure. however, i've found in life that i have to just push through the perfectionist-crippling hesitancey.
so i am jumping in and just making the mistakes i know i will make, facing the ridicule i know i will face and generally just pushing through the fear.
i'm sure i'm not the only one who has faced these thoughts, but you don't generally hear creative people talk about this (or i dont) unless they are quite successful and say it so self-deprecatingly that i don't know that i even believe it when they say it.