Hello everyone. Sorry for being absent for so damn long. A lot of things have been going on in my life that I had lost my passion / will to draw and paint anything pretty much since 2009-ish. I never really talked to my viewers about my struggles related to art over the years, but at least telling you guys about my struggles may at least help me find my passion to draw again. Way back at around 2009, I was in my English class at school and we had to go into groups. One of us had to draw a portrait of a character from a book that we were reading. I volunteered to draw. It was a big piece of paper, and I wasn't used to drawing anything big. So I drew, and one of my classmates suggested I draw a cigarette. I did. I never drew a cigarette before, but it seems simple enough. Then one of my classmates said "That's not how you draw a cigarette!" He then proceeds to erase my cigarette and drew his own version. It felt really demeaning and it made my already low self-esteem even lower. It