Accept criticism. If you do not offer your work for criticism and accept that criticism, meaning give it serious thought and attention, then you will never improve.

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The first thing you have to do is accept criticism. If you don’t, you are not giving your work the time it deserves, which means that you are not improving your craft. Only then can you grow as a person and as an artist.

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