Thinking about how I wish I had explored more with art when I was younger and allowed myself to be influenced by things I liked rather than fighting it so hard. I feel like I have years of catching up to do with being where I want to be with my style/general aesthetic now

I guess I'm just still irritated that I had "anime/disney/etc is trash" drilled into my head when I was younger and I took it to heart and I sometimes would put strict rules on myself to avoid certain stylizations out of fear it made my art inferior some how.