Nobody tells you, when you choose this path, that the hardest part won't be the work. The work — the drawing, the imagining, the making — that part you already knew how to do. Or at least you knew how to begin. What nobody quite prepares you for is everything that surrounds the work. The silence where feedback used to be. The decisions that arrive without a framework to help you make them. The strange freedom of a day with no structure except the one you build before breakfas
