I recently read the book “Steal Like An Artist” by Austin Kleon.

I highly recommend it.

This book helped me realize two important benefits of any creative process.

1. Understand you are solely responsible to improve yourself. Whether that be to practice, educate, train, you are the initiator. The buck stops with you. A quote I love that sums up this idea from the book is “School is one thing, education is another. The two don’t always overlap. Whether you’re in school or not, it’s always your job to get an education.”
2. Growing creatively. It’s the act of making things and doing our work that we figure out who we are. You start a phony and become real.-Glenn O’Brian. I’ve stressed over my creative process. Do I know what my style is? So and so did this so much better than me. However, I’ve learned that to constantly be practicing your craft you quickly find your style. You start out getting inspired by others and slightly mimicking them and then it turns into your own.

Regardless of what you do, work hard and constantly at it, understand that the more you do whatever it is, the more your style will develop.