Read the whole thing at Unicornfree » Don’t Follow Your Passion.

” If you want to run a successful café — and enjoy it — you need to love a lot more than coffee. You’ve also gotta get some kind of pleasure, even grim satisfaction, out of the daily grind. (Ha ha.) Which means, of course, interacting with customers, hiring & managing wait staff, handling the day-to-day necessities like ordering supplies, cleaning, paying rent, marketing your butt off, and dealing with customers who want to squat on your valuable tables all day for just $2 of brew. “

But right now I’m focusing most of my energies in school, so I can finish it by February. This is the most important goal right now. Then, I’ll have a whole semester free to dedicate myself to drawing.

In the meantime, I’ll keep it casual. And at the same time try to fight this pressure I feel, that every sketch must turn out good! I start to stress on my worst drawing days. I can’t let that tension build up in me, because it only makes me draw even worse. I need to keep reminding myself of how mistakes are a natural thing and just keep at it, without stressing over it.