A common artist pitfall is getting too stuck on a particular piece, which builds high expectations for it when it’s eventually released. It can be painful if that piece isn’t appreciated like you hoped it would be.

A remedy is to zoom out and maintain a global perspective over all the art you’ll release in your life. In the grand scheme, this one piece is hopefully a drop in the bucket of all the many other pieces you’ll make, some of which (hopefully) will be many times better than the one you’re stuck on. Staying stuck on one prevents you from moving forward to creating those amazing future works.

This advice doesn’t apply to every artist, but I think it does for many: Release it and move on to the next.