Why Comparing Your Work to Professionals Doesn’t Help

It’s easy to compare your work to professionals especially when all you see is their finished pages, polished books, and years of experience condensed into a single image. In this episode of Panels in Progress, I talk about why that kind of comparison doesn’t actually help, and how it often skips over the most important part of the process: the work you don’t see. I discuss my thought process around comparison and how comparing in-progress work to finished, professional work creates a distorted view of growth, time, and progress. I reflect on how comparison affects artists and comic creators, how it quietly messes with motivation, and why recognizing the gap between process and result can change how you approach your own work. If you’re making comics or art and constantly measuring yourself against professionals, this episode is about reframing that habit so it stops working against you. 📚 If you want to check out my comics, links are below. My webtoon The Fear Dimension: https://www.webtoons.com/en/canvas/th... 📚My one shot Dopple: https://globalcomix.com/c/dopple?utm_... Patreon-Support the Progress! https://patreon.com/PanelsinProgress?...