How to gauge your own work?

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Something like that, it's still a problem I struggle with. Often I wonder if all this studying is in vain . It all stems from anxiety over whether it's too late for me to be successful, "I should have started at X age." For now I'm just taking it slowly. I'm actually starting at an atelier in less than a month so I'll be putting in the hours soon, right now I just want to relax with art making.

I still don't like my work, but it's on an upswing.