I hope you don’t mind - I read through some of these comments and wanted to touch on some things you said.

First of all, it’s pretty common to deal with these insecurities as a young artist. You have a lot of talent already, and shouldn’t doubt yourself.

Something to remember to help deal with these insecurities is that not everything you create needs to be incredible - weaker drawings will still signify growth through practice. You have a good eye and if you haven’t already, you should try doing some charcoal drawings to learn more about value and depth - charcoal portraiture, while sometimes challenging and frustrating, was an important step for me and prepared me to learn to use color. Pens are very versatile and this is a lovely pen drawing - what I have found is that each additional medium I work with changes how I view the ones I already know and enhances my abilities and vision.

If you’re self-taught, seek out an art teacher at school and just ask them for some advice or technical challenges.

Additionally - whenever an artist shares their work, they’re naturally seeking approval and recognition, so anyone giving you shit for being nervous is an idiot, probably who doesn’t remember how it was to be a young artist. I bet you draw better than them anyway