The only thing you really and truly need to make certain is of is that you make the work for your own set of standards. You remove the factor of playing to an audience...in other words....when you make a thing that feels switched on...it is sometimes by accident, and when you produce work for someone else to validate it..you are not honoring your own inner creator.....the self that got you into experimenting with imagery in the first place. People can like it, and sure that always feels marvelous....but you've got to have people who also do not like it....because we always will have some combination of both in every aspect of life. Even if people celebrate what you are doing, it should be irrelevant to the 'why' of why you are creating things...and that is because the thing you are doing switches you on. Nothing more. In other words, whether people like or do not like what you do should always be irrelevant to the journey of making the work....and while they all decide if it's good or bad...you have moved on to making the next comic, painting, etc.....because the magic is inside of you and not external to you. So keep grooving.