I almost deleted my best selling design

When you work on something for a long time it’s difficult to say how good it is.

This is a design I made 3 years ago and it’s titled “Get your own pizza, human!”

It took me a while to make this design. It has a lot of details and colors, and the cat is more complicated than I usually draw. I could not get the cat’s butt shape just right. And I kept changing his fur color until I finally settled on blue.

“No one’s going to like it,” I thought. I was sure no one would buy it and that people would complain about the blue color and wrong cat anatomy. But I had spent over 5 hours on this design so I didn’t want to just delete it. I was too attached. And there was one thing that I liked about this design — the cat’s serious expression, not angry or scared, just serious as if the pizza was the most important thing in the world.

So I published it. It’s in my top 10 best selling designs of all time. Shows what I know about what people like. Now when I look at this design I really like it and the blue fur too.

I wanted to share with you this little story because we often forget that we are our worsts critics and we judge our art too harshly.

Let other people make their own mind about your designs. Publish them and see what happens. You might be as surprised as I was.