December 26, 2022 was the last time my good friend and mentor @RenderPretender made a post on dA. I miss him a lot. He taught me things and he made me laugh. And, thankfully, he told me that anything he made, I was free to post as I like. I have not used that "license" to post his work here on dA because his gallery remains intact. I am happy though to be posting his work over at my Blog at least once a week.
But I DID want to recognize one of his posts here on dA because I think it may be the single most important post he made. It's humorous, but it's also filled with great advice. It contained great advice for me and others when he posted it in 2018 and it remains filled with great advice for artists and writers to read and consider today. I hope people will find it as helpful now as I did when I read it back on September 14, 2018.