Little Baron said:
How bad can anyone do? I like that. It gives us all the room to try and experience. And even though things do not always end up perfect, they have their own charm.
Exactly!
When I was in my teens and twenties, if things were not perfect I would get into a snit and destroy them. It's taken me 20 years to realize that no one is perfect, there is no such thing.
My oldest sister told me one time during my struggles with perfectionism: "Perfect is the enemy of good" and that's true. What's wrong with good, or excellent?
If you don't do something as well as you like, set it aside for a time and then go back to it and fix it or reuse it elsewhere. There is always a way to fix things. And chances are that when you do go back to it, it's not that bad anyway.
Frequently when making things, they don't turn out the way we imagined in our minds; they don't meet our expectations. So what? What does that mean? It means you just developed a different idea. Nothing wrong with that.
I saw an article by an artist on the web who advised not to plan too much--to play instead. This way you don't have a preconceived idea of product and expectation and you can create without feeling inadequate or that you didn't hit the mark.
Better to have the skill to develop and be flexible than be destroying good work, or being afraid to start.
I'm betting, that anyone who goes back and looks at something they made after three months or even a year later, will wonder what the heck they were so hung up about.