Confidence isn’t what lets you make things. It’s what making things leaves behind.

Waiting to feel like an artist before making art puts the requirement in the wrong place. Nobody hands out that feeling in advance, and the people who have it acquired it as sediment, left behind by a long series of finished things. The making comes first and the feeling settles afterwards.

Finish something small this week rather than working on your self belief. Then finish another. What you are accumulating is not just skill but evidence, and evidence is the only thing that ever actually quiets the question of whether you are allowed to do this.