Have some faith in yourself and stop captioning your art as a "sketch" or "doodle" when it's not

I see many young artists post practically fully lined and colored pieces with a caption like "just a sketch lol" or "a lazy doodle" or smth.

Bro. If there's lineart, and especially if there's color, you're no longer in sketch or doodle territory. Have some balls and don't diminish yourself by implying you didn't try on your art, or intentionally didn't finish it.

It also gives you a mental cop out against feedback or improvement by being able to say "oh, well, it's just a sketch; I didn't try super hard; etc."

Well, if you only post sketches and doodles, what does it look like when you put actual time into something? If you undersell yourself, then you prime others to automatically think less of your art.

This is one of my biggest pet peeves in art. Don't undersell yourself. Have confidence in your art, regardless of your skill level. You drew it yourself, which is more than what many people can say. Post your art without the weak caption shit, and have faith that you will grow and improve. Putting time into something means that you care and love what you do; don't feel like you need to hide that you put time into something.

Disclaimer that this is not about the specific definitions of sketches or doodles; instead, this is referring to a specific phenomenon of intermediate/beginner artists underselling or diminishing their art in the caption, not *actual* sketches and doodles.

If you've never seen this before, then search "just a sketch" or "just a doodle" in a popular art sub or in any popular fandom tag on Tumblr. You'll see everything from actual black-and-white, messy-lined sketches to pieces with clean inking and color (this is what the post is about).