Oh Happy, what is this? Being a professional is all about having it in the blood.
Being a student counts for every human being, we are all students in life.
When you're good you'll find not always the people being correct with you. People are like that. Shake it off. You're good, and you know the saying: "When I'm good -I'm very good, when I'm bad -I'm even better." And you have it in your blood. Just don't stop.
Oh yeah, by the way. Your style of designing is perfect for the media; in one design you can tell a situation of whatever you want.
These painters with their long boring stories and huge paintings that make tears in my eyes from sleep, or worse; muesea, boring...
You have to be quiet, listen to those freaks who think to know how a painter should have felt and more from those boring things. Mama mia.... Oh, I love your designs, and I'm sure there must be somewhere a media that needs that, wherther it is for commercials, announcements of movies, charictatures, news flashes, you name it, you can do it! You're right, don't take it to the heart, you know you can do it! The sun will never go down on you. Go for it! and make it great!
Happy 'n peppie thoughts to you!
Sarada