Hello everyone, It's been a bit !! I haven't actually made a project involving my art other than something I had to post through scratch about a month ago. So then, where have I been? I'd moved to Toyhou.se and Tumblr for the past year or so, however recently my account on TH was closed for a temporary amount of time. So right now I'm only active on Twitter and Tumblr. Why did I become inactive on scratch? Well, as I've gotten older and am about to become an adult, I've learned that a site made for children to code is not a place for me to post my artwork. As the mods themselves have to deal with so many young children on this site that believe they're entitled to have their art protected on this "social media" site. However many of you fail to remember that this site was made for children to learn how to code and all those new rules and special report options were added due to us artists constantly harassing the adults that run this site to protect our art. Even if this isn't our place to be demanding it since this is not an art platform, it's a coding platform. I've reflected on how I used to handle situations involving my art being taken down/stolen/traced on this site, and I always blamed the mods. Which was never fair to them. I'd become inactive here since I lost interest constantly posting art dumps and I don't have the time anymore to do that. So what have I been up to? Well, I started upping my prices and selling commissions. I've been meeting a bunch of much better artists than me and slapping my money around like I'm in a candy store. Which has become unhealthy for me. While yes I make a lot of money, I also spend it very quickly. Recently dropping 500$ for a christmas present and 850$ on a custom. Over the past few months, I've accumulated a long list of commissions to work on as well. So I've been very busy with those too. I'm also preparing for college which has left me incredibly busy. I think a lot of people tend to forget that as we younger artist's get older and near 18, they forget how busy our irl lives become. Even I forgot that as I began to work 2 irl jobs. Becoming an adult is really time consuming and stressful. I struggle to get work done quickly, people often try to pretend that I have a tablet or pen that I can just use to make art super quick. But I don't. I use a very glitchy art program and a trackpad. I have no pen and no tablet. Meaning something as simple as a headshot can take me up to 7 hours to make and complete. I'm very heavily overworked and tired. So I often cannot even work sometimes on art. There's a constant pressure on artists to have to post consistently or else they won't get the same views as before when the newer younger artist shows up and captures the attention. And It's really sad to see this, as it happens across all social media platforms. So, what're my plans for the future? Well, I'm likely leaving this platform. I have no reason to stay as I think my time here has dried up. I only stayed to interact with friends and those friends have all left this platform. It's also hard to enjoy logging in and seeing children argue in my comment sections over something silly. I'm also losing interest in art, I have been for the past year, so I'll likely be leaving the art community as a whole soon but we'll just have to see.
Music: Cherry wine
