Quick status update + Personal Site
3 years ago
Status update:
It's been a while since I've done one of these. The last couple of weeks have been a bit of a mix in terms of activity and because of it I didn't get as much work done on art as I would have liked. Like this past week I wasn't able to do anything for two of the weekdays, and the week before, three of the weekdays couldn't be used for art either. And it's possible that I might get quite busy in the next couple of months, I'm not sure yet...
At the moment I've only been able to focus mainly on commission work, which is good for getting them done but makes me feel a bit down from lack of progress on anything else, not to mention I unfortunately tend to leave drawing practise behind when I'm focusing on commissions. I think I can only do so much work that involves the amount of focus that commissions generally require me to have, and I guess it burns me out a bit from doing other artwork things I'd like to do. The plus side is that I do get to finish some stuff with decent quality to it, which always feels good.
Website:
I spent all of yesterday afternoon and quite a bit of the morning today making the new website I'd been thinking about. It can be found here: Shadowhide's Art
From now on, it'll be the main place to see all my profiles on various platforms and so on, which will be shown on the home page there. There is a small amount of my artwork there but my main gallery will continue to be FA.
Also in the future, when I redo my commissions, I'm hoping that process will all happen mostly via the site, so that I won't have as many commission status links/text bits to update on my profile here on FA. It will be easier to just click a universal link that takes you to the site and shows you the open/closed status. I have also made a commissions request form for people who might not use FA and such.
Haven't decided what will happen regarding commission pricing sheets, I might not do them in the future or drastically change how I go about it.
Anyway, tried to keep the site as SFW as possible. Although the legal stuff with the providers does mean that I can put some NSFW stuff there if I wanted to, I probably won't do that for the time being. The site usability should be okay in most regards but some things probably do need improving, not sure. If anyone runs into any issues, just let me know.
Edit: Fixed link! Duh.
Edit 2: Site now has a separate NSFW section. I mostly didn't want to bother working out how I was going to go about it, but then I just did bother anyway.
FA+

It's too bad that you can't work on practice/personal stuff, but at least you're getting commissions and as you say getting the pleasure of completing them.
I think I see what you mean if I read the notice out loud myself. :P
Well, I put "mostly" because some people might consider things like say the blood on that one piece to be NSFW. I'd say there's a lot of things for example on FA that are tagged as "General" which I might personally class as "Mature", and vice versa. Basically "mostly" is intended to mean "no hard adult/explicit content" and I couldn't think of another way to word it.
Thank you for the feedback by the way, very appreciated. :D