I've come to the decision of stop sharing my art on social medias because clearly it's not working well for me, I get too stressed for the lack of interactions with other users, being overshadowed by other artists and I've come to the conclusion of "Why even bother sharing my works if other artists are just gonna overshadow me? Nobody would like to even look or comment on my stuff that way"

I'm mostly doing this for my own health because I get depressed easily and when I started posting art, I thought we could all share out thoughts and feedback on each other's works, share our passions and just enjoy doing what we love. That's not how it went for me... it was always a struggle, a competition to make the cleanest lineart, the most accurate anatomy, who had the most followers, to have the most realistic shading and I'VE HAD ENOUGH

I only became an artist to express myself, share my dreams and passions with others but it has only been on a downfall for me, I'm tired of thinking I'm not good enough, I'm tired of feeling that I'm less than everyone else, I'm tired of being the weakest link... all this emotional, mental and physical struggle has become has made me think the worst of me, I can't even bring up what's good about me or my art because I just don't know any positives about myself! and I feel that... if I just stopped posting the world isn't just gonna stop spinning, nobody will stop doing the things they do... maybe it's for the best that I stopped posting on certain websites, this one included. I will try to keep posting my works on Kofi and Patreon without any sort of paywalls to start building a sort of decent portfolio, and I'll be posting more on my DA page and Telegram channel just so that I don't stress over being noticed since I feel those might be my only safe spaces

If you are disappointed that I'm technically leaving, don't be. I'm not deactivating this account at all, I will still use FA, just not post here since clearly the kind of content I make isn't well accepted here.

other than that, I hope you are all ok, I hope you're all doing well and I really hope that you don't judge me or trash talk me for this decision I'm taking. Below I'll leave the links to my 4 mentioned pages if you're willing to follow me on DA, join my Telegram chat. You can support me on KoFi and Patreon if you'd like, if not, that's ok too. But then again, it's completely optional to do all of this as well as reading this long journal

that's all I have to say, goodbye for now

Deviant Art page: https://www.deviantart.com/alexblastfire

Telegram art channel: https://t.me/+ifkSjktsZaw3ZDIx

Discord user: alexblastfire2