I personally enjoy doing art trades with people, but I am pretty picky when it comes to doing trades. Because of this, there are some people that I would personally like to do trades with and others that I am not interested in doing trades with, but there are some people who either simply can’t take or no for an answer or push others into doing a trade despite being able to take no for an answer. I get into quite a lot of pressure and stress when this happens and it isn’t good for my mental health or wellbeing at all, and this gets worse when you include the fact that on some days, I have college classes all day and when I return home, I have the desire to take breaks after finishing any college homework I have. The fact that I am sometimes busy with college-related stuff all day is also the reason why I haven’t made a single drawing in 2 months. I am writing this journal because this happened to me while DM’ing someone on Discord who I only met a few days ago. I would love to get to drawing again, but sometimes, I don’t have enough motivation to do so. My digital anthro art style also isn’t perfect, and I would love to find ways to improve my art style. Because of all the stress and pressure that I experienced today, I would like to inform you all that from now on, I will only do art trades with people who have art styles that I really enjoy and/or I have been friends with for a descent amount of time. If I reject the trade offer, please be mature and move on and do not push me into doing a trade or bitch about it; if you keep on insisting that I do a trade that I am not interested in or feel like doing, you will likely be blocked. I believe that is about time that I put my foot down and inform everyone that not everyone who does art trades are interested in doing them with certain people.