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Here's to another rough New Year....
2 years ago
Oh… it’s the New Year? Dang it… the election is coming up too… this going to be a LONG years that will be too short at the same time somehow, isn’t it?
Sorry for the lack of activity on here for a while… at best I am making sketches at the last minute just to say I did DRAW something…
Work has me very busy, tried, and stretched out on my days off.. so it’s been hard to balance my budget, my time, and finding the proper use of my free time.
It also doesn’t help that my computer habits are more burdensome than proactive, as well as my own computers are getting so old that they’re getting harder to perform properly on them. My main laptop is getting close to 10 years and laggy, while a back-up one has LESS features and even MORE odd bugs to it.
I managed to get a new PC tower for myself on Black Friday… I could only afford the computer at the time, still need more for the general set up. I hope with this model, I can do more properly as well as make better computer habits that will make sure I am active and efficient with my plans and projects.
Also dealing with LOTS of depressing stuff as of late. With the real world… just take a look at the news and I am sure you will understand… with more personal stuff: Alot of the sites I used being obnoxious and clumbersome to various degrees (Blue Bird is gone because of a muskrat and DA somehow overshadowed the fetish-art with AI-generated NFTs).
It also doesn’t help that most of the “communities” I tend to hang out are either kinda dead with lack of activity, or the active ones where I barely seem to stand out at all. Even with the ones who I interact directly get little to no response, be it with private chats, giving gifts such as tips, my own art, or ones I commissioned.
Commissioning has been a bummer too… while last year I managed to get some great artists to get some great artwork done for big milestones… I also experienced some bad luck with them in general. Artists I regularly hire are either too busy, have gotten out of my payrange, have the slots filled out before I can EVEN submit a request, or they have just lost their motivation completely on some projects I hired them for… In general: I pay a lot, wait a long time for my turn, only to get a project that seemed rather rushed to what I wanted. Worst part is, with all of that: I still don’t get much feedback from others when I share them online.
I am also left a little depressed from the Christmas Holidays… I took part in a randomized Secret Santa thread online, and while I did gave some people joy… I kinda got nothing from it. And while I did get some surprise gifts from others and friends alike, I am a little disappointed how so many people kinda overlooked me. It didn’t help with how busy me and my friends were for the holidays… but now that they passed, it should better now.
Now that I vented… I am going to try to be more active in general. I will draw more for myself than just commissioning others… at this point: I might just only get one artist a month… with luck I can get the slot once I have the money… I will also try focus more on myself than trying to gain favors from others. I might enjoy their work, but unless they actually talk back to me when I make the effort of tipping and sketching them something myself, then they’re NOT going to get anything more than that.
Like I said at the start: This year is going to be a rough one too… so I am going to try to start it off as best as I can and hope for the best with what I can do for myself and my friends. I hope you guys can do the same.
Sorry for the lack of activity on here for a while… at best I am making sketches at the last minute just to say I did DRAW something…
Work has me very busy, tried, and stretched out on my days off.. so it’s been hard to balance my budget, my time, and finding the proper use of my free time.
It also doesn’t help that my computer habits are more burdensome than proactive, as well as my own computers are getting so old that they’re getting harder to perform properly on them. My main laptop is getting close to 10 years and laggy, while a back-up one has LESS features and even MORE odd bugs to it.
I managed to get a new PC tower for myself on Black Friday… I could only afford the computer at the time, still need more for the general set up. I hope with this model, I can do more properly as well as make better computer habits that will make sure I am active and efficient with my plans and projects.
Also dealing with LOTS of depressing stuff as of late. With the real world… just take a look at the news and I am sure you will understand… with more personal stuff: Alot of the sites I used being obnoxious and clumbersome to various degrees (Blue Bird is gone because of a muskrat and DA somehow overshadowed the fetish-art with AI-generated NFTs).
It also doesn’t help that most of the “communities” I tend to hang out are either kinda dead with lack of activity, or the active ones where I barely seem to stand out at all. Even with the ones who I interact directly get little to no response, be it with private chats, giving gifts such as tips, my own art, or ones I commissioned.
Commissioning has been a bummer too… while last year I managed to get some great artists to get some great artwork done for big milestones… I also experienced some bad luck with them in general. Artists I regularly hire are either too busy, have gotten out of my payrange, have the slots filled out before I can EVEN submit a request, or they have just lost their motivation completely on some projects I hired them for… In general: I pay a lot, wait a long time for my turn, only to get a project that seemed rather rushed to what I wanted. Worst part is, with all of that: I still don’t get much feedback from others when I share them online.
I am also left a little depressed from the Christmas Holidays… I took part in a randomized Secret Santa thread online, and while I did gave some people joy… I kinda got nothing from it. And while I did get some surprise gifts from others and friends alike, I am a little disappointed how so many people kinda overlooked me. It didn’t help with how busy me and my friends were for the holidays… but now that they passed, it should better now.
Now that I vented… I am going to try to be more active in general. I will draw more for myself than just commissioning others… at this point: I might just only get one artist a month… with luck I can get the slot once I have the money… I will also try focus more on myself than trying to gain favors from others. I might enjoy their work, but unless they actually talk back to me when I make the effort of tipping and sketching them something myself, then they’re NOT going to get anything more than that.
Like I said at the start: This year is going to be a rough one too… so I am going to try to start it off as best as I can and hope for the best with what I can do for myself and my friends. I hope you guys can do the same.
If I can get enough material to pack in packages to sell to which he gets direct profit from...