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Birthday and Yearly Retrospective
a year ago
Hey all waited until now to let you know it is my birthday! As I can also do one of those retrospectives that people do.
I first started by uploading a ton of older art I got usually for my various dnd characters and it was during that time I got my very first watcher here. To be honest I feel a bit bad about it in hindsight as I now draw VERY different things compared to the old SFW dnd commissions I got. I hope I don't annoy him with my constant weird uploads of other, niche things. XD
But after that I started off writing stuff and those are somehow some of my most viewed and favorite'd stuff. I guess being a Pathfinder/DnD GM made me pretty good at writing stuff! X3
Still despite being good at it I actually didn't like it too much as I found out when trying to write my own CYOA story. I finished the base story but got severely burnt out after a while and only 1/3rd or so of the alt routes were written before I stopped working on it entirely and it remains unfinished to this day. To be fair it probably didn't help that I tried including routes and kinks for everyone even if I wasn't that interested in the kink personally. As we can see with my current uploads I do enjoy writing stories for them quite a bit! So it was probably me trying to overreach was more so the problem than the writing itself. I'll try to stick to writing things I enjoy from now on because of that lesson... XP
After that happened I dusted off my old multiple years old drawing tablet that I bought so long ago and started drawing again or more like attempting. I had no real idea of what I was doing but I was feeling... okay with the end products. Not good but okay. And then I just so happened to be in a voice call with Dergum and he drew me for no reason turning my shitty drawing headshot of myself into something incredible like it was nothing! And ever since that happened I decided right then and there I wanted to learn how to draw and do the same thing to others and that was when I REALLY went hard into drawing all because of that kindness Dergum showed me! It is why, even though he isn't actually my top favorite artist or anything, I single him out in my favorite artists section on FA as he inspired me so much and I wouldn't be here without him to be honest. It was after that I drew my ref sheet and it took a long time to get right but I was finally happy with the end product and thought it actually looked good! And the rest was history as I experimented more with drawing and got a feel for things even experimenting with animations!
Now about a year later I'm here with nearly 2500 favorites and 190 watches for my art and my page and a ton more friends and people to talk to than I ever had previously! When I made my stuff and still to this day I get excited when just one person favorites my stuff and I always go look to see who did it and now I wouldn't believe how many people I would get viewing, watching, and favoriting my art when I first started! I even started selling and offering some cheap YCHs that actually sold some! And just small stuff like that has me so excited for the future! I can only hope I'll provide even more fun artworks and silly scenarios all of you will enjoy and look forward to seeing! Thank you all so much for your support!
And now for some notes and things to look forward to: I do plan on opening commissions sometime this year and to be honest I probably would've done it already but I'm currently focused on my Dragon Platformer gameover obsession and I wanna work on that first. Oh and in case anyone else thinks this the series isn't over! I just wanted something special for Appreciate a Dragon day! It will continue and it isn't actually the end! I added an extra blurb to both of them trying to hint at this just in case! ^^
... can you believe I originally made my feral form to be the more dominant one? Pfft that was a funny joke by me. XP
Speaking of which I really need to update my feral form's ref to my more modern standards. And while I'm at it I should probably make a ref for the Kobold King as he's such an important and "larger than life" ( ;3 ) character at this point too.
I haven't done nearly as many animations as I used to as now with the shading and details put in it can be very hard to get that all lining up looking smooth, I hope I can be better at it one day so I don't dread trying to make the animation smooth. xwx
And uh... I think that's all the important stuff. I would say more but this journal entry is already long as fuck. So I'll just leave it here. Thank you all for your support and encouragement! I appreciate all of it! I'm so glad to have started on this journey making art as I'm now super happy and enjoy my b own art so much! I look forward to continuing to make more art for you and myself! ^^
I first started by uploading a ton of older art I got usually for my various dnd characters and it was during that time I got my very first watcher here. To be honest I feel a bit bad about it in hindsight as I now draw VERY different things compared to the old SFW dnd commissions I got. I hope I don't annoy him with my constant weird uploads of other, niche things. XD
But after that I started off writing stuff and those are somehow some of my most viewed and favorite'd stuff. I guess being a Pathfinder/DnD GM made me pretty good at writing stuff! X3
Still despite being good at it I actually didn't like it too much as I found out when trying to write my own CYOA story. I finished the base story but got severely burnt out after a while and only 1/3rd or so of the alt routes were written before I stopped working on it entirely and it remains unfinished to this day. To be fair it probably didn't help that I tried including routes and kinks for everyone even if I wasn't that interested in the kink personally. As we can see with my current uploads I do enjoy writing stories for them quite a bit! So it was probably me trying to overreach was more so the problem than the writing itself. I'll try to stick to writing things I enjoy from now on because of that lesson... XP
After that happened I dusted off my old multiple years old drawing tablet that I bought so long ago and started drawing again or more like attempting. I had no real idea of what I was doing but I was feeling... okay with the end products. Not good but okay. And then I just so happened to be in a voice call with Dergum and he drew me for no reason turning my shitty drawing headshot of myself into something incredible like it was nothing! And ever since that happened I decided right then and there I wanted to learn how to draw and do the same thing to others and that was when I REALLY went hard into drawing all because of that kindness Dergum showed me! It is why, even though he isn't actually my top favorite artist or anything, I single him out in my favorite artists section on FA as he inspired me so much and I wouldn't be here without him to be honest. It was after that I drew my ref sheet and it took a long time to get right but I was finally happy with the end product and thought it actually looked good! And the rest was history as I experimented more with drawing and got a feel for things even experimenting with animations!
Now about a year later I'm here with nearly 2500 favorites and 190 watches for my art and my page and a ton more friends and people to talk to than I ever had previously! When I made my stuff and still to this day I get excited when just one person favorites my stuff and I always go look to see who did it and now I wouldn't believe how many people I would get viewing, watching, and favoriting my art when I first started! I even started selling and offering some cheap YCHs that actually sold some! And just small stuff like that has me so excited for the future! I can only hope I'll provide even more fun artworks and silly scenarios all of you will enjoy and look forward to seeing! Thank you all so much for your support!
And now for some notes and things to look forward to: I do plan on opening commissions sometime this year and to be honest I probably would've done it already but I'm currently focused on my Dragon Platformer gameover obsession and I wanna work on that first. Oh and in case anyone else thinks this the series isn't over! I just wanted something special for Appreciate a Dragon day! It will continue and it isn't actually the end! I added an extra blurb to both of them trying to hint at this just in case! ^^
... can you believe I originally made my feral form to be the more dominant one? Pfft that was a funny joke by me. XP
Speaking of which I really need to update my feral form's ref to my more modern standards. And while I'm at it I should probably make a ref for the Kobold King as he's such an important and "larger than life" ( ;3 ) character at this point too.
I haven't done nearly as many animations as I used to as now with the shading and details put in it can be very hard to get that all lining up looking smooth, I hope I can be better at it one day so I don't dread trying to make the animation smooth. xwx
And uh... I think that's all the important stuff. I would say more but this journal entry is already long as fuck. So I'll just leave it here. Thank you all for your support and encouragement! I appreciate all of it! I'm so glad to have started on this journey making art as I'm now super happy and enjoy my b own art so much! I look forward to continuing to make more art for you and myself! ^^
