*ha ha, cause clockwork, and it's about changing up what i plan on doing, haha, funny joke*

As much as i like making art, and making art for others, it honestly feels like i never have time to make art for myself, or hold up my promises to people about what i'll make in recent times. The last art i made that i wanted to make was Iris and Anyssa's art, but before then, it was 6 months ago, when i drew Iris and Ashe for Christmas. about 5 months in between drawing arts that i truely wanted to draw. everything inbetween was either a special event, a one off doodle, or a request/reward for someone.

I will always love doing request, and drawing others OC, but it has gotten to the point where i am pushing off my own art desires for months before i can get to them, and more request will flow in while i work on that art. Reference sheets for my OC's, the lore of the Liyorlis species, and the free to use base fills i had wanted to create for them, even just generic fan art of characters i love. It is my own fault for accepting request, and wanting to over commit to making everyone else happy.

Unlike other artist, i work a full time job, and make no money off of my art. there is no passive income from my art, no commissions rolling in, and no donations from streaming art. it is entirely for fun, and for the enjoyment of others, as well as myself. I do complain to my friends (a lot more than i should to be honest, sorry guys, i know your reading this :P) how it'd be nice to just sit at home, and work on art, knowing that a lot of people are genuinly donating money to me just because i make art, aswell as other people activly seeking me out to pay me to make art for them. it just seems nice. Not having to worry about bills, not waking up at 3 A.M. just to drive for an hour to get to work daily, just having a good time making art, and what i love.

While i originally started art because i couldn't afford to pay others to make art, my ideal end goal shifted. i kept seeing large artist sicking their fans on small accounts for a variety of reasons; mostly stupid reasons. their style was similar, their OC's pattern was similar, the 12 year old kid on DA traced your art poorly (fuck you tetran, ya bitch). it HATED IT, and i refused to call myself an artist if it ment i'd be lumped in with such vile and toxic people. It is never acceptable to treat others as less than you, regardless of circumstances; some even treated th people who were paying them for commissions like shit. now a days, people will subtlely accuse others under the guise of "oh, they look similar..... how did this happen ;p" in hopes there will be some recourse while keeping their hands clean, and it still pisses me off.

My goal as an artist, was to show people that artist should have standards, and uphold those decencies, regardless of whom, or what they do in any medium. No one should be allowed to paraide through the streets attempting to snuff out anyone who dare draw something similar to them. that is not what i want to stand for as an artist.

Sadly, in my efforts to focus more on my own things, such as learning programing, 3d modeling, as well as improving my art in general, i can't take many request anymore; and those i take will be hand selected. It honestly feels a bit depressing having to stop taking request in order to properly practice art, and do what makes me happy, but i also feel like i'm betraying my own ideals of what artist should uphold as a standard for themselves. I want to make art that makes people happy, but it dosen't seem right to make art for myself, because i can't garentee anyone else will be happy with it.

Slowly, we will be shifting gears, and focusing more on other projects that you might not see, or may never come to light, and thats fine. i thank everyone for their support up till this point. i wish i could do more for you all, but there is a lot i still need to learn, and improve upon. I hope you will be there once i'm big enough to chalange the greats, and drag down the giants :3

-The Clockwork Jester

TLDR; we're going to slow down on the amount of request we take, we accepted too many, and neglected ourselves, and our obligations. We wish we could do art more, but time constraints. were studying art, and other feilds to make a video game hopefully.
we will eventually drag down the falls gods.
-Iris Jester,