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New Year's Resolution: Less Posting, More Studying
11 months ago
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Hello one and all. I hope you’re managing to have a happy, healthy holiday.
As I mentioned in my previous journal, I stopped taking commissions in October so I could finally address some shakeups in my personal life. The biggest was that, in April, I got myself fired from my survival job of six years. Because I was going to be spending September and October in the UK so I could get married to my partner, I had to stay unemployed until November, during which I faced a myriad of mental and physical health problems. Then in August, I had to hastily move back in with my parents when the rent for my apparent suddenly got too expensive for me. I’ve spent the last two months of 2024 readjusting to my new normalcy, including a new temp job.
Before all of this started, namely after going to a convention for the Society of Illustrators back in February, I felt that I needed to start pursuing a full-time career as an artist more seriously than I’d been doing up to this point, and I took my firing as the final push (or, more cynically, as self-sabotage, but that’s another story). In the midst of all the chaos, I took an intro to storyboarding class online, which made me realize that there were a number of fundamental skills (gesture, perspective, composition, animation, etc.) that I felt I needed to take the time to seriously improve before I started working on a portfolio or looking for jobs.
Therefore, my New Year’s Resolution is to spend most of 2025 studying and practicing on my own time, essentially putting myself back through art school. And that means a lot less posting.
While I don’t post especially frequently, for now, creating art with the intention of sharing it online is going to be a low priority. This also means commissions will be taken on an “if and when” basis. I know a few folks are waiting patiently for when I re-open for commissions, I’ll thank you all for your continued patience.
This is also in an effort to be less chronically online, to use the internet more as a tool for when I have something I actually want to share instead of just compulsively checking the same three sites over and over or doomscrolling. I’m not giving it up cold turkey, as trying that back in June is one of the things that lead to my aforementioned mental health problems, although I am going to take an indefinite hiatus from social media sites like Bluesky (it only took two months!) and Instagram. Plus, while progress continues to be made, the animated short film I’ve been largely creating by myself since 2021 is still a ways off from being finished.
TL, DR: commissions are now strictly a once-in-a-while thing, everything else I post will be based on whether or not I want to, if you don’t hear from me for a while it’s not because I’m dead, it’s because I’m studying or working on a big project.
Thanks in advance. Happy holidays, I’ll see you when I see you.
As I mentioned in my previous journal, I stopped taking commissions in October so I could finally address some shakeups in my personal life. The biggest was that, in April, I got myself fired from my survival job of six years. Because I was going to be spending September and October in the UK so I could get married to my partner, I had to stay unemployed until November, during which I faced a myriad of mental and physical health problems. Then in August, I had to hastily move back in with my parents when the rent for my apparent suddenly got too expensive for me. I’ve spent the last two months of 2024 readjusting to my new normalcy, including a new temp job.
Before all of this started, namely after going to a convention for the Society of Illustrators back in February, I felt that I needed to start pursuing a full-time career as an artist more seriously than I’d been doing up to this point, and I took my firing as the final push (or, more cynically, as self-sabotage, but that’s another story). In the midst of all the chaos, I took an intro to storyboarding class online, which made me realize that there were a number of fundamental skills (gesture, perspective, composition, animation, etc.) that I felt I needed to take the time to seriously improve before I started working on a portfolio or looking for jobs.
Therefore, my New Year’s Resolution is to spend most of 2025 studying and practicing on my own time, essentially putting myself back through art school. And that means a lot less posting.
While I don’t post especially frequently, for now, creating art with the intention of sharing it online is going to be a low priority. This also means commissions will be taken on an “if and when” basis. I know a few folks are waiting patiently for when I re-open for commissions, I’ll thank you all for your continued patience.
This is also in an effort to be less chronically online, to use the internet more as a tool for when I have something I actually want to share instead of just compulsively checking the same three sites over and over or doomscrolling. I’m not giving it up cold turkey, as trying that back in June is one of the things that lead to my aforementioned mental health problems, although I am going to take an indefinite hiatus from social media sites like Bluesky (it only took two months!) and Instagram. Plus, while progress continues to be made, the animated short film I’ve been largely creating by myself since 2021 is still a ways off from being finished.
TL, DR: commissions are now strictly a once-in-a-while thing, everything else I post will be based on whether or not I want to, if you don’t hear from me for a while it’s not because I’m dead, it’s because I’m studying or working on a big project.
Thanks in advance. Happy holidays, I’ll see you when I see you.
Best of luck to you, dude. You got this!!! 👍👍