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New year, new eyeballs, new projects!
11 months ago
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Greetings, Dear Reader! And a belated Happy New Year to you! What's that? Two weeks is past the grace period? Nonsense, time is an illusion and our physical bodies are nothing more than the manifested dreams of a slumbering elder god. Don't worry, they awaken soon.
Hard to believe a whole year has passed again, but here we are, looking down the barrel of 2025. You good? It's pretty crazy all across the globe right now. In trying times like these, it's right to turn towards art. Whether folks realize it our not, we've been processing our collective trauma through art for ages. Art is necessary, especially when it challenges us. But also when it doesn't. Go to your art place, make it as high or low brow as you please, but keep making it. Don't let anyone convince you that the things you make don't have value, because they're wrong. I'm rooting for you, even if no-one else is.
That said, welcome, recent watchers! Good to have you aboard! If you're new to all this, and I assure you that I am gesturing very suggestively as I type, I'd like to take the opportunity to inform you that you're in excellent company. That thing you like? I also like that thing. It's why you're here, after all. Drop hints on the pictures you've enjoyed or chat me up, you'll get more!
So what's on the agenda? I got off to a little bit of a slow start this year, but behind-the-scenes productivity has been steady! That Mysterious Project continues to chug along, and although there's not much to show at the moment, a website is in the works. This year's resolution, perhaps? It's pretty ambitious, but maybe! Grizelda and friends want to play with you.
We're also coming up on a year since my last interactive thang with all you cool folks and your sexy OCs. I had a lot of fun doing a raffle with you last year, so I've got a couple of ideas for new contests to run, sure to please both the sexy crowd and the scary crowd. You interested? Get your refs ready!
In other news, I'm still giving the ol' Social Media another try at Bluesky, in case you're the type that likes up-to-the-minute info on my preferred memes and brainrot. I'm still not really sure I get it, but I think I'm making some progress. It's a game, right? Boss fight's gotta be around here somewhere...
Hard to believe a whole year has passed again, but here we are, looking down the barrel of 2025. You good? It's pretty crazy all across the globe right now. In trying times like these, it's right to turn towards art. Whether folks realize it our not, we've been processing our collective trauma through art for ages. Art is necessary, especially when it challenges us. But also when it doesn't. Go to your art place, make it as high or low brow as you please, but keep making it. Don't let anyone convince you that the things you make don't have value, because they're wrong. I'm rooting for you, even if no-one else is.
That said, welcome, recent watchers! Good to have you aboard! If you're new to all this, and I assure you that I am gesturing very suggestively as I type, I'd like to take the opportunity to inform you that you're in excellent company. That thing you like? I also like that thing. It's why you're here, after all. Drop hints on the pictures you've enjoyed or chat me up, you'll get more!
So what's on the agenda? I got off to a little bit of a slow start this year, but behind-the-scenes productivity has been steady! That Mysterious Project continues to chug along, and although there's not much to show at the moment, a website is in the works. This year's resolution, perhaps? It's pretty ambitious, but maybe! Grizelda and friends want to play with you.
We're also coming up on a year since my last interactive thang with all you cool folks and your sexy OCs. I had a lot of fun doing a raffle with you last year, so I've got a couple of ideas for new contests to run, sure to please both the sexy crowd and the scary crowd. You interested? Get your refs ready!
In other news, I'm still giving the ol' Social Media another try at Bluesky, in case you're the type that likes up-to-the-minute info on my preferred memes and brainrot. I'm still not really sure I get it, but I think I'm making some progress. It's a game, right? Boss fight's gotta be around here somewhere...
On the plus side, you have a fairly devoted crowd that seems pretty eager for your brand of gal pals! It's important to keep in mind that you've got something that AI doesn't: The ability to create new things. AI copies and regurgitates, so while the stuff it generates might look new and perfect, it's actually the labor of a hundred different artists being layered like transparencies on a projector until the resulting stack can fool a human eye. It's a neat trick, but it also wouldn't exist at all without us making the raw data that it copies. It's essentially just a mirror, but with all the interesting little rough spots that make a piece of art uniquely human filed off in the reflection.
If you're feeling like you're running in circles, now might be good time to try something radical, just for fun. Even if it's only for yourself, in private. I've been really enjoying adding more monsters and boys to my repertoire, but there's also nothing saying that your experiments even need to be figurative. When I'm struggling with the negative, I also try to remember the things that brought me to art in the first place: The desire to express myself visually, to tell stories, to connect with others. Your mileage may vary, but going back to that kind of thought place might help you recenter!
I see a lot of folks grappling with big emotions in this funhouse mirror maze timeline, and I recognize a lot of the same mental feedback loops from my own struggles. Self-doubt can be insidious and sometimes all it takes is a little encouragement from outside to shake it off. I think you're absolutely right to be frustrated with AI, but you're also part of one of the more vocal pro-artist art communities, which is honestly pretty great! It's really cool to see how your art has evolved over the years, so don't get too discouraged by what's going on right now. Crazy times make for crazy art; embrace it!