Breezy. I say this as a person who genuinely cares about you and wants the best for you and as well for you to flourish.

You are an incredible artist, you make some of the most coolest, sexiest and as well just overall impeccable designs out there, especially the one you made for me over two years ago. I still truly think about it and love it lots and hope to get another piece like that from you.

I think you're a very fun, bubbly, kind and lovely person, and I genuinely wish I could talk to you more, I just feel sometimes that I'm being too much or am being annoying so I fear to reachout, but I really do care about you, that's why I poke you every so often is because I care about you.

You will keep improving, you will keep growing and i'm certain of it. Because you are a bright, and beautiful person who deserves the best.

Regardless. I will be here Breezy and I will do whatever it takes to lift you up.

I know we haven't spoken before, but I wanted to let you know that you're not alone. It's a rough time to be alive and nothing seems to come easily. I've never really bought into the idea that everyone is special, but I also don't think one needs to be. I'm certainly not.

That said, I find it hard to believe that you aren't fun, if what you create is anything to go by. And your art is unique and always puts a smile on my face, so I know you make at least one person happy (and I'm sure there are many more). As for your art peaking, I disagree. Your style has improved greatly over the years, without it ever not being yours.

“Every day may not be good, but there is something good in every day.”

It's kind of cliche, buuut I find it rings true. Sometimes birds doing silly things cheers me up, so here's a video of some crows having fun: https://youtu.be/tnUN4wIxzmI

We're ALL feeling stressed out and helpless right now. It's not that there's anything wrong with you or your art; quite the contrary. I'd say your art style has been steadily improving. But a lot of people lately don't have the money to buy commissions and/or don't have the time, energy and motivation they used to to engage in art content. But us artists must persevere, because art is one of the few remaining bastions of contentment and escape from a turbulent world that we still have.

You should never value yourself by how much the others do it to you. At the end, the only person who cares about you and can actually do something for you, is yourself. As you can see, there are people who care about you, but your value comes from you only.

And come on, you created a whole community from scratch, that's something remarkable and to be glad of it.

Be proud of that and love yourself for what you created, not for what others may or may not think.

*hug

I think my personal interest started to drop as more and more of the art centered less are the hot birbs and more around the giant green tube things.

Seeing your pieces is always a treat and the shenanigans your characters and others get into often bring a smile to my face and I'm sure I'm, not the only one.
Ultimately what is important is that you find joy in creating your art, that moment when something clicks and lines and colors fall into place on their own accord.
I hope you can find that spark again, just don't let what you think others believe smother it.

Personally I'm thinking it's a product of the fucked up times were in. Depression is hitting a lot of people I know and they're just curling up and wanting to be alone and not really interact. Just about anything to not hear what new horrors pumpkin spice Palpatine just unleashed.

It's best to value yourself, rather than seek external validation.

Your art is still amazin, Hon. The world is just such a shit show right now that the furry community is just depressed. We're all having to hunker down.
-hug-
You are not alone, Breezy.

I enjoy your art, though don't say as much, but I feel the mood when it comes to my writing if its any condolence.

I would disagree heavily with these statements, but I also understand where you're coming from. We were feeling similarly last year when we were in the process of creatively burning ourselves out with Avalon stuff and it's easy to feel obligated to keep doing what people want you to be doing art-wise if it's given you the success that you're enjoying these diminishing returns from. Genuinely, it might be time to try something new with your art and branch out into other topics and see if that brings your spark back, there's nothing stopping you from returning to LCU or cloning stuff, but you may just need some time away from them, even if it's what you're most comfortable drawing.

Comfort and satisfaction aren't the same thing and we've found great value in just doing what we want to do for our art and using periods of time where what we draw doesn't command people's attention to say "well, I'm still going to draw what I want to anyways, because I'm doing it for me, not them". At the end of the day, people liking your art should be secondary to the satisfaction you get in creating it :3

So sorry you're seeing yourself this way. I've always seen you as rather warm and pleasant, though I know we haven't really interacted. Feeling like you're at a plateau with art and social stuff sounds really discouraging, but being yourself is always something worth valuing, regardless of how anyone reacts to it!

You're only in a slump. It always happens. Motivation rises and falls. You'll be able to restore that when the motivation returns. Try drawing different subject matter perhaps, to try to reignite it?