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Setting up for Witchtober
2 months ago
So, I more or less missed Frogust. I've been working on a number of other things and my art kinda fell by the wayside. But I'm building up some stuff for witchtober that will hopefully be fun.
Honestly, I'm not sure if I can keep up at the pace I previously worked at. I'm not enjoying it as much as I used to, maybe because I feel pressured by the patreon bit. Gotta get something out every month because people are paying me. I appreciate it, but now that I've gotten back into some of my other hobbies, it feels like the art is just not that high a priority to me. I never much enjoyed drawing and the coloring was just a skill I developed and it all started out initially as a way to get stuff cheaper.
I need to find a new work-life balance anyway. I find all my time getting dominated by a single activity that I hyperfocus on to the exclusion of everything else. ADHD be kicking my ass. I don't think I want to stop coloring, since it's a useful skill, but I may continue scaling back on it. I want to try some more elaborate pics, but I can only ever find focus for the simple stuff that I can do quickly and I mostly use it to kill time between other things. It feels like an obligation more than a hobby now.
That and like half the people I used to commission have disappeared and the others have also scaled back a lot, so I tend to just get coms from the same two or three people now and there's a lot less fun in trying out new things.
I am still going to try and do Witchtober, though. I have a couple lined up and one more that may or may not do something. If others are interested in joining me for it, we can talk in notes. Otherwise, we'll see what happens.
Honestly, I'm not sure if I can keep up at the pace I previously worked at. I'm not enjoying it as much as I used to, maybe because I feel pressured by the patreon bit. Gotta get something out every month because people are paying me. I appreciate it, but now that I've gotten back into some of my other hobbies, it feels like the art is just not that high a priority to me. I never much enjoyed drawing and the coloring was just a skill I developed and it all started out initially as a way to get stuff cheaper.
I need to find a new work-life balance anyway. I find all my time getting dominated by a single activity that I hyperfocus on to the exclusion of everything else. ADHD be kicking my ass. I don't think I want to stop coloring, since it's a useful skill, but I may continue scaling back on it. I want to try some more elaborate pics, but I can only ever find focus for the simple stuff that I can do quickly and I mostly use it to kill time between other things. It feels like an obligation more than a hobby now.
That and like half the people I used to commission have disappeared and the others have also scaled back a lot, so I tend to just get coms from the same two or three people now and there's a lot less fun in trying out new things.
I am still going to try and do Witchtober, though. I have a couple lined up and one more that may or may not do something. If others are interested in joining me for it, we can talk in notes. Otherwise, we'll see what happens.
