Please read this. I have something I need to say.
10 years ago
I feel like I want to just close up shop here on FA. I feel like so much interest in my work on here has vanished. I used to feel welcome here. I feel like in the past people were more engaged with me. But now it feels like I rarely get to interact with even my watchers. The way I feel about how I display my artwork is how I feel a symphony would be like performing for an audience that consists of mostly empty seats. As time has gone on it's become too demotivating, and I just don't feel the desire anymore to keep posting here. Unless something happened to turn around this feeling of being... undervalued I don't think I can keep going. It's gone on too long and I can't take it any longer.
So am I going to once again delete all my artwork and journals? No. But as I said I don't think there will be any added to this gallery. If you have a DeviantArt account, you can watch me there. There's no difference in content, and I am more active there and I don't think I'll be leaving there anytime soon.
I may start posting here again if something turns my feelings around. But regardless of whether I continue to post things here or not I will maintain this profile and communicate with you on it if you so desire to communicate. I'm sorry to you all that this is happening...
So am I going to once again delete all my artwork and journals? No. But as I said I don't think there will be any added to this gallery. If you have a DeviantArt account, you can watch me there. There's no difference in content, and I am more active there and I don't think I'll be leaving there anytime soon.
I may start posting here again if something turns my feelings around. But regardless of whether I continue to post things here or not I will maintain this profile and communicate with you on it if you so desire to communicate. I'm sorry to you all that this is happening...
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But I can't stop you from doing what you feel like doing. Just remember if you need to chat or vent or anything, I and your fellow watchers will always be here.
Unfortunately I just don't feel like I get much interaction from my watchers anymore. Views and the occasional favorite are fine and good, but comments are really what are most important to me. Each one is a chance to interact with my "fanbase" (if you can even call it that) and they really make me feel good. Positive messages are the most important thing for me, because they show more clearly to me that my work is loved than anything else. And really, I stuck around here after my breakdown last year not for me, but for you and all of my viewers. So when I started to feel a like few people were still communicating with me... that's when I started to feel undervalued. :\