Taking a break!
10 years ago
Now that my commissions are more or less done. It's time for me to take a short hiatus to relax and refocus on some other things in my life.
Art might be slow coming for the forseeable future. I need to take a break from it after that last bit and try to find my inspiration again. I also want to experiment and learn more again and try to get my skill level up overall, it feels like I've been stagnating these last few years. I'm not at where I want to be.
Associated with this, I want to get back into animating. It's been almost a decade since I've had schooling and the last ten years have been a mad scramble to try to keep housed and fed with varying results. I imagine I need to relearn a lot of things but I have the time now. For now, at least.
I am also giving a good, hard look at my online presence and what galleries I want to keep and maintain. Furry things might be sitting on a backburner for a while, expect an occasional thing here and there, and the desire to pull my art is always there. I'll have to think long and hard about what I want to do with it.
There's also the outstanding question of if I should keep using Sky, but I wrote a good many journals about that in and of itself...
Also. Now that commissions are done and I'm not on a schedule as much, I think I'm going to reduce my caffine and sugar intake. I've been imbiding far to much for a long while now and its at the point where it's difficult to function without it and I don't like that. I'm also concerned about health issues so it time the bite the bullet and get off of the chemicals that are propping me up. I'll probably be a miserable bastard while it's happening, so I might be a little shy for a while.
Teal deer: Nothing terribly important, just going shy for a while. I'll journal up if anything important gets decided so I don't blindside you all.
Art might be slow coming for the forseeable future. I need to take a break from it after that last bit and try to find my inspiration again. I also want to experiment and learn more again and try to get my skill level up overall, it feels like I've been stagnating these last few years. I'm not at where I want to be.
Associated with this, I want to get back into animating. It's been almost a decade since I've had schooling and the last ten years have been a mad scramble to try to keep housed and fed with varying results. I imagine I need to relearn a lot of things but I have the time now. For now, at least.
I am also giving a good, hard look at my online presence and what galleries I want to keep and maintain. Furry things might be sitting on a backburner for a while, expect an occasional thing here and there, and the desire to pull my art is always there. I'll have to think long and hard about what I want to do with it.
There's also the outstanding question of if I should keep using Sky, but I wrote a good many journals about that in and of itself...
Also. Now that commissions are done and I'm not on a schedule as much, I think I'm going to reduce my caffine and sugar intake. I've been imbiding far to much for a long while now and its at the point where it's difficult to function without it and I don't like that. I'm also concerned about health issues so it time the bite the bullet and get off of the chemicals that are propping me up. I'll probably be a miserable bastard while it's happening, so I might be a little shy for a while.
Teal deer: Nothing terribly important, just going shy for a while. I'll journal up if anything important gets decided so I don't blindside you all.
Be wary of the caffeine withdrawal. I did the cold turkey method 10 years or so ago. It takes roughly 2 weeks to fully get through it. And it's going to be very rough.
Also would be fun to see what kind of animations you do.
I wish you luck!
(Although I will toss the hypothetical: would a week-long not-exactly-a-con in the Northwest Cascades be of interest? I've been trying to find friends and cohorts who'd enjoy that, have the money and time, so I could plan something like that. And I say a week, because the place isn't possible to do over a weekend: you need a day on each end just to get there, even if you live in the nearby city!)
relax and zen; you've been pushing the redline for a while now, and I'm glad you're getting a chance to ease down:)