I wish I knew what to say.

Yo I'm saying this with all honesty oki. I like your art. It's really good. Your style is very unique and I love the way you draw characters whether they are your own or canon. Your anatomy isn't bad at all and your coloring is really nice too. Looking back at your old stuff you have definitely made an improvement and I have no doubt you will continue to improve.

If you're worried about not gaining enough followers or views as quickly as others that is just something that happens. I've seen plenty of fantastic artists have next to nothing in terms of views and followers. Honestly I don't know what the best kind of content to post here is. I mean obviously furry porn but I've seen some porn artists go without and sometimes you see artists who are lacking in skill get tons of views/follows. Which is fine but the point is I really don't know. This is some phenomenon shit I've been wondering myself for like 35 years now.

I struggle with it as well and the best opinion I can give you is to just do what you love and don't do it for others! (which I know can be hard to do sometimes.) The more content you post the more likely you are to attract more people to you and your art. I love your stuff and it's definitely not a waste. Just keep doing you. (Also commissions/art trades/requests are all goo ways to get noticed.)

♥

Hey, I'm sorry it took me so long to respond to this. I had a combination of embarrassment over my semi-public break down and really wanting to think about what you said here. I don't want you to think I don't appreciate it!

Thank you for saying this, I've been having some struggles with identity re:my art lately, and to hear you say that I've improved is very reassuring!

You're probably right that for a majority of artists getting popular it seems almost random, but I have been hearing other artists talk about how much they market themselves, and I think your comment about commissions, art trades and requests really ties into that idea. For awhile I stopped taking commissions outright, and I noticed that was when I started to become less relevant, especially in the furry fandom. Although, I had also largely stopped drawing furries for awhile too.

I think I also got trapped in a sort of fan art bubble too. Most of the art I was producing was fanart for various other things, Star Trek, Steven Universe, and Fable, and while I got a little notoriety in the Star Trek fandom, they don't commission art at quite the rate furries do/did, at least not from me, haha. BUT now that I'm kind of "over it" when it comes to fanart I'm having more struggle generating ideas than I used to, and haven't been able to latch onto something I'm passionate about drawing since.

Which has been the most troubling I think. Not that I am unskilled, but that I am not as passionate. Maybe I'm just burnt out? Maybe I'm just having issues on account of my depression? I don't know. But I am worried about it.

Ya that sometimes happens. I think most artists go threw this "burnt out" phase at some point or other. Some times it's a short period and sometimes it's a long period. I think the best thing to do for it is to figure out what is causing it and try to work on it/find something you enjoy drawing again! I know that's a not very in depth answer but that's all I can really say from personal experience and not really knowing what is your burn out.

I hope that you can feel better soon. I know you're totally capable of finding your passion again and working through this. ♥