Long story short, I wanna get my backlog cleared out before accepting anything more. That, and while they're closed I can work on rewriting my TOS and stuff so I can figure out where to take this thing next.

Once I'm done with that, I will be reopening them.

That's basically all you need to know. Below is kinda personal, so I don't really care if you skip that or not.

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I gotta work on self-discipline. I've been at the point where motivation has run out and the "grind," as it were, set in. Motivation is a stupid and inconsistent force, and you shouldn't rely on it by itself to do anything, especially professionally. That's mostly why I've been going slower on commissions, and art in general.

At my peak I'm able to get something done within like, 2 days. Maybe a single day if it's small. But that's when I'm totally 100%. As time goes on the novelty of "wow doing art for money this is great" wears off, you start to get distracted and frustrated (especially with zelda), and the burden of having that backlog still sitting there can weigh down on you. That's natural. That's motivation running out. What really matters is your ability to power through those and still get stuff done at least at a decent rate, and I'm definitely not at that part yet, admittedly.

And I have to say, you guys are fantastic. You're incredibly patient and supportive (I wanna call out someone in particular who comments on everything I upload, but is positive namedropping in journals still bad? either way, you know who you are!) and I don't regret getting involved here one bit.

So remember, kids: Discipline, not motivation.