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Bring On 2018!

8 years ago

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I imagine you're all getting sick of all the "HAPPY NEW YEARS!!!!!!!111!!!!" journals spamming your inboxes so I'll do my best to keep this brief.



Despite 2017 being a pretty shitty year on a global scale, it was actually a pretty good year for me, personally.

I started using my FA account regularly and made SO MANY friends and met a lot of wonderful people in general.

I've been working on my art so much that for the first time ever I have at least one artwork for every month of 2017!

I've had more people watch and commission me in this past year on FA than in the 7+ I've been on DA.

I hit the 1yr mark for being on hormones, and am feeling much more happy with myself and more like my body is my own.

(Dysphoria became a thing of the past!)

I went to my first fur con and got to meet the wonderful Ponah in person!

I created my own Patreon page and managed to sustain the support from two wonderful people for majority of the year!

I started using invoices on PayPal.

I got my name legally changed to Ashley!

I participated in Art Fight and produced more art in one month than I thought was possible for me.

I started using my deviantART account again for the first time since I was 14.

I've watched so many wonderful new films, TV shows and anime that I discovered.

I actually started using my RedBubble account, and have sold several stickers.

(I know it was you spitfire_musicislife lmao <3)

I've upgraded my drawing tablet to a newer, less cumbersome model.

I bought a desktop computer for the first time since I was in high school.

I've gotten back into playing Path Of Exile, which is a game I got really into a few years ago and it always helps me with my anxiety and such.

I've been part of several TTRPG campaigns in systems like 5th Ed, Dark Heresy, and Eclipse Phase.

I got to try my hand at shooting both a 60lb bow and an old af rifle.

I discovered a bunch of new artists and musicians to follow.

I FINALLY FINISHED MY FRIEND'S BLACK WOOL HOODCAPE.

I started making speedpaints again.

I now own 31 different coloured Sharpies. Fite me.

And like a bunch of other stuff that I can't think of right now haha.

Even though life gives us ups and downs, I want to take the time to be thankful for everything that happened for me in 2017.

It may not have been the best year, but it was certainly a good one. At least for me.

And regardless of how the year has treated you and what holidays you celebrate, I hope the season has been enjoyable and safe for all of you.



"But Ash, you said you were going to be brief?"

"I know, I'm a long-winded asshole. Whoops."



Anyways, here's some things that I'm going to be implementing in the new year!



Completely rebrand to suchtrashley

Intuitive Designs is still a wonderful dream from when I was 14, but for right now I feel like it no longer represents me or my work.

So I'm going to be changing all my online handles to suchtrashley as soon as I am able.

I will need to purchase a Core Membership to do this on DA, and I'm looking into a work-around for Facebook's autistic "must start with a capital" rule,

but for every other social media website that allows it, my username has been changed.



Alongside changing all my usernames to suchtrashley, I'm also going to stop using my old "RedSkinnies" signature on my art, as well as my Intuitive Designs watermark.

I will start signing my artworks with a simple "suchtrashley", and perhaps will use the wing-only version of my watermark.



Verify my channel on Picarto

This one is a pretty easy one.

You'll probably see the journal for them to begin the process in the near future.

Basically this will just tell people that I am who I say I am!



Close my Patreon

This took a lot of heavy consideration, but I have unpublished my ONE FOR ALL reward tier as of last night.

I may figure out how to unpublish my Patreon page at some point, but for now there are simply no rewards available and thus no obligation on either side.

This measure may only be temporary, and I may open it back up at a later date for pledgers, but for now it's not something I'm focusing on.

This being said, all existing owed rewards will still be completed or at least refunded.



Open my Discord server up to the public

With only two patrons, neither of which really use Discord, I'm sure you can imagine how little the server I set up has actually been used.

I've decided that I'm going to open it up as a public group for all those who want to chat with me, 

and if I ever decide to publish Patreon rewards again, I will simply be adding separate roles for those who pledge.



Start selling digital art packs on PayHip

I recently discovered payhip.com and it's exactly what I've been looking for.

PayHip will allow me to sell digital art or base packs online and it will handle the product delivery to customers themselves.

I do not have anything up for sale at the moment, but I will be uploading various monthly art and behind-the-scenes packs sometime soon.

I'll let you all know about it once it's ready, of course!



It goes without saying but I will also be focusing on finishing my queue.

I will not be taking on ANY new works until this is done.



And, last but not least, I'm going to try out something a little different with some video content!

But that's all I'll say on the matter right now, so it's a surprise!



Thankyou all, from the bottom of my tachycardic heart, for sticking with me in 2017, and I hope you'll join me in all that 2018 has to offer!

<3