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Hello! Update, and the future of Softness
4 years ago
Been out of the doodling business for a while. Turns out the pace I was keeping, on top of doing twenty colored sketches in 24 hours was PERHAPS, too much. Over the course of August, the problems with my hand got worse and worse, until I wasn't able to work anymore. Which, as you might imagine, was very scaring, and crushing for me. A lot of how I deal with worry and stress and things is working, drawing.
I had to basically totally stop using my hands in September, and got into physical therapy in November.
SINCE THEN, slowly, very, very, VERY slowly, my hands have been getting better. It's still pretty ups and downs time for them, I am able to work for an hour or two on most days, some days are better than others.
But, basically, it's sort of put into perspective that I quite simply cannot keep up the pace I had before. Turns out that you actually need days off or your tendons start to disintegrate. :U
THAT SAID.
I have some projects in the works that I think some of you might like, that I love working on that should come out at some point eventually. I don't really want to say anything about them yet because it's still very early days, but, I have an idea that some of you might like to support.
In the short term, I am probably gonna try to work on some more YCH type things a little more often. Get some really good ideas flowing in the times that I can really get some doodling going and let people get in on them if they like?
I'll still do commissions, but, facts are, I gotta be more picky with the projects I take. Might need to raise my prices eventually too, but I detest doing that so I'll have to figure out what's right. For the time I put into the work I do I make under minimum wage. I've never been about trying to like, get rich doing what I do or anything, but like. You know. I quit minimum wage work to do art because it was literally killing me. Now the work I am putting into this job is causing me injury. It took years to get to this point, but here we are.
So! Gonna need to reevaluate how I price my work and such, so that I can afford to take days off, because otherwise I will literally lose the ability to use my right thumb eventually.
And that would be lame.
All that said. I appreciate your attention and business. I want to make things that make people happy.
If you want to support my personal projects, you can do so at either of these:
https://subscribestar.adult/verysoft
https://ko-fi.com/verysoft
The more comes through these, the more I can work on some really, really cool things. I hope I can show you soon.
I had to basically totally stop using my hands in September, and got into physical therapy in November.
SINCE THEN, slowly, very, very, VERY slowly, my hands have been getting better. It's still pretty ups and downs time for them, I am able to work for an hour or two on most days, some days are better than others.
But, basically, it's sort of put into perspective that I quite simply cannot keep up the pace I had before. Turns out that you actually need days off or your tendons start to disintegrate. :U
THAT SAID.
I have some projects in the works that I think some of you might like, that I love working on that should come out at some point eventually. I don't really want to say anything about them yet because it's still very early days, but, I have an idea that some of you might like to support.
In the short term, I am probably gonna try to work on some more YCH type things a little more often. Get some really good ideas flowing in the times that I can really get some doodling going and let people get in on them if they like?
I'll still do commissions, but, facts are, I gotta be more picky with the projects I take. Might need to raise my prices eventually too, but I detest doing that so I'll have to figure out what's right. For the time I put into the work I do I make under minimum wage. I've never been about trying to like, get rich doing what I do or anything, but like. You know. I quit minimum wage work to do art because it was literally killing me. Now the work I am putting into this job is causing me injury. It took years to get to this point, but here we are.
So! Gonna need to reevaluate how I price my work and such, so that I can afford to take days off, because otherwise I will literally lose the ability to use my right thumb eventually.
And that would be lame.
All that said. I appreciate your attention and business. I want to make things that make people happy.
If you want to support my personal projects, you can do so at either of these:
https://subscribestar.adult/verysoft
https://ko-fi.com/verysoft
The more comes through these, the more I can work on some really, really cool things. I hope I can show you soon.
I, too, overworked myself on art because it's my job because other jobs were killing me, and now my own hand's kinda messed up. Probably not as bad as yours, but I have to be very careful with how much/when I work, and I can't go a full day without at least a little bit of pain.
Soft tissue stuff like the tendons apparently takes months to heal and can be pretty tricky. I hope you get feeling good though, and I'm sorry that's happening to you.
And months huh? I guess that's why taking two weeks off wasn't 100% effective. Dang.
That started in november. Only in the last couple weeks have I gotten to where I can get into a kind of normal work groove again.
Basically, if it's a tendon thing, you need to make sure you're stretching regularly, knowing the kinds of stretches you need to do and all that is invaluable. And if you're working long enough that you're hurting, you're taking it too far.
I deffo recommend talking to your PCP about seeing a hand specialist if it's an ongoing problem. You don't wanna be like me and get to where you just can't work anymore.
I should ask to get a recommendation to a specialist, yeah. Just been so long without medical attention for anything that it feels like an imposition when it shouldn't. lol
They very well may tell you that what you're doing is good, but, they ought to be able to help you work out a plan for further improvement and show you how to properly do the stretches and exercises you'll need.
I appreciate your support~ I just need to figure out how to do my work, without hurting myself.
Your art is super swell!!