I'm starting to think about toning down my detail level on drawing muscle furs. It has been rather taxing on time and processing that it takes too long to draw those pictures. Especially when it gets aggravating to try remembering what certain details looked like and at what angle with the way I make things all connected together like puzzle pieces. It might be a slight downgrade, but I feel like it would be less stressful from trying to be too much of a perfectionist with my work.

I've been contemplating about changing my art method for something that could be more streamlined. The method I had been doing for almost two decades has been where I draw a sketch, followed by the vector outline, coloring, and if I feel it necessary, add shade & lighting. Sure, the finished product looks clean, but it takes a long time to do so; and with my sense of perfectionism, it can be stressful.

So I have been thinking I should experiment with a different way of drawing. Something along the lines of some doodles I've done where I focus on drawing the shapes with colors first and then draw the detailed outlines later (for example, Wile E's recent anniversary pic). It might not be as clean as the usual art, but it could be somewhat expressive.

For almost 10 years since I made the account here, the most faves I got from one picture was just over 200 faves, and only 7 others have barely raised over 100 faves.
And only garnered over 600 watchers; a fraction of which are either disabled, inactive, or possibly bot accounts.
I know I'm not the most popular, professional, trendy, nor social artist, but as of late in my life, that's just a virtue I more likely won't desire at some point. Perhaps it'll be like winning the lottery to me, it may, or it may never happen.
Either way, I'd rather just do my own thing and show whatever I make till then.

As in the new Looney Tunes movie, The Day The World Blew Up, that is.

I got to say, it's unbelievable that it took WB over 90 years to make an actual feature length, fully animated, Looney Tunes movie. A movie that wasn't a compilation with few new animation segments, a direct to video/TV special, or another Roger Rabbit-like movie.

The movie was great; there was never a dull moment, and it was enjoyable to watch. If you're a fan of Looney Tunes, this film starring Porky, Daffy, and Petunia won't disappoint. I definitely recommend it.

Hopefully, if this movie garners more attention and revenue, this could give WB the idea that animated movies like this should be made more often; while most certainly change their minds about shelving Coyote vs. ACME.

What if my art becomes a blurred line between real art to AI art? As AI becomes more advanced while still having some imperfections, what if that could be the same with my art? Sure, my art might not be at par as to what AI can mimic, and even I can have some imperfections in some of my art (backgrounds, body details, etc.) But who's to say that AI could somehow pick up traits of artists around my skill and make the line even more blurred between authenticity & artificial, soon?

All is well, and the real support has fixed the issue. I'm still kicking myself for falling from such a trick.

Just a heads-up to anyone who added me on Discord. I just lost it to a rather convincing tactic of a hacked friend who accused me of phishing to see a fake Discord support person. It made me change my email address in that account and wanted me to log off afterward. It wanted me to pay a $150 verification processing fee, which I didn't given at the time I was not at home, so at least that didn't through after looking up the legitimacy of that.

Now I'm currently trying to get that settled somehow at the moment. If not, I'd have to make a new account somehow.

If you weren't such a cold place, I'd move up there!

Power has finally been restored in my neighborhood, and now things are getting back to normality.

I've been out of power since Friday due to Hurricane Helene, and just barely able to get a connection. Luckily my place hasn't been too damaged compared to other areas around me. Hopefully the power will be back soon.

You can find me on DeviantArt and Weasyl.

DeviantArt: https://www.deviantart.com/zgrooz

Weasyl: https://www.weasyl.com/~Zgrooz

Sure I'm still kinda stuck in an art block, but I have been developing things here and there. So when the time comes, I'll be posting art again soon.

I know. I'm just a bearer of bad news; hardly anything good about myself, but I've come to a decision that I'm going to stop doing art all together. I feel as though that I've come to a plateau of improvement and losing a sense of creativity that would come off as being repetitive; such as same poses, angles, and so on. I may have lots of ideas that have circulated in my mind for ages, but most of them require more effort than the usual amount I do in pictures; which in turn less feedback anyway. This doesn't mean that I'm clearing my galleries, it means that I won't be uploading any more art. I'd still be around just to lurk and check messages from time to time and be less responsive.

Also, I'm sorry to those that wanted to commission me earlier that I haven't gotten started on anything during a time that I was having an art block, as they are cancelled.

I feel like I've lost all motivation for art nowadays. Don't know if it's laziness or the bad case of art block, but I'm becoming less productive with my art. Maybe this hobby no longer interests me anymore, and instead I should just focus on getting me a new job. It's not like I'm ever going to utilize my talent to the fullest and make something out of it, so why even bother?

I've got some good news and bad news.

The good news is that I've managed to get myself a new PC last month, and got me a new car on Monday.
The bad news is buying the computer with a credit card and financing for a brand-new car means that I have to pay a lot of debt in monthly bills.
So unless I find me a better job somewhere down the line, I might have to open up on commissions as a side job. I know I tend to never go full-heartedly on these things, but money being rather tight as it is, I have to make some more money somehow, and this is the only thing I could do and come up with. The prices and rules are written on my profile tab, so if anyone's interested, note me, and I'll put them on one of four slots.

Another year, another time to feel more inadequate about myself with every passing moment. At least I managed to scrape by and bought myself a new computer which will be coming soon; so at least that's good. Now, if only I could find me a better job to be able to afford a car and soon a place for my own, but that would be a lottery chance to get that latter one.

I should have made some better decisions back then. Should have taken a more practical skill than to be an artist, an animator, video game designer, or whatever I've indecidedly wanted to be.

I need to save up on a desktop computer, the laptop I have for the past 10 years is about to become obsolete, and will eventually succumb to malware and such. I can't juggle two jobs to save my life; let alone do commissions, and I have some debits to pay off currently. My only option is to cut back on some things, and slowly save up from the current job. Hopefully I might get me a decent desktop before the end of the year.

I figure I'd try this interactive post to talk with people about me and other things.

I know that I don't have a fursona of sorts nor a whole lot of original characters, but it's something.

I might not answer right away as I might be busy with other things, and I'll try my best to answer them nicely depending on certain subjects.

Welp... on Sunday, I had to quit that one dish washing job from that one place two weeks ago due to some anxieties of long grueling hours as well as the long trips to get from home to there. But Monday, I found out that a small local BBQ restaurant from the very town that I live in was hiring for a dishwasher! So I got started earlier today, during the afternoon, and compared to that other restaurant to this one, it was a piece of cake! Being a small restaurant it's a little slow at first until a couple of hours before closing, and the procedures to washing the dishes were a lot easier. And the best part, the restaurant is only about 4 miles from where I live, so no more having to leave an hour early just to commute through my hometown to the next town over; which has always been a thing, sadly.

Hopefully this job will provide me for the time being as it not very often that I could have a job that is just a stone throw away from where I live, so I'm going to stick with it.

I got me a new job yesterday. I now work as a dishwasher at an Italian restaurant. The hours are long (at least for now until I get a proper schedule), but the pay rate is good. At least it's straightforward and I do have some coworkers around the section. Might not be the most exciting job to have, but at least I got the job the very next day after applying than the two other places I tried getting a job for and never got a call from. After my first day on the job, while the first job I've had that almost went for 12 hours in one shift (with two 30 minute breaks at least), I'd say it went pretty well, and I hope this should supply me later on in life.

I quit my job yesterday. I was having an anxiety attack and didn't want to work there anymore. We had been understaffed for a long while and the new standards were making my job more inconvenient in my workflow, and I couldn't stand being pressured with everything about it. So now I'm out from the job and I just have a couple of weeks to recuperate before I think about finding a new job.
At this point, I don't know if I can ever find the right job for me other than some dead-end jobs that won't last long due to my temperament and inability to multi-task in some aspects. Sometimes I don't think I could function in this way of living where you work for little money to pay for the big expenses of living. And I know well that I can't fathom doing two jobs; my mind won't handle it.
I wish I could file for disability, but Aspergers is a rather grey area, and no one takes it as seriously as autism is.

Sometimes, I wonder why I bother with getting some things that I'd plan to make something out of them and yet never get to make anything from them.
I have Flash so that I could do animations, but barely ever done anything aside from two short animations (which will now be reduced to just doing gifs if I were to ever make anything [RIP Flash]). I got a voice recorder for if I were to do voice acting or possibly podcasts, but I haven't thought of anything yet. And then just recently, I got some fabrics so that I may craft something, but I feel like I wouldn't have the time to develop the skills for it.
If I had all the time in the world without the need for a job, I would have the time to develop some new skills, but I can never use my free time wisely; I'm not good at multitasking. I'd have to win the lottery so that money for necessities would not be an issue, and I would have all the time to myself to create something. Of course, that's wishful thinking. If it's a skill that I never developed years before, why start now? Just be stuck with a dead-end job and run through the rat race.

I'm going to cancel commissions, because it seems that things have become a bit more difficult for me to do much artwork as of late. My full-time job has been rather taxing on me lately where I have been working an hour overtime for the past couple of months, and it really has been killing my motivation to do art as of late; causing me to procrastinate and stress out. What odd timing that the moment I decided to open commissions again, life decides to remind me that I can't handle two jobs, and become inconveniently difficult.
So I apologize for those that wanted a picture from me only to be put on hold then become canceled.

I've decided to open up for commissions again. As always, the rules will be on the profile tab; this time with a list of what I can and can not do.

I've decided I'm just going to do like I tend to do as per usual; if I plan on a fetish related picture on occasion, I'll choose to do it if I want to.

Last week was just another bad episode of self reflection and was having some insecurities. I guess I haven't truly embraced the madness of the fandom yet.

Sometimes I wonder if I should just give in to my artistic urges and do the same kind of fetish smut I used to do from my old account. Besides, that's basically what most people here are watching me for, and I have been uploading some occasionally on the site anyway.

UPDATE: After some thinking, I've decided that I should just keep these kinks to myself; that is if I decided to make a finished product.