Hey everyone. Let me preface this by saying this is no April Fools post.
As you have most certainly noticed, I haven't been active in general as of late. Part of it has been irl business keeping me busier than usual, but there's also been a general feeling of burnout and frustration that has permeated into everything, including my art.
Getting so many followers and peole who are willing to support my work has been amazing but, tending to lean on the insecure side of things, I often find myself having to manage impostor syndrome and imaginary expectations that I create in my head based on what makes numbers on social media. I thought focusing more on requests while leaving the rest of my time open for whatever would be a good way to ease my usual workload, as opposed to tackling multiple things at the same time as I had been doing up until now. The result was me focusing so much on requests that I started putting my own projects and ideas aside; don't get me wrong, I enjoy working on requests, but when that's all I end up doing over a long period of time, it starts feeling stagnant and unfulfilling.
Thus, I'm gonna be taking April off from taking subscriptions so I can focus on as many of my own ideas as possible without the excuse of "Oh, but I got this reward I gotta finish first!". I wanna make art for my bday, draw some Ocs that haven't been around for a while, go back into MxS, all that good stuff. I'll still be drawing, I'll still be posting, just not taking any money for it and, when I do come back to requests, I hope to be in a better headspace with newfound momentum.
Oh, and here's the comic WIP for March. I apologize that this is all I managed to draw for now, but I genuinely wanna finish it and make it look as good as I can. It may not look like it, but I really like this idea and want to see it finalized.
See you again soon with more!