I'll try to keep this short so as to minimize any melodrama or sappiness.
So I haven't been very actively posting anything on art websites in a while, and I have good reasons for that. Firstly, I'm pretty unstable, and a good bit of that had been further worsened by some things from some of these sites. I'll elaborate on that in a separate journal.
Secondly (and more prominently), for a long time I've been unsatisfied with the quality of my art. I have lots of little quibbles, but in short, I feel that most of my content is either too short, too unpolished, or some combination of the two. Also, I'm really inconsistent, and my galleries across all the art and writing websites I'm on are unorganized. It's something of an unspoken rule that higher-quality artists are not inclined to respect or think highly of lower-quality artists. I want other artists to respect me. I want what I do to have a positive impact.
I've been grappling with myself over what I should do about this, and I think I have it figured out, for the most part. Here are the steps I'm planning on (I'll add more as I think of them):
- Cleaning up my galleries, which may include removing or privating some things. Believe me, this is the part that's gonna kill me the most. It's just that a lot of my content isn't quite up to standard. Don't worry, I won't remove the really popular ones.
- Going through the comments on my page and replying to the interesting ones.
- Updating my profile info.
- Seeing how many old friends I can reconnect with.
- Improving my art and writing enough to where I can start taking commissions. This is something I've been eyeing for a while, but it's really hard to gauge objectively.
- Posting this update on all the art sites I'm on (besides wattpad because I don't think it has any sort of journal function). I'm still trying to decide if I want to do this on sites that I haven't touched in years, like weasyl and sofurry.
I intend to have all of this at least in-progress by or on New Year's Day. After that is when I actually start working on a new stream of content; the "beta phase", if you will. I'll probably continue to post smaller updates as they happen. If you have any questions, you can note me or something. There's this YouTube video that I posted a few days ago, as well. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WbvKZr9gjmQ
(btw, bonus points if you get the reference in the title.)
