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ClayMongoose

I’m so sorry…

I know I’ve had so many commissions on my backlog for the better part of a year.

I have to cancel them all.

It’s not anything you did. It’s me.
In the recent past I’ve become increasingly critical of everything I draw or write.
I’m not as good as anyone else in the community, and yet I still wanted to contribute. Yet I feel as if I had bitten off more than I could chew by doing commissions.

Part of the reason I did so in the first place, ignoring financial aims, was because I had almost no luck netting any within the community in the past, slot limits and all. Furthermore, I wanted there to be at least SOMEBODY who wasn’t afraid to draw child characters wearing diapers.

That, I didn’t want others to be put in what was a familiar situation to me: trying to get a much better artist to draw for you, but he leaves only the slots that get eaten up in seconds. I didn’t want anyone to get railroaded like I did.

As noble as it sounded at the time, I was woefully lacking in talent. Why should anyone be charged for my Chris-chan-caliber squiggles?

I’m not a big name (or at least a positive one) within our circle, and my the indifference to my first disappearance in late 2012 was a big tip off. An outlier at best, a pariah at worst.

No more commissions. At least not for the foreseeable future.
I know a lot of you will hate me for saying this, but it’s just wring to keep people waiting forever while I struggle with my limited talent and motivation problems.

I can only draw for me right now.
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Percival1123532
1 month ago
Self-criticism is healthy if you want to improve at your craft. But you should never be critical to the point where you want to give up.
People commissioned you because they genuinely liked your work, simple as that. Your stories and drawings make people happy, they're entertaining. Your skill level is irrelevant, if people didn't want to commission you, they wouldn't have bought slots in the first place. The fact that people commissioned you just goes to show that some people genuinely like you and your work; and the opinions from people who like you are far more valuable than the opinions of those who hate you.
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