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Heyo everyone!
I've been getting a whole bunch of notes, favourites, comments, commissions and watches over the past few weeks, and just wanted to give a really big thank-you to everyone for supporting me!
I think I've received more attention and feedback over the course of the past three months than in the entire year before that, and I'm more motivated than ever because of it!
I often doubt my ability to progress, especially in terms of my artistic online presence, and feel stuck, like there's an insurmountable brick wall ahead of me that I just can't get rid of, but all your recent support has given me the feeling of actually moving forward a bit for once. Feels nice, I must say.
I'm well aware that my style, my entire methodology is not for everyone, I've always done everything in life in a weird, unnecessarily unusual way, and all the more appreciation do I have for all those of you that actually decided to follow my endeavours despite (or because of?) all the oddness.
My goal has never been to attract an insanely enormous crowd with the things I do, I mostly draw niche stuff for a niche-community inside of a niche-community after all, but being able to entertain a certain, ever so slowly increasing number of people with my scribbles, and occasionally improving my financial situation in the process, fills me with a particular sense of accomplishment.
Just recently I received my 800th watch, and the number still keeps rising, surprisingly, so I'm really excited to see where I'll land in the end.
It's been quite the little journey so far.
Long story short:
Thank you all so much <3
I've been getting a whole bunch of notes, favourites, comments, commissions and watches over the past few weeks, and just wanted to give a really big thank-you to everyone for supporting me!
I think I've received more attention and feedback over the course of the past three months than in the entire year before that, and I'm more motivated than ever because of it!
I often doubt my ability to progress, especially in terms of my artistic online presence, and feel stuck, like there's an insurmountable brick wall ahead of me that I just can't get rid of, but all your recent support has given me the feeling of actually moving forward a bit for once. Feels nice, I must say.
I'm well aware that my style, my entire methodology is not for everyone, I've always done everything in life in a weird, unnecessarily unusual way, and all the more appreciation do I have for all those of you that actually decided to follow my endeavours despite (or because of?) all the oddness.
My goal has never been to attract an insanely enormous crowd with the things I do, I mostly draw niche stuff for a niche-community inside of a niche-community after all, but being able to entertain a certain, ever so slowly increasing number of people with my scribbles, and occasionally improving my financial situation in the process, fills me with a particular sense of accomplishment.
Just recently I received my 800th watch, and the number still keeps rising, surprisingly, so I'm really excited to see where I'll land in the end.
It's been quite the little journey so far.
Long story short:
Thank you all so much <3
Very often, I find abdl-themes are depicted in a certain fantastical, unnatural way, as if they could only ever occur in our imagination, with aspects that are so exaggerated or reduced that the entire concept becomes more or less irrelevant as it drowns in the overall excessiveness.
That can definitely have an appeal of its own, no doubt, and it is ultimately a matter of style, but I've personally always been a huge fan of a more slice-of-life type of representation, where I use enough realism to allow the average person to actually relate to a picture's context, even if only partially.
I like drawing these characters slipping into their desired roles and filling them out, rather than having the roles themselves devour everything else, turning the characters into shallow mannequins, inhabitants of an empty corner with nothing else to show.
I think that by doing so, I create a path to normalization in a way, a bridge if you will. I'd at least hope so.
If my niche-art makes the whole topic seem like something excessive, something completely detached from reality, something hyper-idealized, or overly dreamy, something so odd that it can only be viewed as a caricature of its real-life-manifestation, then how could I ever hope for people outside of my own niche to find a connection to the topic without evoking negative connotations, without instinctively pushing the idea away as something "weird" and "crazy"?