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Basically, I’m really crazy burnt out. I’ve been drawing underwater and fetish stuff for about three years now, and its never been something that I actually personally vibe with. It was something I did purely for customers. And to be honest I’m really really worn out with it. So, I’m not gonna be taking any commissions that are underwater-related for the foreseeable future.
I’ve been doing 12-18 hour drawing shifts every day, including weekends, and its just really not healthy, especially mentally. While it says my work hours are 11-4pm, I've been working a lot outside of those hours and I'm really in need of a break. A lot of things are going on between this month and next month and I just kind of want to use this time to refresh myself and disconnect myself from uw art.
So I’m just in the process of restructuring my time right now. Before Christmas, because I had a much healthier lifestyle and was doing more physically, I wasn't skipping meals, and I was drawing for shorter periods of time (like 7 hours a day rather than up to 18;;;) but even though my work time was shorter I was producing things at a better rate and of a higher quality, because I had structure and discipline and was taking care of myself. I want to get myself back into that mindset in order to ensure that the art I create is the best I can do at the time. I want to feel like I am in a healthy, productive space, and I think that concentrating so hard on underwater stuff and commissions has just been putting me in a really grind-heavy mindset that has not been beneficial.
I’ll still be making nsfw content (if anything I will now be producing more now), I’m still happy to draw furry content and other potential fetish/kink stuff as commissions so long as it applies to my FList, I’ll still be doing sketches and updating patron regularly with wips, and I’ll still do requests and things for patrons once per month, but I just simply won’t be drawing underwater/snuff/related things for requests or sketches or anything like that. I’ll still take on commissions, but I will not be doing any underwater/drowning/death ones for a good while, and even then I shall be quite picky over which uw coms I’ll choose to take on. As someone who doesn't really get off on drowning and death and stuff, drawing and describing things like that have just all been really detrimental to my thought processes and concentration and ability to produce.
I just wanna be able to feel like I make work that I’m proud of and connect with, and with underwater stuff I just do it because its a job and makes other people happy. I wanna go forward and make content that makes me happy. I want to maybe have more interaction on the discord, putting up some question memes and goofy things like that about my ocs and producing more doodles and things revolving around them. I plan on developing my own content a lot, maybe begin a few little comics and do some short smutty one-shot stories, and overall drawing lots of smut and porn and indulgent stuff as and when I feel a bit better. I’m getting there slowly, and I have some art to come out soon, it just wont be blub stuff ahaha;
I totally understand if you guys decide to rescind your patronage, as I know that a lot of you guys are here for uw stuff. I really appreciate you all being here and supporting me as I’ve worked on these topics. I hope that maybe you’ll stick around to see the things I create once I’m in a healthier and more passionate place, even if the things I create may not be fully to your tastes.
If you guys have any questions or anything, feel free to drop me a line, and I hope you all get where I’m coming from :)
:My Links: :Patreon: :Commission Info:
I’ve been doing 12-18 hour drawing shifts every day, including weekends, and its just really not healthy, especially mentally. While it says my work hours are 11-4pm, I've been working a lot outside of those hours and I'm really in need of a break. A lot of things are going on between this month and next month and I just kind of want to use this time to refresh myself and disconnect myself from uw art.
So I’m just in the process of restructuring my time right now. Before Christmas, because I had a much healthier lifestyle and was doing more physically, I wasn't skipping meals, and I was drawing for shorter periods of time (like 7 hours a day rather than up to 18;;;) but even though my work time was shorter I was producing things at a better rate and of a higher quality, because I had structure and discipline and was taking care of myself. I want to get myself back into that mindset in order to ensure that the art I create is the best I can do at the time. I want to feel like I am in a healthy, productive space, and I think that concentrating so hard on underwater stuff and commissions has just been putting me in a really grind-heavy mindset that has not been beneficial.
I’ll still be making nsfw content (if anything I will now be producing more now), I’m still happy to draw furry content and other potential fetish/kink stuff as commissions so long as it applies to my FList, I’ll still be doing sketches and updating patron regularly with wips, and I’ll still do requests and things for patrons once per month, but I just simply won’t be drawing underwater/snuff/related things for requests or sketches or anything like that. I’ll still take on commissions, but I will not be doing any underwater/drowning/death ones for a good while, and even then I shall be quite picky over which uw coms I’ll choose to take on. As someone who doesn't really get off on drowning and death and stuff, drawing and describing things like that have just all been really detrimental to my thought processes and concentration and ability to produce.
I just wanna be able to feel like I make work that I’m proud of and connect with, and with underwater stuff I just do it because its a job and makes other people happy. I wanna go forward and make content that makes me happy. I want to maybe have more interaction on the discord, putting up some question memes and goofy things like that about my ocs and producing more doodles and things revolving around them. I plan on developing my own content a lot, maybe begin a few little comics and do some short smutty one-shot stories, and overall drawing lots of smut and porn and indulgent stuff as and when I feel a bit better. I’m getting there slowly, and I have some art to come out soon, it just wont be blub stuff ahaha;
I totally understand if you guys decide to rescind your patronage, as I know that a lot of you guys are here for uw stuff. I really appreciate you all being here and supporting me as I’ve worked on these topics. I hope that maybe you’ll stick around to see the things I create once I’m in a healthier and more passionate place, even if the things I create may not be fully to your tastes.
If you guys have any questions or anything, feel free to drop me a line, and I hope you all get where I’m coming from :)
:My Links: :Patreon: :Commission Info:
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Huh, very surprising to hear that you are not so much into the aquatic topic. We even talked about that a few times and you have made yourself quite a bit of a name with this..
Well, am hoping the best for you in every case! Do what you enjoy and don't overwork yourself further ;w;
Well, am hoping the best for you in every case! Do what you enjoy and don't overwork yourself further ;w;
I always wanna give the customers art that makes them happy and be someone that is approachable and friendly, so when people started asking for underwater stuff I kind of went along with it because I wanted to make art that made people feel fulfilled. It was nice to have people find my work and chat to me about what they liked, even if it wasn't something I shared. I saw it all as kind of a challenge, drawing things with thinking of underwater lighting, physics, how to stylize what I draw and how I write to reflect elements of it, but over time it has just gotten quite repetitive and draining, mentally. I think it's just time to shake things up a little, try a few new things, do some art that resonates with me more personally for a while!
I'll still be making uw stuff here and there, it just won't be as frequent!
I'm making sure I have days off now and I'm doing what I can to space out my time and be healthier :) I hope you're doing well too!
I'll still be making uw stuff here and there, it just won't be as frequent!
I'm making sure I have days off now and I'm doing what I can to space out my time and be healthier :) I hope you're doing well too!
I'm glad to hear you're going to do what's best for you and your health! I'm sorry things went down like this; I can't imagine how hard it was to draw things that you don't like, especially such dark themes. I hope you find happiness in your new artwork and that your health improves, panic attacks are awful.
Take care! I'm excited to see what you're going to come up with in the next artworks you make :)
Take care! I'm excited to see what you're going to come up with in the next artworks you make :)
Thank you for the kind words!
Overall it has just been a case of like the lockdown blues catching up, I think. I've been sat working on stuff that doesn't really vibe with me for a real long time now and I always wanna give 110%, but you cant give 110% 100% of the time, you know? I gotta get back to a bit of a healthier routine and work on me for a little bit, and in the long run it will hopefully make the art I create be bigger and better than ever :)
Ahh that means to much to me, thank you! I should have some fresh stuff coming soon :)
Overall it has just been a case of like the lockdown blues catching up, I think. I've been sat working on stuff that doesn't really vibe with me for a real long time now and I always wanna give 110%, but you cant give 110% 100% of the time, you know? I gotta get back to a bit of a healthier routine and work on me for a little bit, and in the long run it will hopefully make the art I create be bigger and better than ever :)
Ahh that means to much to me, thank you! I should have some fresh stuff coming soon :)
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