As yet another site for sharing art on emerges, I'm once again going through all the art I've made in the last few years.
I've had a weird time with digital art. I abandoned it for a while when I didn't have time to do it and didn't have the motivation to do any personal work. There's this huge gap in between when I started college and graduated college five years later. I've learned a lot. I'm always growing. I'm not someone who wants to transparently make mistakes. I want to be able to share my learning journey with those around me...!

But I also want to put my best foot forward at all times.
Despite not wanting to be ruled by perfectionism, I find myself falling into that portfolio mentality with this account already.
I want to show you my best stuff all the time. I want to only show finish things. I want to not show things that may not reflect what I'm currently interested in or how I would draw now.
I'm struggling over this thought. When I was on deviantART, I remember posting in the sketchbook category that would hide what I deemed as "low-caliber" work. It would be on the same account, but not featured with everything else. I suppose I have that kind of categorization available to me here by specifically selecting what pieces in my gallery I want to show on my profile, but that doesn't hit right for some reason.

All this to say, I think that Sheezy's persona feature is probably going to be the way I remedy this for myself. I already made a persona for sketch stuff that I want to let be a little looser, but I'm scared to break the seal on that concept hehe.
I think I'd also like to make a persona for work that I create associated with my partner and I's streaming. I feel proud of those collaborations and I would like to share them, but I want it to have its own space wherever it lives. Something that denotes its part of a project.

At the time of writing, there are nothing on these profiles, but I made them:

• verylucky (my sketch persona)
• theHopes (my collaborative projects with my spouse persona)

I mostly typed this out to see my own reasoning in front of me and to possibly help if anyone else is having this kind of internal debate. Would love to know your thoughts about this as well, dear stranger.