Been a while since I wrote a real journal. It is really crazy how time flies, and I never thought the end of the year could come so fast.
I told myself I was gonna go on an art hiatus in the last journal - that was too heavy of a word (and Zero, who commented on that was right.) Clearly, I'm a liar because I'm still doing art, and I have the drive to make lots of pieces. But I'm stuck in backgrounds mode for now.

I decided to not open the commissions page yet, still. I'm not at a state where I have enough good examples of the types of work I wanna have people commission me for (icons, stickers, emotes, halfbody drawings, full pieces that actually look good, reference sheets, et cetera.)
Also, I got into a chemistry class for the next few months. It's the last thing I have to finish off before I can (hopefully) go to college and then I'll be in school again to get a decent full time job that should hopefully help me just exist for the rest of my life (yay!)
And finally, I opened a Newgrounds, and I haven't even announced that on Bluesky (looking for a good time to,) and posted a good amount of my art over there, so there you go.

Being stuck in backgrounds mode is SO FRUSTRATING!! It was like this months ago, and it just hurts my head each time. I just. I draw a place, and there's nothing I know to put in it. It's all areas, liminal spaces, nothing in the picture. A friend of mine told me "this is good anyways, at least you're drawing something," but it's kinda been getting to me because I want to draw my characters in situations and I somehow fail to. The inspiration will come eventually. I just have to be patient.

On the bright side, I've been discussing making a persona in collaboration with my partner that does not use social media. I'll make an announcement when that's finished up (hopefully this month / next month?) I hope eventually we can get a collection of aliases going.

Thank you all for putting up with me. More stuff coming soon, I swear. Until then!

Good luck.
Have fun.
And, most importantly of all, do not die.