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Hey all! I've been on a pretty long hiatus in terms of commissions and I finally feel up for giving it a go again while I have the energy to do so. If you're interested at all, please visit my VGen and give a look! If not now, you can follow me for later openings :> My gallery here is a good tell of what I have to offer~
At long last ArtFight returns and thus I fight once more!! You can find my card and page here~
Once again Artfight is around the corner and I'm hoping I don't burn out this time 😅 But I'm super excited and might possibly redesign an old oc for it!! Gotta get on that.
Though I don't post here very often, I am much much more active on Bluesky! So if you'd like to see my wips and day to day stuff you can find it there~ But will also be providing my Artfight link as well.
It's been awhile since I last posted a journal here... and part of that absence was Artfight 2024 burning me out ngl LOL
As such, I decided to slow things down this year and not really do any commissions unless a friend approached me and even then might keep it on the down low. I want this year to be self-indulgent! To work on more personal projects and all the ideas I couldn't do last year! And maybe I won't do Artfight this year? I say that but I always get hyped regardless... but maybe I'll take it slower or not so much effort put into them as normal. Still quality, but not spending hours at a time buuuut we'll see how that feelings are as the time approaches.
On the health side of things, I've come to terms that there's not much more I can do and that I won't pursue any more lengthy doctor visits or experiments. I'm just at that point where I've tried everything and no one knows what to do other than pointing me back to previous avenues. Which I no longer have the time, nor energy, nor financials for at this point. I may have to be mildly in pain and fatigue at all times but I'm not in the horrendous state that I was a year ago at least. I found 1 thing that worked majorly and I'm happy with it. Nothing is perfect and I can't return to my old normal, but it is what it is.
Kinda the reason I want to spoil myself with what makes me happy this year. Get back into creative avenues that inspires me, get through my gaming backlog, maybe even roleplay again! Try out the new flute I got for christmas! I'm so behind in being kind to myself and need to work on my mental state better. So despite all the other bad things going on in the world, I can at least take care of myself first and foremost this year.
What a month... between the ffxiv dawntrail expansion and artfight, I'm exhausted but have been so productive all the same! I managed to get 12 artfight pieces done (last one to be completed in a bit), revenge all the art thrown at me, and relatively stayed on top! If only my team wasn't so far behind... All 4 of the teams I've been on has been on the losing side but oh well, maybe one year!!
With that all said and done, I begin my vacation proper tomorrow... an actual beach vacation which I haven't been able to do in at least a decade and then some and only because family invited me along, but it's super exciting nonetheless. Get to chill out for awhile, rest my poor drawing hand, and forget about work for a week which will be suuuuper nice. And once I'm back, it's back to even more art ideas I have that I want to complete!
Thanks for watching my artfight prog this year and can't wait to return on the next~