Just saw the little cake icon next to my username (super cute!) which officially marks the day that I made my account on Sheezy! I knew it was coming up as I remember the day that I joined Sheezy very vividly for some odd reason. I remember hearing about the site from one of Fourleafisland’s livestreams and became immediately curious when I heard that it was like old DA and had profile customisation! I’m genuinely so glad that they brought it up because the community I’ve found here has been so absolutely wonderful and full of creativity.

Genuinely I adore it here, I love being able to consume a wide variety of art not just in terms of style but also in terms of mediums, skill sets and niches! This is the kind of experience I can’t really get with mainstream social media anyway. I obviously love the freedom of expression through profile customisation too, I just love visiting artists pages to see how they express themselves through their layout, colours and html! ^^ I also just love how friendly and welcoming the community has been too, and just the overall laid back and casual vibe of it all. I feel the most comfortable posting to this site than any other, and I hope that people can feel the same way too even if it’s still rather small.

Somehow I still remember the trending artworks that were circulating when I first entered the website too. I remember seeing this drawing of popplio by my beloved oomf chaosfetti and just fell in love with her bright and cartoony style immediately. I loved this piece by MAEPOP because of her wonderfully cute art style and how the piece has comic elements to it! I was so enamoured by the rendering of this piece by sunpurr, I actually thought it was a real deer porcelain sculpture when I first saw it!! And lastly I just adored the colours and outfit of the character from this piece by ducclord! I bring all these pieces up as I’ve found them all really inspiring and they were what convinced to create an account here and start sharing works of my own! :D

And before I sign off I want to shout out some of my lovely mutuals and people who’ve supported me whilst sharing my work on this platform. A big one goes to Maractean for being one of the first people to leave super kind and supportive comments on my earlier works. They’ve genuinely inspired me to want to actively improve on my art so that I can make even better artworks and they’re a super talented artist themself too! I know I’ve already mentioned her earlier but I gotta shout out Chaosfetti as her artworks are genuinely so, so so inspiring to me and shes super talented and kind too! Sparklzia for her continued support and absolutely jaw dropping detailed and colourful artworks. (I’m still not over that gift piece of Minty that she made for me, I LOVE IT SO MUCH RAAHH😭). And lastly Portusjacksoni for always being super friendly and silly/pos, as well as for having such a unique colouring style and strong shape language!

I wish I could mention even more wonderful people but this journal would be wayyy to long and full of more links than there already are, but genuinely, to anyone and everyone who’s ever supported me either through comments or through keeping up with my posts I can’t thank you enough for taking the time to engage with my art! It really does mean so much as this was the first time in a long time that I’d ever started sharing art outside of my smaller friend groups. And to know that my art had even the smallest impact on someone means the world to me.

And lastly thank you to the creators of this website for creating one of the few spaces online that actually caters to creatives! I love this site and I’m excited for the rebuild! :D