Wowzers I just came back here after maybe a few weeks of inactivity to see a whole LOAD of notifications. Thank you for the spotlight (idk how they get chosen but thank you regardless!!!) and all the likes/new followers!
To all you new folks seeing my art for the first time: hi!!! I wish I had more art to show you but being a stay at home wife I don't get as much time as I'd like to work on art, plus I get burnt out easily when I do draw. It may be once in a blue moon when I do post. Though please don't think I am unappreciative; it's so awesome to know there are people out there that like what I do (even if it is just a hobby that I partake in when I have time and I'm feeling good).
Last month was really hard on me due to a car accident. No worries though - everyone involved was okay, no injuries. However my husband's car was pretty messed up and we had to pay $1K for repairs. The insurance company took care of most of the cost (around $2.5K of the full total). The most stressful part was that the people we got into an accident with lied about a lot of things to police and to their insurance agent, thinking that they were going to get money out of us. I'm pretty certain they crashed into us on purpose to try to scam us and our insurance company, but because we were merging into a different lane, the police found us at fault regardless. Needless to say, my holidays were dampened by this situation and it drained me of any motivation I had to do more artwork.
But good things are on the horizon for me and my family :3 I'm hoping we will have a new addition soon...
Again, thank you all who engaged with my artwork. I'm really proud of that particular piece which was spotlighted, so it means a whole lot that it was recognized in such a huge way.
Sheezy.art is probably one of the most comfortable and easy to navigate art sites I've been on in years. Growing up in the mid-2000s, young artist me really loved DeviantART when it was in its prime. New artwork greeted you each time you opened up the webpage, and you could also sort art by popularity if you wished to. Categories were available in the sidebar for faster browsing. DeviantART also did a great job separating various site functions, which meant that you weren't constantly bombarded with shop pages or advertisements while scrolling through posts. Everything was neat, navigable, and accessible. It was designed in a way that made interacting with art a breeze.
Artists were also given a spotlight; they could customize their pages in ways that spoke to their interests and aesthetics. Many art sharing websites (and by extension, social media platforms) have morphed into corporate billboards. There is no character to profiles nowadays. Modern platforms in their pursuit for simplicity and professionalism have become miserable, uninspired digital landscapes. And this reality is laughably ironic considering that these applications are geared toward content creators, whose job it is to be creative and stand out. Nowadays it is hard to imagine there is a person behind the portfolio (even if they are posting themselves too). It is all so disingenuous.
But I think Sheezyart is doing a decent job at balancing a sleek, modern vibe of today with the quirky, experimental art sharing platforms of the past, which were at their heart focused around fostering community between artists. This is the only place where I can count on my artwork being seen and, most importantly, acknowledged instead of simply looked at. That's another area where places like Twitter, Instagram, and hell even Cara fail; they're set up in a way that you're meant to just scroll, pause, and keep scrolling. Sites like that are more about consuming than engaging, despite what their developers will have you believe.
Sheezyart also appears to take a lot of inspiration from old-school DeviantART which makes me feel incredibly nostalgic. The clever assimilation of HTML customization and profile widgets is not lost on me LMAO. Even the way journals are set up here are echoes from that era of dA. It's so fun to see young artists do things with their pages and journals that I did nearly a decade ago. I think there is something here for everyone on Sheezyart.
Anyway. Soapbox over. Feel free to offer your thoughts below! :3
So I've been using the timelapse feature on CSP for the drawing of my laten character, Gaia. It's not even a huge file (2000x2000px), but anytime I try to save, the application slows down significantly and reaches the verge of crashing the program. Thankfully it hasn't actually crashed. But I'm terrified that it will do so at the literal worst possible moment (aka after I go in with detailed refinements) T_T
Also yaaay first journal post