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hey fellas
this will be a more personal announcement than what you are used to seeing, but honestly I don't feel that passionate about art anymore. it just doesn't click for me like it used to, i don't feel motivated to draw anymore ever since a few months now and trying to force it just makes me hate it even more, and I feel like the cause for it is to have turned this into a pseudo-job, where as before I used to do art whenever I pleased to, nowadays with it being my main source of income I feel like I got stuck in this position where I must draw something every day to make ends met, and I've tried to take more spaced breaks, which worked at first, but it ended up making me feel even more guilty of not doing any art for social media, and any time I spent on personal or unrelated art feels like could have been spent way better on doing things for those places.
I feel like that's the culprit of it all, after all this kinda turned into my job due to it, so I'm gonna take the nuclear option and go on a break on almost all social medias, and focus on doing more personal or experimental art in places like this/my discord server (anubihub) or other places where friends and colleagues are.
I don't know how long this break will last, it might never end even, but when I come back to posting new art on public, online spaces, I want to come back with a fresh new focus, something that makes me happy again.
those supporting monthly on ko-fi will still get the new art I do over there, they'll be tagged as "Exclusive Content" instead of "Early Access" due to this change though.
gamejolt will get some reposts of oldies because I have a backlog of them that need some reposting there, but for any other social media, don't expect anything for a while.
it was this or quitting art, and i dont wanna quit art yet, i wanna keep trying for more things.
As we hit the comment threshold I was looking for, I sat down to make a new chapter image. This is the image for chapter four, "Mourning Chores," featuring the first depiction of Corea.https://hpkomics.com/2024/11/fang-bone-4-mourning-chores/Every 5 new comments on a Fang & Bone chapter unlocks a new image.#amWriting #art
other artists that inspire me for this watercolor leveling up : Emma Rios and her comic Anzuelo (https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Anzuelo/Emma-Rios/9798368809267)and Guillaume Siguelin with his comic PTSD (https://www.ankama-shop.com/en/ankama-graphic-novel-20th-anniversary-limited-edition/4263-ptsd-20th-anniversary-limited-edition-guillaume-singelin.html)PTSD has the red sketching lines kept in the final pages. Now that's something i was already doing bc i'm lazy, but seeing it on a stylish, finished comic really excited me! idk if i should keep them if i want to simplify my style, but i love them very much and it makes my process so much quicker