Because Tumblr on phone/tablet is such an awful experience when you try to pinpoint what you posted and when - I have to officially make this:
Requests are CLOSED
I have no idea if I already said it.
The reason?
Would you believe me that, right after I said they were open about 2 years ago, one worse thing after another followed when it comes to my health, and I ended up both being with no time, energy or physical possibility to do art regularly.
It killed me on a lot of additional levels, and I honestly thought I might be done as an artist.
I already lost the motivation and inspiration for drawing in 2021 (who follows me knows why) and then I realized, while I was pushing myself to do it whenever I could muster a fraction of desire, that I wasn't feeling any joy when I make art.
Thankfully, some things drastically changed just a few weeks ago, but I still don't know where I'm at as an artist, or where I'm at at all in life.
My health is improving but... Getting retired this early is crazy man. There's so much stuff you need to figure out, and you only have so much help (especially when you're so sick you can't even find the time and energy to get to a therapist and don't even have a specialist for your case to begin with).
I don't know if I'll ever get back to art the way I was before. Maybe y'all saw my golden age before everything got shut down permanently.
I can only hope it's just the constant stress I've been going through (that kept getting worse over the years) that got to me and that I'll come back fully one day.
I don't feel like I'm done right now.
And then there's the whole thing of figuring out how to treat your art now that you're retired for life (before, I was striving for a career), as well as the whole mess the industry is with hand-drawn animation, which is my main fuel.
There's a lot of stuff that influenced me. I'm just going down a current of a stream right now, but at least I know I'm not alone.
In any case...
Big apologies to the people that did send some requests in!
I have not forgotten any of you. However, at this point, I really am not able to make art for anyone. Myself included most of the time too.
If anyone can... Wish me luck and send in some prayers, because I need them very much.
