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Oh won't you come baaack~ We miss you

Oh, this was cute, thank you. I haven’t been doing anything to post, but I really appreciated this message.

I’m sure I’m not the only one that has been finding all the stress and anxiety difficult through this whole pandemic but social media feels tough for me to keep in touch with right now.

I’ve been concentrating on getting healthy again after long, reoccurring but thankfully mild covid and trying to take care of my mental health too. Things are good, especially after going vegan (as a vegan, I can’t not mention being a vegan, it’s in the rules ha), but I’m focusing on my offline life and trying to enjoy and be grateful for the little things.

I hope you are all keeping as well as you can be and doing what you need to keep going through this and keep yourselves sane and safe. If anyone wants to talk at all, feel free to message here or twitter :)

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Oh! Can I request a Kaku? Thank you!

KAAAKKUUUU!!

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Glad to see you posting again, I thought you were one of those art blogs that went inactive. I followed you recently

Thank you anon :) I sort of was though I guess.

TBH peeps due to a few things, I have actually not been painting much at all in the past year or so. One reason being currently v busy, but also due to dealing with the fallout of agent problems and an art career I decided I needed to step back from.I feel like people don’t often feel able to talk openly about the art world struggle. If I’d heard more people saying it was ok to decide you needed to quit doing your thing professionally I might not have struggled so long with a lot of feelings of guilt or failure over shelving it. It is a difficult realisation if your “dream” career didn’t turn out to be the “dream” for you after all, but it’s ok to admit it. Looking after yourself is much more important than making it work if you’re not coping or you’ve lost touch with the joy of it. I remember there being a helpful tumblr post I read at one point about it being ‘enough’ just to do your thing as a hobby which I found incredibly liberating, but I have no idea how to go about finding it (I’d link it if I could though). But I’m in a good place right now and reconnecting gradually to art for my own personal enjoyment. I feel rusty, but it’s starting to honestly feel good again and I’m enjoying getting back to this blog :) I’m probably oversharing here, but the fact that I feel I can share this is a real step forwards and very healing. And thought I’d post this here in case it might reach someone that it might be of some benefit to.

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Sorry I didn't read your note about only doing water 7 right D: Tom would also be sweet!

I LOVE TOM!! (thank you for the req) I couldn’t draw him without his kids though, so here you go :)

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GIVE ME PAULIE

YOU KNOW HOW TO GET ME TO ANSWER AN ASK MY FRIEND :)) (Thank you for requesting himmmmmm)

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Franky (or Tom's Workers/or Water Seven) week/zine/event anyone?

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I’D BE SOOOOO INNNNNNNN

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PRINTS?

Hi there all you lovely followers! I know I am currently horribly inactive here, but wow my notes haven’t been! There’s been a few of you asking for some time about buying prints from me and (sorry!) I have never actually got round to getting anything done about that. BUT.. I am thinking of getting a batch of prints made up and I’m keen to know before I go ahead what the interest for this would be? I paint on a pretty small scale, and like to keep my prints small too, so these would be postcard-ish A6 or A5 sized pieces. Already had interest in Water 7 pieces (I definitely want to selfishly keep some Water 7 pieces to treasure myself too so there will definitely be W7) but if anyone also wants to shout out pieces/particular characters they’d buy stuff of then get in touch cause this is your chance to get the goods! It’s likely not everything will, but stuff with the most interest will likely make the cut. (Wondering as well as a side note whether anyone would be interested in my Sanji & Zeff comic as a zine? Just another thing to throw out to you there…) I will work out more details on costs (might have a set price per piece and maybe some packs on a deal or something idk) and how to go about buying these later, but for now, just yell over at me and see if I can get the ball rolling with this :)

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Just to clarify, you can also ask for pieces that aren’t Water 7 as prints, I feel like the original post might not have been clear enough! Here’s a general idea of some ones that I’m thinking of going to print with, but let me know if there’s interest in pieces other than these :) THANKS!

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PRINTS?

Hi there all you lovely followers! I know I am currently horribly inactive here, but wow my notes haven’t been! There’s been a few of you asking for some time about buying prints from me and (sorry!) I have never actually got round to getting anything done about that. BUT.. I am thinking of getting a batch of prints made up and I’m keen to know before I go ahead what the interest for this would be? I paint on a pretty small scale, and like to keep my prints small too, so these would be postcard-ish A6 or A5 sized pieces. Already had interest in Water 7 pieces (I definitely want to selfishly keep some Water 7 pieces to treasure myself too so there will definitely be W7) but if anyone also wants to shout out pieces/particular characters they’d buy stuff of then get in touch cause this is your chance to get the goods! It’s likely not everything will, but stuff with the most interest will likely make the cut. (Wondering as well as a side note whether anyone would be interested in my Sanji & Zeff comic as a zine? Just another thing to throw out to you there...) I will work out more details on costs (might have a set price per piece and maybe some packs on a deal or something idk) and how to go about buying these later, but for now, just yell over at me and see if I can get the ball rolling with this :)

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