It's been awhile since I've posted (maybe even a year) and it wasn't on purpose. I was easily discouraged by the lack of interest, especially since I never really got a grasp on how to use the tags on this site. I'm still discouraged by social media, if I'm being honest, but today I had the urge to blog about my art rather than just post a thing with a short caption and hope someone would care. So, I came back.
My discouragement doesn't stem entirely from one source. This image features some, but not all of the headpieces and looks I created in 2022. I'm proud of the growth and variety. 2022 had felt full of stagnation and failure, and this is proof that this feeling wasn't true.
Still, sometimes I create and the lack of response feels like judgement. Friends and acquaintances are rarely your audience, but nowadays social media makes it hard to find the right people without paying. I'm not selling anything. I just want to share, and potentially collaborate one day. I want to learn and I want friends who are excited to learn and teach rather than gatekeeping technique for fear of losing customers. If one day I'm able to sell customs or rent crowns out, that would be great, but legally I can't do that anyway and the commodification of art shouldn't be my only reason to share anyway.
But people don't often interact on other sites, maybe I suppose because they can't get anything from me? Or maybe I'm just not "good enough" to respond to. Maybe I'm a threat to their business. I don't know, because they don't respond, and it's lonely out there when people in your niche don't want to talk to you.
So much of what I see on other sites is a series of advertisements and competition. I just want to share what I make, and maybe make stuff with others. I hope I can do that here, and not feel like I'm speaking into the void.
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