I'm hesitant to post art on the internet atm because I simply just don't trust it. Also I don't really feel a need to anymore. When I have more finished projects I'll upload things but I don't feel the need to excessively scrounge around and share doodles at the moment. You either like my work or you don't. You're either following me or you're not. You're keeping up with my vision, or you're elsewhere.
I think a lot of modern internet art culture is beneath me (because it's beneath all of us). Popularity >>> Skill/Quality/Sincerity over everything. Many of the most popular internet artists are simply the luckiest. I don't take it personally. However, I do think anybody who says contrary to this is either 1) intentionally malicious and lying 2) extremely stupid and refusing to think 3) genuinely naive and yet to learn.
My current job is not something I want to do for a long time, but it keeps me fed. I haven't stopped following my dreams or aspirations, but they're not at the forefront of my life the way I had once hoped they'd be. I don't see that as a personal failing, it's just the way the world works. I'm not terminally online enough anymore to care about basically anything that people who only develop culture around their time on the internet do. The real world is like, vast and complex. It's not that we can't solve every problem that we come across, it's that nobody wants to listen to the people with answers. After a certain point, that is entirely on them, how anything goes.
If you're following me for my art, thank you. I appreciate it.
You should like, consider following me on bsky or instagram. I'm about just as active over there as I am here, but if I get the time and energy to finish more projects for myself then maybe I'll post them there, who knows.
I don't care about fandom stuff most of the time. I think there's something uniquely wrong with people who hyper fixate on fandom things. It's cool to like what you like, but I feel like many genuine original, non-derivative artists (like myself) get snubbed a lot in favor of a malicious dopamine machine. And like I said earlier, like, that's a choice we as a collective continue to keep making and perpetuating. I can't take it personally, unless I personally know you, and have been personally effected by your inability to digest non-derivative creativity.
'Nother rant for the books lads. Have a nice day. Maybe I'll see you around.
I don't hate derivative work, I just don't personally want to make it. I think having to make it to get any sort of traction is kind of a scam.
