Okay so, my external hard drive that housed all my art work and the raw files straight up shat itself and died so I lost all my art work on there. *shrugs* tbh im kinda mad and not mad at the same time like... yah, all that hard work is gone, but a lot of it was sketches and unfinished work that i didnt much care for, v few of it was stuff i actually reuse often as backgrounds and such.
But its also a good thing cuz now I can start organizing things better as I make more drawings cuz I would end up losing the old works with in the masses of files I had and my naming was good enough that it was what the art depicted but a lot of times it wasn't exactly what I was looking for and I would find the picture I wanted buried in the file of another art work and it was just a mess.
It’s also nice cuz now that all of that is gone, all the muscle art is gone to, I feel like now I can just work on different genres, making more landscape, even picking up pixel art and pixel animation like I did once YEARS ago. Draw buff dudes with nice and functional outfits rather than trying to show off the muscles so much. Tbh I feel like that such a flaw with my art is that I make all these monsters but all I focus on is the muscle like, I can make strong characters with out having to sacrifice some of the design to show off the muscle. I’m def gonna rework some characters like Ice Monster and Desmond a lil bit and make them more interesting while still “muscular” in some sense.
If you followed me for the muscle drawings don’t worry, I’m still gonna draw a lot of buff dudes flexing and shit but like, I’m gonna try and do some other stuff more often too. I’m starting to get tired of drawing muscle all the time and I don’t wanna burn myself out of it cuz I really do like the aesthetic