I’m changing my art name. After a long period of thought, I have decided to change my art alias/name and figured I should share that here as I know my art is still shared from time to time on tumblr.
So yes, onto why I’m changing it! I started freelancing in 2012 and did so under the pseudonym Flesh-Odium, which was a name that I already had established years and years earlier when I first joined DeviantArt at the age of 15.
At that age I really had no idea what I was doing, or what my style would evolve into, or what a name really meant in the art world. But it wasn't very long after deciding to reenter the online art community in my 20s, that I quickly learned. My name didn't represent me and hadn't for many years. I created it at an extremely dark and horrible time for myself as a teen. Back when I thought horror content was at the core of who I was, and being edgy was somehow cool. But, thankfully, so much growth can happen in 17 years, and I want to embrace that growth, leave the past behind, truly just be me and let my art speak for itself rather than some cryptic online name that no longer serves or represents me.
I will admit this took so long due to fear of it affecting my traffic and the following I have built, I always stressed over the change making my old watermarks obsolete. Clearly it was a crutch. As they say no risk, no reward. and I feel like now is the perfect time to take a leap towards the unknown with a more positive vibe.
I'm sure you lovely people support this decision, but if I could ask one favour, that would be to retweet this to help get the word out, or better yet let anyone who may ask/want/like to know me what my new alias is. 💖
Love to you all. Esp my OGs
Also bear with me while I try and figure the colour theme I want to go with and slowly switch all of my socials over. PS: For anyone still watching my tumblr. I’ve been active on twitter since leaving tumblr, so feel free to join me there - https://twitter.com/WillowBell_art