), I actually had time to relax and slowly got into drawing again. Currently working on myself and trying harder to make stuff that makes me happy.Honestly don't remember if I ever really announced it BUT I'm back!
It's been long enough and with all the stuff that's been going on within the last few weeks, it was only a matter of time before I came back!
I do feel like I need to properly explain myself since I've been kinda dead on here the last few months and (arguably) years.
If you don't want to read it, just avoid what's in between these bullets.
Simplest way to put: I was burnt out, tired and stressed. I feel like it all started when I got into my accident two years ago. Obviously I'm fine, but the financial toll of fixing my car is what pushed me into this abyss of stress. In order to make more money I needed to work more so I was putting in more hours at work leaving little time for stuff I wanted to do. Eventually, I paid for repairs but things got even more chaotic once I transferred to another school to finish my degree.
Tuition payments were higher at my new school and I still had other things to pay for on top of that (supplies, mandatory trips with no provided transportation, etc.) So that meant that on top of working a bunch, I now had school work to do which consisted mainly of me drawing stuff I didn't want to. Unfortunately, I had to sacrifice drawing / working on my own projects because of all this other important stuff. I thought things would get better but they honestly didn't start to improve until Fall 2019. Scholarships and financial aid cover school which means I didn't have to work as much as I used to, but the biggest problems still stuck around: school and schoolwork.
I was still doing stuff for school and as the semesters went on projects got more complicated which meant I was working on them longer. So to give you an idea my weekly schedule was this: classes (min. 4 hours each; 2 nights and 1 whole day), driving ( 2 hours, both ways) and work (min. 5 hours at night) on days I didn't have class at night. Throw schoolwork into the mix and you can imagine the amount of stress I was under and understand my lack of energy/willingness to sit in front of a laptop longer than I had to.
Had a moment in Fall that I still think is affecting me (kind of?) that made me realize that this stress is going to drive me crazy or even kill me if I don't change something. So this semester I changed my workload. Instead of a full-time student, I'm now part-time, and I'm lucky enough to have leftover money from previous scholarships to completely pay off this semester, leaving me more time to work on what I need to while also giving me some room to relax.
Next semester I should be going back to full-time but I'm hoping this 8-month long break strengthen my mental fortitude for all that.
So yeah. If you read all that, hopefully, you understand my situation. I didn't even go into full detail since I didn't talk about anything that happened outside of work and school that affected me, but this is getting long enough.
With the quarantine going on I haven't physically gone to class in weeks and the amount of work (school and job) has been cut drastically. This has given me more time to do what I love again: draw not for classes, but for me!
So what can you expect?
Well I've reworked certain character dynamics and designs. Most are still the same, but the biggest change is probably what I'm posting. I'm probably going to be posting more original stuff over on my other account (
) while using this one more for sonic art, commissions and fan art.I've also finished a few overdue commissions that I'll be submitting soon enough so hopefully once I've finished them all, you'll see more off my stuff.
See ya later and it feels good to be back!
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