So I have recently come back to DA in hopes to start up my drawing again. It's been a long time since I have drawn and one of my main goals this year was to get my art work going again. I came back on this site, resorted all my galleries to make it look better and submitted a picture to get me going...only to find that DA is now apparently using AI on all of our images. This has also led me to find that a lot of people are leaving here, and quite honestly, I don't feel comfortable uploading any images anymore if it's only going to be used for some computer to steal. I'm not uploading anything else, which is a shame as I only just came back but I suppose I will have to look elsewhere to start my new art journey. I would love suggestions, as I don't want this to put a sour taste in my new hope for my art, so I'm open to hear if anyone knows another cool site to join. Thank you all for the support, I really appreciate it and I hope to see some of you someplace else.
Wow, it's been a while. A very long while....but here it goes... Hi everyone, including old friends and new followers, it's been a bit of a trek getting back on here but I did it. For months, if not years, I've been wanting to push myself to draw again, as it's a passion I've had since I was really small and it's such a huge shame for it to go to waste. I love drawing, I love art, but I've been struggling a hell of a lot with mental health for such a long time, depression has sucked all the motivation from me to the point I seem to have lost all of my creative spark. I want to bring it back, it's my goal this year to get my creative mind going again, and share with you the art I enjoyed making just like I used to. I've even redownloaded Photoshop (as I started using free apps when PS went to subscription only) but I'm hoping paying for it monthly will be another push for me to actually use it. Plus I love Photoshop, it's just so easy and enjoyable for me to use. To old friends, I'm so sorry for just abandoning this place, I've lost a whole lot of motivation to do anything, and my loss of art work really came from me feeling like I was just making it for other people and not for myself - turning it into a chore. It became too much for me I stopped altogether, along with my general lack of motivation, I never came back. I have missed you all, some friends in particular, and I hope I'm not too late to rekindle those friendships.
To new followers, hi! And thank you for following me and liking my work, and making me believe that even when I'm not on here for months, my art is still being noticed, and enjoyed enough to follow me and hope to see more from me. It's highly encouraging to see I haven't been forgotten about, and I really want to say I appreciate it from the bottom of my heart. So I'm going to try and be more active here, and hopefully get my pages set up to look cleaner, maybe archive a couple of them, and figure out the new DeviantArt (It's changed so much!) I also wanted to ask if anyone had any experience in bringing yourself back into the art world, because my fingers are itching to draw so much, yet I have no path to find WHAT to start on. I have so many things I want to try, but no idea where to start. Thank you again to everyone who has supported me, despite me not being here, it honestly brings so much joy, and helps me feel like coming back here isn't a waste of time.
I love you all, I hope to speak to you all soon!
So now I've been back for almost a week now, I wanted to update my page a little bit to get some new artworks in, but I was wondering what my watchers would like to see from me? Let me know your ideas :D.