dream-paw

Since the time of my last journal, its been a hard year. After losing a close friend to cancer and an emergency surgery, I kind of lost myself especially as an artist. I found it extremely difficult to get back into digital art. Any small amount of joy I once had for it was just gone, replaced instead by a horrible heaviness. I struggle with getting noticed. This is my second account on DA but Ive been a member here for years. And it just seems like its getting harder and harder to get noticed, especially with all the algorithms in place. Here, Twitter, Instagram, etc. They all have them. I dont want to do NSFW artwork. I dont really even like to do fanart. This doesnt exactly help my chances either. I feel like my digital illustrations feel flat and emotionless. I was becoming increasingly frustrated with it all. I decided to do some shadow work regarding it. And I discovered that like graphic design, I fell into digital art as well. I kept feeling like it was something I *had* to do