I want to talk a little bit about taking care of yourself & burnout, as well as taking time off social media to heal / feel better about yourself as a person, and as an artist. And no, I refuse to call myself content creator because I'm an artist first.. except I don't draw atm. - ThreadSky

dragalialust.bsky.social • 22 days ago

I want to talk a little bit about taking care of yourself & burnout, as well as taking time off social media to heal / feel better about yourself as a person, and as an artist. And no, I refuse to call myself content creator because I'm an artist first.. except I don't draw atm.

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dragalialust.bsky.social•22 days ago

We all know what happened to blue bird, and the events following it. I'm honestly relieved and happy to be here, on this website - and while I love the networking and positivity, I also discovered for myself that just shutting things off COMPLETELY is... cleansing. It's healing in itself.

dragalialust.bsky.social•22 days ago

These past years, I've drawn a ton. Whether it was commission work (90%) or personal work (10%), I was always working "while at work" (aka my dayjob), or after work (aka in my free time, effectively preventing myself from ever taking "time off" for real for realsies). Art became work.

dragalialust.bsky.social•22 days ago

And while I made the conscious decision a decade ago to not pursue an art related dayjob - my hobby turned into what I feared would happen if I chose it as a dayjob: A chore. And I still feel it nag at me. I want to draw, but I don't want to draw.

dragalialust.bsky.social•22 days ago

Times are chaotic, there's a lot of turmoil politically and in the "real world", and I never wanted to let it seep into my online persona/work. But frankly, I'm scared. It's scary. Life out there? It's scary, and we as a species manage to make things a whole shit ton worse with each passing day.

dragalialust.bsky.social•22 days ago

Back then, I used art as an outlet. As something to unwind, to express myself, to "escape" into a world that seemed so much nicer. I still do that - but my focus shifted, as I grow older and work more, I have even less time for the things I really like.
And I learned that it's okay to step back.

dragalialust.bsky.social•22 days ago

Now does this mean I want to quit art forever? Fuck no! But it sort of faded out of my immediate perception, my immediate focus. I've suffered a severe injury last year and was knocked out for the past months especially, and I feel like I'm still recovering. I don't want to "grind". I want to heal.

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