drawing 2 me is a very social thing so im always trying to find some sort of active space for art but i think im just really bad at it. usually its for ppl trying to make money, a space for people not really looking for crit, or just focused around stuff i am not interested in LMAO
i also hate sending my art personally to people. i have never been able to get over it but i have an issue with seeing any worth in it (when i did comms i would do anything for 20$ and now i just do fanart which people usually view as low art) so ive kinda just did this to myself
I do think im some ways this apps feels way worse for me than twitter ever did. Im mostly here bc my mutuals are but im getting very little out of it and its very disappointing. It feels like i need to completely revamp what i do to fit in here
i relate w/ what you're saying here so much, i'm really struggling to figure out what to do with myself online lately because it's important to me for art to be something social but i can't really find a space that actually works for me 💀 especially getting into drawing fanart for multiple things
yeahh like i will still post art here but im not really feeling so much like i belong here. i think ppl abandoning twit caused many rifts with how ppl interact with socials and its not quite hostile but very different..im not gonna like Blame ppl who stopped posting alot but def its more lonely here
yeah, there's little activity and definitely less of an audience for a lot of different things on here... i had to stop using twt and i've started using tumblr again but it's not feeling great for art either for me, i find both tumblr and bsky kinda work best on a "post and close it" attitude :/
I like this app because there’s less drama, personally, but I miss the overall passion brought on by fandoms regarding whatever posted as that was a real motivator. I didn’t realize how much I needed that till recently.
Anyway I hope u find motivation and keep going!! I love your work a lot 💕
yeah! the quiet is nice sometimes but yeah haha a lot of passion feels missing i think its just because people are tired. also thank you so much!! im going to try and revamp how i do some sketching to see if that helps me! (ur work is awesome too!)
yeah unfortunately, I just will say quitting twit & moving here, I just realized being off socmed is just way nicer for me & probably a lot of people felt similar idk. Also just, the way everything is, I don't really want to scroll & see news, it can be sad in a way but I just talk to people on disc
i'm fine with this as i'm closer to 40 than 30 so like, i just feel too old to be on socmed all the time anyway now, but i feel so bad for your average 20 y/o now because i had such a fun time on the internet at that age and all the spaces out there now feel, very bad
oh yeah i totally get that..honestly if i had the space to not be on the internet all the time i would but (at risk of sounding like a near 30 y/o loser ig) the place i live in is pretty insulated+closed off in a bad way so the internet is kinda my only shot of talking to ppl with similar interests
I have far less free time compared to the period i was active on twitter so it doesn't get to me yet but here it's less "what the community is doing rn" and more "what are my friends/moots up to" kinda site
So since that's all that matters since i have little free time i do good
Yeah i get that totally! It felt like the more active base of twitter had a price. I get real nervous talking to people on discord sometimes haha. Socials always felt lower stakes to me so i feel less pressure about communicating thru it
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Anyway I hope u find motivation and keep going!! I love your work a lot 💕
So since that's all that matters since i have little free time i do good
It does really good for my mental health tbh with all the harassment problems i had ....
I spend less time on socmed and if i need a sense of community i'll just get back onto discord
(I hope i understood what you initially meant omg)