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Hi! You can call me Mariia or Hazel if you want!
I am on indefinite hiatus from commission work. I'll be relearning in the mean time.
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Featured Journal
The end, for now.
a month agoHey guys.
I'd like to reimagine this post years from now, when my mental health and passion for creating are both so strong that I'm writing about coming back to draw for you guys.
Today, unfortunately, isn't that day.
Ever since The PayPal Hit I've been doing my best to try and draw and think about why I began art in the first place. It just isn't happening. The only path forward I see is starting over with a fresh slate and relearning everything from the ground up. So... here's what that path looks like:
In order of commission placed, I'm going to be refunding everyone on my queue. Since my comms are divided by price, I'm going to be refunding the reference and sketch sheets first, because they cost the most. Once they're out of the way, I can probably refund 2 or 3 people a month. I only have a budget of about £150 a month that I can refund to people before it eats into my bills and groceries even more, so these refunds are going to be staggered for a long while. Short of winning the lottery or inheriting from a rich grandpa, this is the best I can do for now. Yeah, it's going to take a while. If you aren't really bothered about it, that's cool. Thank you for lightening the load, seriously.
After all refunds are out of the way, I'm going to then begin saving up for Marc Brunet's online art course. For those of you who aren't aware, Marc Brunet used to be a Senior Artist at Blizzard. He has an art school taught through Clip Studio & Photoshop that costs a few hundred bucks. If anyone decides they don't care too much about their smaller refunds, just know that this is the goal I'm working towards. I've seen the classes, and the snippets posted on YouTube. They're legit helpful, and a great place to relearn fundamentals and beyond. I genuinely think it can save my passion if I just have enough time and heart to dedicate to it, like I used to.
I so badly wanted to be superhuman and bounce back despite wave after wave pushing me back. I fought the very idea of going on hiatus for so long now. I'm just tired of struggling with the 'should I shouldn't I' internal dialogue. I'm just too tired.
I hope y'all can buy lots of cool new art once you get your refunds. There are so many amazing artists on this site still going strong after all these years. As someone taking an indefinite break, I really don't know how they keep going. Maybe I'll find out one day.
I will be contacting people around the 6/7th of every month to ask if they'd like a refund and what avenue we can use to do get the job done. Don't worry, I'm not forgetting anybody. My anxiety wouldn't dare allow it, lol. If you have access to Ko-Fi or Stripe, I've been using both to refund so far. If you don't have anything like that, I can also buy you Steam games if that's more up your alley, and we'll just find stuff that's equivalent price to what you spent on art.
My account isn't going anywhere. I'm still here, all the art will remain up, and you might see me favouriting new pieces every now and again.
For now, I'm going back to being an art admirer like you guys. Sitting in with the audience again isn't so bad. :)
Thank you for everything and then some. For now, I'm going to take a long needed rest.
- Maria
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