Not only is the the obligatory "My First Post," post, this is also a mixture of melancholy and wistful new beginnings.
It's hard to place my actual feelings when it comes to the death of Twitter. And yeah, that shit's in the morgue with a toe tag I called it way early. I know everyone is sick to death, especially within the last year, hearing about that website. I get it, I really do. But it was also an insanely easy way to go through new artists and then see people's shit. No need to tag anything, which made it incredibly lazy to just post and leave and then play the slots. The slots were addicting.
I'm not saying tagging is bad, don't get me wrong, I want to discover shit through tags I enjoy. The real pain in the ass with a new website or revisiting one after not using it for so long is the actual culture of discoverability is something I have to discover, funnily enough. Same shit with Tumblr, this website, etc etc. The real answer is to just carve your own path and hope to god someone finds you eventually if your entire goal is just to be scene. Thankfully my goal is just to get shit out there because I like it because I like my art and I love drawing.
The art I do is pretty much for me first when it comes to most of my free drawings. A lot of art I do for subscription services is a treat to those who pay me money, and it's not what I pour the most of my soul into. It's like the difference between a test and actually having your hands out to craft. Paid content, fan art, that's a test. How well do I draw, how well can I take apart something someone else designed, make it my own and have it be recognizable. Yeah it's all fetish art, you can boil it down to that and say offs to ya, but to those who genuinely don't give a shit, no matter what you're making it's going to be either a test, or your craft. I love doing art, that's all that matters to me, test or craft.
Why Newgrounds? That's a question I asked myself, not something that people proposed to me. I've been told that this site can get "toxic," or vile when it comes to the way people interact with others. Another response to that was "It's so easy to tell people to fuck off and they do," which made me laugh and just bite the bullet. I don't expect a warm welcome, especially since I'm treating this site like a safe haven from a nuclear bomb rather than coming here with open arms. That sort of invasion due to circumstance never is something people are happy to see in most cultures and most circumstances even in the real world.
I just hope people see what I do and know that I care about what I make, and that I don't really care too much about what others think. I do art people categorize as fetish art and I'm okay with that if it allows me the freedom of exaggeration, sexuality and expression. Even if my art is very sexual in nature, the intent behind it is such as well, I just don't care what people think as long as I'm free to enjoy my creations. Thank you everyone. Enjoy my art or not, thank you for having me here.
Sure a lot of this will probably read as rambling but, stream of conscious and that nature is a very free expression of speech and thank you for allowing me to do that. Cya around!