salome-chan999

Good evening my fellow pals,

It has been a long time since my last „I‘m still alive“-Journal.

Maybe i will make this my signature move, vanishing for years and then letting my works rain on you like it‘s the flood of all times. Sounds fun.

But now before i ramble about what i accomplished in my abstinence:

HAPPY 2021! May the sun shine on your art (or not, depending on the Lightfastnes), may the rain water your gardens.

Please stay healthy and do what makes you happy. Love to all of you.

Okay. I will go through the years since 2018. First of all I outright thought the last time i posted on here was 2016 but actually it wasn‘t that long. Still it‘s been almost three years and A LOT happened. After sorting out some private stuff I finally caught up and very succesfully graduated from High School. After that i began a voluntary year in an adult education center. Despite being succesful and making good experiences these years were very exhausting for me and i didn‘t have the energy or time to cater to more than one social network and even on Instagram i posted rarely.

This changed a bit in 2020. I got blessed with an Ipad at christmas eve in 2019 and so i was motivated to eventually work on all my oc‘s and stories. At the same time i discovered the joy that was playing dnd So one thing lead to the other and there was I hyperfocussing a whole year on my dnd-self-insert-escapism. But in the mess that 2020 was who is there to blame me? In August then I discovered oilpainting. Overall, apart from all the other things, 2020 was actually a great year for my artistic development. I am now at a point where I actually like my art and can appreciate the quality of it. On that note I also want to establish a new habit: to write about the things i like of the pieces i post in their caption. This whole „my art isn‘t good enough“-mentality needs to be overthrown. I recommend trying this for yourself as well.

So, in the light of all this I decided to revisit Deviantart again. This website never really let me go, and I thought about wether to come back or not a lot.

Only to find the site abandoned by the very people that made it enjoyable. It was great here, back in 2012, when posting had a certain warm and innocent feeling to it. DeviantArt hadn’t the fastness of other social network sites and the dwelling on here after drawing until 2 am in the morning was a calming experience. But much changed since then and it looks like that DA tries to keep up with the pacing of Instagram, Twitter and all the others.

There so many new features to learn, feeling like you have to be a web manager/designer to some degree to catch up on all these unknown functions. It‘s quite overwhelming.

Yet, I want to try. The first few moments being here, „breathing“ the air of deviantart like standing in an art museum really brought back the sensation of how it was around 2012 here.

Also writing this entry is actually so much fun that it indeed inspires me to give DA a chance...

Sincerely, Salome