Haha right?! I don't wanna use a sick day on morning sniffles that go away by lunch it feels like overkill

Thank you Nick!

Thank you so much! Love that you noticed the gothic style elements

TY!

Thank you! Really glad with how the effect turned out

THANK YOU JENNA!! I was so scared about them TBH. didn't know if the greens and yellows would be ok on the finished drawing overall!

I also remember dA's first mistake was not giving us functionality. No club function, friend-locking art and journals, archaic as hell notes system...if they leaned into making the social aspect of their site better instead of giving us dA Muro at the time

I'm just sad that private communities like that are so hard to find versus a public forum in the past ):

omg...that's why I don't get my hopes up with new social media sites anymore unless they've shown steady success 😭 When the exodus to bsky and threads happened, I didn't make an account anywhere because I was watching to see if it was worth it in the end (I think bsky is despite some problems)

Too bad they threw that all away for less user functionality and NFTs and genAI!!

ooh I see! Is the comm mostly on discord then? It seems that is the place to go for any type of community these days which is kinda a blessing and a curse

oh yeah I can see that! Too bad I haven't been in a fandom for a while aha...well except for Monster Hunter 🤔

REALLY!? I'm not in the adopt space but doesn't that also require a level of roleplaying?

And what about resources? It was really easy to search up brushes, textures and tutorials on deviantart. Whereas now, I can't think of a single tutorial I've found useful in the past decade because of algorithm burying things

What are the young artists doing these days to meet fellow artist friends anyway?? I can't imagine making friends through tiktok or IG.

Back until the early 2010-s, we had oekaki boards, deviantart, livejournal, tumblr and forums for meeting new people.

Thank ya! 🙏🙏🙏😭

SORRY I SHOULDN'T PHRASE IT LIKE omg I wasted 2 days of work on this thing. but this is my third attempt at stained glass aesthetic and I set stuff up that if it didn't turn out well, I'd have to redo the lineart and I am scared