Damn man... feels like not too long ago I was 17 and just truly discovering the internet and all the online art sites. Me and my art alike have gone through so many changes over the years. I remember when i was so much younger, all i cared about was popularity. I tried making friends with popular artist (like the pure blue hedgehog girl in the slutty red outfit) for all the wrong reasons. i remember being jealous of peoples popularity and always beating myself up over it. I was rude to people, i was self centered all the time. Nowadays i don't care about popularity anymore, in fact id even go as far to say i'm kinda glad i'm not super popular. Being popular sucks... seriously at times you just attract the wrong kinds of people. People who will stalk you and only want to hang around you for free art. Or worse they might steal a character or try to "expose" your secrets on the internet. everything you do in general is judged a lot more closely and more harshly. I've seen so many artists on this site alone pick each other apart.

I mean don't get me wrong i do like attention, I love it when you guys tell me how interested you are in my characters because that means I'm doing something right, it makes me feel like all the years of practicing wasn't all for for nothing. seriously i love every comment, i favor your thoughts more than a silly page view or numbers. .....no i don't think it feeds my ego. i don't think...

Anyway i never thought in a million years I'd even get close to where i am currently with my art. i remember thinking my old crappy sonic comics were good when i showed them off in high school. but as soon as i found deviant art... holy shit was i discouraged... not only was i no longer the only kid in the world with sonic fan characters but they looked almost official.

this was going to be a hell of a lot longer, a large timeline about my experience online but i really didn't want to bore everyone. so ill wrap it up.

Basically i wanna keep moving forward. i want to keep improving and make a name for myself. I've been dabbling with the idea of making a patreon at some point but i dunno how any of you would react to that. i have no idea what rewards i can create but maybe with suggestions i could get something together. i never want to stop drawing, its the only thing in my life i feel thats truly bliss to me in a world with jobs being harder to obtain. i wanna create cool and interesting characters like Narcanna and Arcaya some more and try and break from your average furrys.

May the next 25 years be a interesting venture with you all along for the ride. I thank each and everyone of you who helped me keep moving forwards despite all the times of me wanting to give up. it is all of you who help me become what i am now.