Hey, so I just kinda disappeared out

of nowhere with only a vague comment

about going on a hiatus but never making

any "official announcement" about it.

So here I am, just tryna get y'all up to

speed with what's been going through

my life. Nothin' much, but still quite a

lot, so when I make a comeback to all

art places, I'm gonna have to do some

heavy rework of all my social media to

make sure everything's up to date, since

many things are very outdated.

So first off, the reason why I went on

this hiatus was because of the heavy

burnout and a lot of pressure that I was

putting on myself, on top of being very

emotionally unstable due to gruesome

things happening in my life (cutting ties

with "friends" that manipulated me, feeling

awful about myself, my art, and everything

I do, added to having an overall bad luck

strike for some months, where it seemed

like I could not do a single thing right

without messing up five in the process),

so I was forcing myself to draw to exhaustion

just to keep doing something, so I wouldn't

have an anxiety attack. But I just couldn't

keep on doing that, which is why I decided

to stop producing art for most of this year.

The emphasis is on the word "producing".

I'm still making and creating new art, but

putting less and less effort into it, and just

drawing anything I felt like at the moment,

mostly just pencil sketches that I posted

on my Twitter, Facebook, and Tumblr, and

refraining from creating digital art.

It's worked wonders on my psyche, and

with every week that went by, I began to

"fall in love" again with drawing. I still do

not plan to return to making art "seriously",

but when I do, I definitely will change the

way I produce art, so I can still find the

art process enjoyable without putting too

much "unnecesarily pointless" effort into

it. Some of the sketches I made got a lot

of likes and attention, easily putting the

rest of my artworks to shame! So yeah,

there's that.

The second reason is that since I am a

person who just-so happens to be and

live in Venezuela, my Paypal account

got terminated when I received a very

much needed donation, and now I cannot

accept support from anyone until I can

find a suitable replacement to use that

is not Paypal. This means that I am no

longer taking commissions(not that I

ever got any commissions to begin with),

and my Ko-Fi account has donations

turned off, essentially locking away

all the exclusive content that was

uploaded there. Then I watched that

Duchess Celestia video where she

talked about Ko-Fi's lack of security

and how she lost a lot of money, so

it's safe to say that I will quit using

Ko-Fi altogether. I'm planning to

migrate all my content to Patreon so

my content is still available for, idk,

some lost wandering soul that sends

me money probably by mistake, but

till then, all of my more recent artworks

are banished to the Shadow Realm.

The third reason is that my ol' dinosaur

PC is finally gonna get upgraded to 64

bits, so I had to do the tiresome task of

making backups of everything I had on

it, using only one 23 GB USB drive.

Because of that, I couldn't make any

digital art even if I wanted to, because

I do not have the program to do it, so

yeah, if anything, I'd call that a win.

That said, once my PC is fully functional

again, THAT is when I will be able to

produce digital art normally again, so

my hiatus will go on a little longer after

I feel fully "recovered".

That, in a nutshell, is why I went on this

massive hiatus, and let me tell ya, hiatuses

are underrated! I know y'all who live off of

art have your brains consumed by hustle

culture and wouldn't take a break even if

your working hand fell off your arm, but as

someone who never had art as a career

option, taking this time off was the best

thing I could ever do. I feel rejuvenated!

I'm starting to enjoy things again! I'm happier!

I'm exploring new things and rediscovering

things that I'd forgotten about or left behind!

I am much better now!

So yeah what I'm trying to say, is that

this perception of taking a break as

something bad that has to be avoided,

and more like a positive thing, seriously!

People gotta stop focusing on those silly

Twitter numbers and start focusing more

on their health and well-being!

"Yeah but it's not that simple, some of us

need to make art for a living", brother,

I am not looking for a debate, please do

not try to reply with this, because I will

ignore you. I am in the right, and so are

you. Let's just agree to disagree, and

move on with our lives, okay?

And that would be it! Just dropping by

to let y'all know that I'm still breathing,

that I haven't given up on Newgrounds,

and that hopefully soon I will return with

more art and better than ever!

As my favorite FNaF character would say,

I always come back. ;)

Be seein' ya!