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By this point I don't really know what to do. A friend of mine on Facebook suggested I use the (usual) lack of feedback my arts get as an incentive to draw more, but I've been having a hard time trying to enjoy doing art, unless it's something super-simple like that Butch headshot I doodled up.
Motivation for me is just very rare and I tend to take extremely long breaks from it because I genially enjoy chatting with friends, making up stories, and gaming moreso than doing art. Even when I have music going or watching a friend's art stream, I just can't pick up my mouse and work on one of my character profile arts in short because I don't find having to re-do the same bit of lineart over and over to get it right any fun. That's the larger reason why Chouko and Sharkane are still unfinished. Heck, I'm unsure and even doubting if streaming myself on Picarto or starting up a Patreon (which is in the planning stages!) would drive me to work more.
Also I should say I find writing to be a bit more entertaining to a certain extent
As you've probably guessed my personal RP group AozoraTheRoleplay has been a miserable failure since launch. Very likely since it doesn't have an established lore like what an RP group based on a manga/anime/established franchise would (along with lack of visual references for parts of it's world) sue to it's "anything goes" nature. Maybe someday activity will spark and suddenly I can form a new world with it's own selection of characters, plus get some mods to help run and moderate.
With that said, farewell.
Motivation for me is just very rare and I tend to take extremely long breaks from it because I genially enjoy chatting with friends, making up stories, and gaming moreso than doing art. Even when I have music going or watching a friend's art stream, I just can't pick up my mouse and work on one of my character profile arts in short because I don't find having to re-do the same bit of lineart over and over to get it right any fun. That's the larger reason why Chouko and Sharkane are still unfinished. Heck, I'm unsure and even doubting if streaming myself on Picarto or starting up a Patreon (which is in the planning stages!) would drive me to work more.
Also I should say I find writing to be a bit more entertaining to a certain extent
As you've probably guessed my personal RP group AozoraTheRoleplay has been a miserable failure since launch. Very likely since it doesn't have an established lore like what an RP group based on a manga/anime/established franchise would (along with lack of visual references for parts of it's world) sue to it's "anything goes" nature. Maybe someday activity will spark and suddenly I can form a new world with it's own selection of characters, plus get some mods to help run and moderate.
With that said, farewell.
SJB: Twelve Years Later
Boy, time does fly when you go on hiatus from art, huh? Anyways hello people of DeviantART. I wouldn't have ever imagined myself in this position but here we are. I've been using this site since 2009 and two site re-designs later many of my friends and artists that I've supported from the first few years of being on this site have either vanished into radio silence, relocated to other sites, or moved onto other, better things (or so I hope). It's honestly saddening seeing this place as a shell of its former self because the site's higher ups don't believe in "If it ain't broke, don't fix it", or because they lost interest in making art. And I'll admit I'm one of those people. While there were some years where I was more generally active (Pre-2013, 2014, and 2017), other years were either posts of minor projects or WIP's and nothing really substantial. I think the whole trying to build internet cred through DeviantArt and having most of your motivation fueled by said cred, along with
Developing More Characters
Hey there. Since I got the thought of getting more characters from my endless selection of ideas developed I decided to update the character design inspiration document some more: Yup, I had to give this a bit of an overhaul since an attempt to reach out onto Twitter in the form of a tweet ended up going completely south when it attracted what felt like the wrong audience for the job. Thus I added some more details to make it more clear on what kind of content I'm looking for in character designs, art style and all. Hopefully it doesn't come off as too mean-spirited, I don't mean to brush aside so many artists but for new designs made from scratch using provided references I'd rather them closely replicate sort of what I can make, give or take a few.
A year later
Well it's 2021 and I'm still away from this site doing other things for the most part. You may recall if you've been to some of my other sites including my blog that I had a major hard drive failure on my Mac in September 2020. It completely wiped all my WIP's and it took me six months to get a replacement computer as well as a few more months to get some of the programs I commonly used. Currently the priority still lies in my Sonic Robo Blast 2 Kart racers and many of them have a long ways to go so I don't feel "ready" to go back to doing standard art just yet, and even then the pandemic has been a huge de-motivator. That said I still want to start on something later in the year and my mind has been tossed between two different groups of characters since I never did any modern art of anyone in either group. There's also a few other characters I've had on the mind and wouldn't mind drawing "just for fun" even if they don't lack the highly detailed and fleshed out backstories or
Time to try and boost that roster count.
Yeah it's that time of the year again. Got some cash on hand, going to see if anyone on the internet is interested in working with me and my ideas.
https://forum.deviantart.com/jobs/offers/2555859/
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I would suggest to try drawing all sorts of characters and different styles. Don't think it too much, and draw even if it doesn't look good at first. You can always make another picture. 
and you can also try fan art of your favorite characters beside your OC's
I don't know how far you went on my patreon Post, but I used to share my drawing process the first couple of months, I just stopped because there were not enough artist supporting make it worthwhile.
I also made a small video, that can give you ideas on how to make simple and easy to draw characters.
www.patreon.com/posts/3575431
Let me know if you would be interested in hearing tips of suggestions in tutorial format, I've always wanted to try, but I'm not sure how many people would find it useful
and you can also try fan art of your favorite characters beside your OC'sI don't know how far you went on my patreon Post, but I used to share my drawing process the first couple of months, I just stopped because there were not enough artist supporting make it worthwhile.
I also made a small video, that can give you ideas on how to make simple and easy to draw characters.
www.patreon.com/posts/3575431
Let me know if you would be interested in hearing tips of suggestions in tutorial format, I've always wanted to try, but I'm not sure how many people would find it useful