NexeL-Arts
My Lazy/Insane life right now
So, I bet everyone who watches me is wondering any one or all of these things:
Why isn't this guy uploading anything?
Why should I watch him if he doesn't?
Will he upload anything soon?
Where's Pokemon: Fire and Aura (if you're reading it)?
Why isn't he doing AshxSerena art as often?
Here are my answers to most of these questions in no particular order.
For one, I work as a t-shirt screen printing guy at a local business. We somewhat recently lost a chunk of our workforce due to them finding new jobs or just plain quitting with no 2-week notice. We lost them right as we were getting to our busiest time of year, late summer to early fall, due to local school districts and universities ordering large quantities of shirts and other clothing items at once for sports teams and clubs. Most of the orders are being rushed out as fast as we can, however with a smaller team it's a LOT tougher. Fortunately for me, my team has been gathering new hires and showing them the ropes as we go, greatly taking pressure off of me. However there's a catch there, I still have to go to work at 7am, and go until 6pm five days a week. I've been working at that place for 4 years, and I can't bring myself to leave them hanging.
As for my art, it hasn't slowed down at all. In fact, my brain is constantly bursting with new ideas for stuff. I'm writing them down in my physical sketchbook as they come to me. The situation is tricky. I'm working 7-6 five days a week, and most of those days I'm EXHAUSTED. My backlog of personal projects is constantly expanding, and coupled with my insane work schedule I'm mentally and physically overwhelmed. Lots of the time, my brain is traveling at a million miles a second and my thoughts can't keep up. It's hard to explain, but basically I think of something cool or remember something I wanted to keep track of, and it just leaves my brain and gets lost in the ether. I either can't recall it or crops up far later. Another thing is I recently became official with my first girlfriend. Now that I have her I'm most likely going to spend some time with her.
If any of you feel like I've abandoned my platform here, I haven't. I just put it on the back burner for now. My job, my girlfriend, and my other irl friends and family take precedence. I RELIGIOUSLY look at my messages and feedback. I haven't uploaded much here for a while because of how busy my life has suddenly become. And a lot of the time, after I get off work at 6pm, I just want to turn the brain off and veg out in front of youtube or netflix and chill from the long days. The best bets for me uploading anything will most likely be on the weekends, as they have the most time for me to do anything art related. And at this point, even that's tenuous.
Pokemon: Fire and Aura isn't dead, by any means. It's just been put on the back burner like I mentioned above. I'll get to writing some more when I have the time. I hate putting everything about my online life off, but like I said before, my irl relationship with both my girlfriend and family/friends are coming first every time.
AshxSerena art is coming! Those two are my OTP. I have plenty of ideas regarding them. Again, like I mentioned two paragraphs ago, my working life needs to overdose on chill pills before I can take a sit down at my screen tablet and go. Also, I've been re-watching My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic on netflix lately, (it still holds up big time) and rediscovering my love for it and creating things around it.
And as a bonus answer, my pokemon art in general will continue. I'm an admin for the Poke-Fanclub group. I have also let the other admins know of my situation.
I only ask those who will read this to please stay patient. It's hard when an artist you like seems to just disappear or stop doing things in general. Everyone has their reasons, but in my case it's things I just can't control. I'll keep trying to trickle things out as they come, but for now, my life here has been TEMPORARILY put to the side for things that matter the most to me. I hope y'all understand.
New Year, New Me, New Everything!
This is also your chance to get a commission from me. Just look in my journal history for my most recent commission page. Drop me a note if you want to discuss getting one!
See you in the new year!
New Commissions Page!
Self Evaluation
Just wanna be honest about things here. I'm not very active here. That's really the whole story, but there's a lot more elements to it. I have a lot of things I want to do, a lot of art I want to make, but my laziness is a chronic condition. I have a bit of a problem with it, and I need to kick that habit. I need to get back to my glory days here on DA. And possibly share more things on Twitter as well. I don't have much there either, only a few random and completely unrelated tweets intermixed with maybe a few art pieces. I feel like I could be getting a lot better of an audience on Twitter too, because more people use that than this site by a large margin.
If I want to make my art a career, I have a lot more work to do. I have the talent, my art's evolution over my six years here should be more than enough evidence of that. So in order to accomplish that work, I need more of it. If any of you watching me get this journal and somehow get to this point in my rambling, don't be afraid to ask me about my commissions or trades. I've had them open for the longest time, but little to no bites. If I need to do something to make them more appealing to more audiences, let me know of some ideas.
I want to change how active I am here, but I don't know where to start. Sometimes my creative well is filled to the brim with ideas and when I get to starting them, I just stop, like a car that broke down on the road. If I had more work commissioned of me, I'd get my creative mojo back and manage to keep it. So, I need your guys' help. Let me know of some things I can do to kick my laziness habit.
Christmas 2018
There's way more about this holiday than gifts and cheer. This holiday is about bringing people together. I'm gonna use the example of the Christmas Truce of 1914. You might have heard of that one. That night, a Christmas Eve during one of the bloodiest wars in human history [WWI], the forces of Britain, Germany, and France came out of the trenches to exchange gifts, talk, and celebrate the holiday they all shared. They all sung Christmas hymns from the Christian hymnal, they played makeshift soccer/football, they even made friends with one another. That Christmas Day brought the most bitter of enemies together and temporarily stopped a war.
Christmas has that kind of power and more. The best part? It's the easiest thing to achieve. All you have to do to experience the true spirit of the holiday is to reach out to someone else. Be a friend to someone that needs it. As I said before, this holiday is about being together with friends and loved ones, regardless of their views and beliefs. At the center of it is the root word of Christmas itself. I'll leave it to you to figure that one out.
This holiday is a special one, a day that isn't just for kids to get excited for. It's a day to be a light to someone's darkness. This is meant to be a cozy, family oriented day of love and giving. So if you want to experience good feelings, give of yourself. In return you'll receive a feeling like no other. The very same feeling that opposing forces in WWI had.
Have yourself a merry little Christmas guys!!