My VGen is now live!

I'm offering a variety of services such as acrylic charm commissions, chibi commissions, and full colour headshot/bust-up/half body commissions!

Reblogs are greatly appreciated!

ya'll should read Starfall on AO3 for real - it's one of the best Octopath fanfics I've read and I daresay, one of the best fanfics I've read in general and I get so fucking excited when it updates

The author is @iamsweden, who I just noticed started following me and I just want to give you a little heeeeeeeeeey you're stuff is amazing!!

This is the face I make when there's an update:

Oh my god thank you so much!!!! I really love your art!!!!!

Thank you very much!!! Most of my OT2 charms are sold out and won't be back in stock until after an event in May, but I still have plenty of my OT1/OT2 crossover keychains still available!!

The latest chapter of Starfall almost made me cry like FINALLY, give Cyrus the group hug he deserves!!!!!!

I want to add my own two cents to the whole "artists telling smaller artists to not get too hung up on numbers" because I'm so used to twitter and forget that you can use tags to 'reply' to stuff

But it's something I absolutely agree with and it something that I didn't really come to terms with until around 2018, where I started to feel the most confident about my art that I've never really experienced. It was such a huge growth for me and ever since I started making and selling merch, tableing at cons, my relationship towards metrics began to shift because we're often sold this idea that you need to have a big following to make money on your art.

But I'm 200 sales away from hitting 2k sales on Etsy, I've been tableing more and I'm branching out to other events - for me as an artist, I learned that having a big following was never the end goal, because I was achieving what I've been working towards without needing to be an account with a big follower count. There's definitely an advantage to having more eyes on you when it comes to fulfilling commissions and possibly getting those bigger opportunities, but meeting supporters of your work in-person, it really drove home that behind every number, every follower, is a passionate individual who took time out of their day to tell you they love your work.

And those are the people I want to keep creating for because I don't want to take that support for granted.

Just adding one more thing but I can understand the perspective of an artist with a more modest following, feeling a bit insulted when artists with big followings tell them that metrics aren't everything, because it can come off as a bit dismissive and even a bit ignorant/arrogant. But unfortunately with social media, there's a lot of luck involved in that you don't know which art piece is going to land on people's radar, not to mention you're also 'technically' competing against a bunch of other artists who want to be seen as well. And it's for that very reason that you shouldn't tie all your worth and confidence as an artist to flawed algorithms because you're just going to be miserable.

Small artists you need to understand that when you see an artist who you think has 'made it' tells you not to worry about the numbers and to not fret about getting more likes than reblogs they are not telling you it because they think you are stupid for caring or because they dont need to network to survive they are very likely telling you that because they have witnessed first hand the way the numbers game tears people to shreds in terms of mental health and motivation

I personally have never been one to get too hung up on numbers or clout because I've always been a very casual artist. But I have seen real lasting effects on others from even tangentially tying worth to the numbers. You can absolutely Make It and be a big artist and still have performance paralysis from The Numbers. Its not healthy, and it sticks with you in a lot of small ways. Im sure there are smug assholes out there about it, but most people telling you stop worrying are doing it because they know the end result. Even if it works and the grind pays off with lots of followers and commissions it is so, so, so easy to make yourself miserable in a myriad of ways creatively. I wish you all success but please, please try to catch this behavior/mindset early and don't let it poison your ability to create

anyone else think about their guy and briefly understand what it feels like to be an anime girl

My catalogue for EmblemCon, which starts tomorrow! All listings, new and older, are up on my Etsy!

Just for added measure, here's my shop link! Sometimes Tumblr is mean and doesn't display the link properly the first time but will fix itself when you put in the same link again for some reason OTL

My catalogue for EmblemCon, which starts tomorrow! All listings, new and older, are up on my Etsy!

Just for added measure, here's my shop link! Sometimes Tumblr is mean and doesn't display the link properly the first time but will fix itself when you put in the same link again for some reason OTL