Hello! Today, while looking at my art pages, I had a thought- why is this the most extensive gallery of my artwork? Why am I not posting on other places on the internet, where I could be seen, get traffic, get recognized? I'd like to talk about that here. Let's start with my history with posting art online, just to get an idea where I've traveled.

Probably the earliest place I've ever posted my artwork was on Sketchfu, an oekaki site that had social functions, including comments, reactions, profiles, and private messages. I got my best start as an artist on there. I had so much fun every day, through the drama, bans, roleplay shenanigans, friendships... then I became disinterested over time, moving to deviantArt, aaand it closed.

From there as mentioned, I went to deviantArt. It was a whole new battleground for me- a website totally dedicated to artwork! Writing! Shenanigans!! That became my outlet, fort, paradise for art. I loved browsing the deviations posted, reading comments, posting my own works. It was a great place to find and connect with other artists. Over time again, I gravitated to other types of websites, and began to post artwork on 4Chan and Neopets. That's how I stopped using deviantArt- and rarely revisit it post-Eclipse.

During the advent of Discord, I started to post my artwork there. Many pieces have been LOST from that time, due to the fact Discord is not a site meant to be used as an archive. At all. Ever. But I didn't know that, and happily posted away. It wasn't til years later that I stopped posting on 4Chan altogether, and began exclusively posting on Discord. Still a big oops, but by then I learned to save (almost all) of my artwork.

So what happens here? I join this big group of artists, hang out, have fun. Alright. We connect on Twitter, interact here and there, and so I post once in a while. Well, eventually, I just stopped posting stuff I made. I only posted stuff meant for other people. Eventually I did start posting stuff I liked, but then I didn't at times.

One of the few pieces to survive my need to DELETE.
It was a birthday gift for a friend, which explains that.

I think I just got fed up at some point. There was Sheezy, I joined Sheezy, Sheezy DIES after I upload two year's worth of content. I join Buzzly, Buzzly is shunned for having an insane admin. Inkblot's up, everyone says it's promising, Inkblot is ROTTING. There are no winners with this constant attempt at creating a new art site. Twitter currently has the strongest hold on artist activity, having many international artists, a feed, so many people posting, non-artists to interact with posts... it's too much that no budding art site can truly promise. So I'm kinda done with posting my art anywhere else, at least frequently. I delete my art after some time just because I feel like it. It's that easy to do on Twitter.

Have you seen my 2022 art gallery?
Yeah, I posted ALL that shit to Sheezy.
Then BOOM. GONE!

Here I am, on my little island, me and myself. I feel freer than on any other site to post the things I make, to keep it up, to make it presentable. While I may not get seen, may not get found, at least I have somewhere consistent to keep my artwork. No need to rotate through different platforms every few years. I'm done with that. I do have to wonder who else carries this sentiment. Are there other artists, marooned on their own little islands, wondering if there'll ever be a time we can come back together again?

This is my face when thinking about the current state of art sites.
This was also an image I posted on Twitter, but deleted after some time.
Oops!