Closing the group
Hello and good evening! After thinking about it for serval weeks and noticing the negative sides of this whole Deviantart change, including a quite much decreased amount of viewers etc, when it comes to furry art especially, I made a decision.
While I am now trying to manage my daily time better, including patreon, my art together with my regular work, hobbies, gym and daily duties in life, I decided to close this group.
I founded this group a whole decade ago and it was quite nicely supported by all of you, with fancy art, beautiful images and so on.
Deviantart made it less efficient to use this site even after I got rather used to most of its changes, but it consumes more time to manage the group, Deviantart managers certainly know how to let a site look simpler and easier while easy tasks such as drag and drop sorting of images, favs and so on just dissapeared, same for the 24-images-per-page, first more per page were premium content, now all of us have the endless scroll down which makes sorting pics hard and very time consuming, especially when you click "select all" but then it selects just the loaded pics, not those that load while scrolling down.
Aside of that I noticed my daily pageviews going below half what it used to be, same for views and favs, which lets me guess a bunch of artists and watchers probably left.
FurAffinity is my most frequently used art sharing place, they might be simple, have a not exciting UI but they did their upgrade well while staying simple, simply a site to share and comment art, which DA managers mae kind of unneccessarily more time consuming.
I will not dissapear on DA, but reduce my being here with just posting recent art I make and faving a few pics of artists I still follow.
Thanks to all of you, my dear group members, who stood with me for a bunch of years, up to a whole decade, stay awesome, enjoy beefy anthros everywhere on the sites and keep supporting us with your favs and comments. <3<3
The group will not be deleted as the collection of all creators' art will remain for art refs, or just to enjoy looking at the gorgeous muscle anthro pieces our members drew, stories they wrote and so on. <3
Places where to find me except here:
The -where to find me- hint
the EF was great!
It was my first time ever on an actual furry con, one I could reach by car within 2 hours at least, so I went there with some friends.
It was amazing how nice everyone was, even if... a few had quite the amounts of alcohol in their rooms XD
So many fancy artists and arts, awesome suiters and even awesome people on the motor furs event I joined with my car among many other fantastic, crazy or beautiful vehicles, where I got more positive feedback than on regular tuning meetings, I wish it would be as open minded and friendly as on the EF. x3
Next time I think about selling some prints there or other merch I'd need to think about beforehand, the whole convention boosted my artist confidence where I slowly get out of this stupid artblock, also want to manage my art time better and think about switching to a 4-days-week where the fifth is for art business, so I could actually get my stuff done faster and better.
I also plan to open up a ko-fi and patreon, even if its just for sharing high res scans of my art there or early bird releases in the future, afterall my art hobby is expensive as a traditional artist x3
I will definetly join the EF26 in August 2020, even if it costs me a shitload of money thanks to hotel prices shooting through the roof for a normie like me x3
