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I mean it isn't exactly the first random update I've ever done, is it?


Hi. It's been a while.

I've been feeling like uploading a journal for a few weeks now and I have no idea why. I'm not on dA, I'm not looking at art or talking much with anyone, yet here I am. I think dA has just always been a great place for me to write stupid shit without too many close people seeing.


I don't even know what this update is about. :lol:

Seriously, I'm just typing what come to mind here lawl


First, I do want to apologise for not replying to comments. I do read them, even if it takes me a few years, but I tend not to get engaged in conversation here anymore. Dunno why. Sorry.


Second, I suppose I want to browse some art, so I'mma go do that. Maybe see what my favourite artists have been up to for the past 4 years.

I personally haven't 100% stopped drawing, but I don't exactly post art every day, now do I?

I still livestream on Twitch every now and then but it's rare that I actually feel engaged in what I'm drawing.


You know what, I'm just gonna end the journal there, I'm not even going to give any context or reason as to why I wote this journal and just press subm-

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EDIT 2: WAIT WAIT WAIT WAIT WAIT......... deviations are now shown in Watch? That's fucking... different...


EDIT: Oh, so wait... Ian delete all my feedback at once. Cool.


Oh, look... LOOK OVER THERE... now look back here...

Charlotte is making her official comeback for the billionth time! :lol:


Yes, I am and, as usual, I hope that this time sticks. ._.


Okay, so a lot of you guys know it's been a messy couple of years for me. Since leaving France, BLAH BLAH BLAH you guys know the story.


ENOUGH ABOUT THAT STORY


Let's look on!

I've been gradually implementing my hobbies into my fucked up busy day life. I've been thinking of making a comeback recently and something pushed me.

Or actually, someONE.


Meet :devminimuffinpainter: I mean MiniMuffinPainter HOW THE FUCK DO YOU TAG SOMEONE ON ECLIPSE SOMEONE HELP ME

She joined dA literally not even an hour ago and you guys are already going to make her famous as hell, okay? Please. Thanks. :lol:

She's an awesome colleague and friend and she - wait for it - is a FIGURE PAINTER! She used to be on dA so let's all remind her how awesome this platform can be underneath the ArtStation-cloneness and foot fetishes! :dummy:


Anyway, today we made a pact that tonight we'd get on our respective PCs and create a dA account.

Well, this is like a decade-old ACCOUNT, but it still... COUNTS, okay?

I honestly hesitated to start a new account but this one has so much that I just figured I'll get it back up and running. It's an old ugly account but I can make it work with all of you'll's help (it's a word now, okay? ._.)! :la:

Jokes aside, I'm still not comfortable with drawing like a fucking art machine and doing a livestream every ten seconds like with :devsierranatteth: (that was an awesome and crazy time of my life, I've gotta say) but I'm thinking of participating more in the community and using my old account will be cool because people can check out my old stuff. :D


OH ALSO

I'm going to be uploading some of my best art from :devsierranatteth: for the next... couple of weeks? Or so. I want that shit in my gallery because it's been an INSANELY important part of my growth as an artist. So it's gonna be here, deal with it. :shifty:


STOP EVERYTHING. I've just remembered how shitty my computer is and thought you might want to know that I've shifted to Notepad to write the rest of this journal so that Firefox doesn't just crash on me and DELETE THE WHOLE JOURNAL LIKE LAST TIMAAAAAAH and I'm okay again. :lol:


Anyway. Let's get a bit serious. It's been a long time. I'm gonna delete ALL of my inbox and start from zero. I have a lot of messages just sitting there and I'm sorry to say they're gonna get deleted. I have read EVERYTHING including birthday posts and comments on my art but I will not be replying. I really hope you guys understand. I want this to be a true clean slate.

The next couple of weeks, as I've mentioned, will be full of my Sonic drawings from :devsierranatteth:. I'm not sure what I'm going to do with the account itself (it was too awesome for me to delete it, but I have so much art I owed it shouldn't even be legal). I want to try and commit to a schedule for uploading but since I'm still in a bit of a messy mess in my head, I think I'll make it once a month or something. Seriously something that I can actually manage aside all the shit I have to get done every day these days.

I think I might mix my approach I've had on this account and on :devsierranatteth:. I want to be my crazy self but also be the professional I was pretending to be on Sisi so you guys have to play along so I can start selling art to strangers, okay? Don't let on. Cool thx


If you're reading this and you're a watcher, you are fucking awesome. After all this time, you're still checking my shit? That's so AWESOME! Thanks and I will make a point to be more appreciative towards you. :love:


There's gonna be a lot of things moving about on my profile what with Eclipse making us shift to newer ways of being on dA. Instead of sulking too long about it (I've done my time), I've decided to just accept it and try to work with it. As should all of you! :meditation:


I'm also thinking of having a new OC! I love all my past OCs but this one has been one I've had in mind since I was a fucking CHILD. I want her to be a thing so I need to start a design! WOOOO am I excited! LET'S DO THIS!! :la:


That - that was the end of the journal.

As usual, I'm fucking terrible at endings...

Okay...


bai.

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Oh hello there

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It's time for my yearly updates yaaaaaaay

Hello everyone. How are you? Are you fine? I am not fine. Glad to be here to share the truths of my mishaps the past year or so.
Please read on if you like hearing of other people's misery and despair.

Naaah, nothing that bad. But stuff has happened since I moved to the Netherlands as many of you know and I've just kinda disappeared apart from a couple of unusually emotional journals both on this account and SierranatteTH.

So...
Eclipse, huh? Cool. What's new with you as the person who is watching me, though? Note me, comment below, tell me all about you.
In exchange, here is a lengthy me update. Enjoy.

I have no idea where to start...

I am experiencing the biggest creative block I've ever had. It's bad. And it's not just with my drawing, it's also affecting my other personal projects.
I've got completely out of touch with my creative side and now it's gone and I've lost the will to have any life goals or dreams. It's making going to work almost unbearable. I actually took a couple of days off this week to try and be alone and "find myself" again.

See, as some of you might know, when I moved to the Netherlands in 2017, I moved into a tiny room with my boyfriend who was living at his parent's house. While I will be eternally grateful to them for letting me live there for a year and a half, I can't help but think that it caused me to turn out this way. I feel uninspired, lost and stripped of my identity because of it. I had no space for myself, all my stuff was packed in boxes and I had to get used to an entirely new life which I had no idea would be so hard to get used to. I still am not used to it.

So after about a year of living there, ThatDutchGuy (my boyfriend) and I bought a house. It was either that or renting a 40m2 place for 700 euros a month (welcome to the Netherlands). I just wasn't ready for a house though. The renovations went smoothly but I was barely doing anything to help along. Poor DutchGuy felt really alonein the process... I think I was blocking out the fact that it wasn't what I wanted at the time. And so started this weird feeling that I'd lost control over my life. From there onwards, I stopped doing what I loved and started living for my routine.
This led to me doing something big. I'm the kind of person who won't get off her arse UNLESS she knows it's just what she has to do to be happy again.

I broke up with ThatDutchGuy. I fled back to France for a week already planning to move to England or see other opportunities.
After that week was over, I had to go back to the Netherlands for my job and all my stuff being there. ThatDutchGuy and I started talking. After a couple of days, we decided to try and take things slowly and get back together.
I feel like I made the right call. I realised at that moment that no matter where I'd go, I'd still be feeling shit. Running away wasn't going to solve the problem and I wasn't going to throw 5 years with this guy out the window.
He suffered a lot through that week and I'm still feeling guilty about it (it happened just over 2 months ago, it's pretty recent). Things are going much better now but he's still feeling bad about what happened and unsure sometimes... I don't know what to make of that.

But anyway, I think that was my way of trying to break through this block I've been experiencing.
I'm happy to be back in the Netherlands and living with ThatDutchGuy in our nice little house. I'm just miserable about everything else.

I've never minded having a mediocre job because I'd always be thinking about what a great artist/YouTuber/performer I'd be in the future (totally unrealistic but I soooo miss thinking like that) and doing art as soon as I got home from work. It was all worth the shit job I'd be doing.

But having nothing to stimulate me after work has led to me absolutely dreading the 40 hours of work. Plus I moved from working shifts to working a normal workday which I hate so much. Shifts allowed me to have so much time to do what I liked. I'm not leaving my job though because it's not that bad of a job when I think of it. It doesn't matter what job I have anyway, I'll always find it shit if I have nothing on the side.

I've started seeing a psychologist to help me deal with this and today I contacted dA people after so long on Discord. I feel like contacting dA people again might actually help remind me of what I'm missing out on as I mope in my corner.
But as bad as I make things out to be, I'm constantly trying things to spark my creativity again, so at least I'm not just wallowing in self-pity and I'm actually doing something about it

but yeah, all this to say I just haven't had the energy to be on dA and I know I still owe a lot of art, I just can't find the motivation to do it all anymore...
but i'm a lot more positive than i used to be and i think it's just a matter of time :D

sorry if this journal was a bit all over the place, a lot has been on my mind. i'm glad i managed to get some info out and if everything isn't quite clear, let me know so i can explain a bit better

sorry for the boring block of text, thanks for sticking around till the end! say a quick hi in the comments if you like ^^
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