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Erwin0859

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Hello dear people who are still watching me, despite my inactivity here since a few years, and welcome to those few of you who joined until now :)


I hope you're all been doing okay until now, or that things will get better as soon as possible :clap:


I won't go as far as to say that I'm back (and for real, not just checking my inbox twice a year like I've been doing until now, lol), but I used vacation free time to log in and start clearing it. And so, I might as well give an update, at least to those who are long-time followers and who didn't unwatch me since that time ^^;


Compared to my period of activity before 2020, I would say I gained wisdom (as it turns out, I'm more on the intellectual side), but also that loneliness slowly but surely made its way. First work is going well, but aside from seeing colleagues, the level of social interactions I had during school and university is gone; and good luck socialising as a young adult, especially when you add introversion and being intellectual to the recipe ^^;


In terms of art, because that's what this website originally was and seemingly still is, and more generally, regarding my tastes :

- I basically dropped my active interest into Pokémon (= I still like, but I don't seek for it)

- as for battle tanks, I no longer draw them on paper but I create them in Sprocket (it also replaced 3D modelling with Sketchup)


Due to my change of interests overall, I may well one day proceed to clear my watch list, in order to ease the burden of checking through everything.

Besides, now that I've fallen in the Genshin Impact hole since a little over 2 years now, it's also time to replace the content of my inbox :meow: ... at least, I guess that should give me a reason to come check it more often than twice a year ;P


In other news, I also got into vintage cameras collection, and I even used a few vintage lenses for digital photography... but I'm a technician and not an "artist", so either the result is clear or it's blurry, there is no particular sensitivity behind it :|


More on the fantasy part, I still have my OCs, I didn't trash them; they got some updates behind the scenes during that time. However, I still didn't manage to get into actual drawing, so for now, at best I'm stuck with tables or templates to fill :shrug:

(also Genshin Impact totally didn't spy on them somehow to inspire a part of its characters, like wtf, might as well give them a GI setup like they would be in the game-)


Well I think that's all that came to my mind, have a nice day or night whenever you happen to be reading this, and feel free to start a chat in the comments or in notes/private messages :)


Also, a reward for those who bothered to read this whole brick of text :dummy:

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I heard of two websites which appear to me as what DeviantArt should/could be if the ones holding its strings wouldn't be stubborn nor deaf... Here have some links to their Discord servers, which you can mute, to stay aware of their development. For those wondering, I still don't plan to "leave" DeviantArt, either I will be just less active like now, or I will be inactive for big periods of time like I already was, so... no big differences, eh.

ArtSpacious: discord.gg/JgcxUkG
(custom link that should provide me with a special badge once the website is finally released)

Artrise: artri.se/ the Discord invitation is on their front page

Stay safe out there and have a nice day/night! :wave:
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Might be bait title, but watching the video (and actually fully, at normal speed, and understanding it too) is still a good use of your free extra time during this Covid-19 pandemic ;)

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Status update

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Hello people, long time no see :)

Don't worry, I'm not dead. I've just been pretty busy with other things, both in reality and online. I don't plan to quit dA, in fact, I maybe plan to come back with something new (two drawings are ready to be submitted, plus a little project I should, in theory, soon start to work on).

For now, I will progressively clean my dA inbox, starting by messages, before slowly going over the +17,500 deviations, journals, polls and all those things stacking up since the beginning of the year. The number of things to check won't allow me to "spam favorite" like I used to do back then when I had more free time than busy-making things, and much less daily notifications too...
Besides, after thinking about it, it possibly wasn't really a good thing to favorite a whole gallery (well it was well deserved in someone's case at least) since it naturally causes spam, not to mention the mighty "You added too many favorites in a short amount of time" (yay good luck cleaning your dA inbox quickly yet while still adding a form of like to people's more or less effortful work).

Anyway, I'm not officially "returning" but still kinda. Just have patience™

:wave:
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