Where do i go from here - 02/19/2026

A big problem I often come upon, is completing something big i worked to - like for example most recently selling art work at a convention, and then finding myself not knowing what to do next. I had a similar feeling after getting my first job, the aftermath of traveling to italy, or completing my college degree. It is not a unique experience to me of course, its something that I would say plagues most adults, young and old. Despite the ordinary feeling of it, I still want to talk about it? Maybe in a way to just debrief me from it. if that makes any sense.

When I sold my art at furfest, I thought that more people would interact with my site, but mostly the opposite happened, it seemed that no one wanted to interact with my site. I was left very disappointed to be quite honest. I imagined myself getting more guestbook comments, and cute doodles made by many people. I had the realization that outside of the neocities, most people rarely interact with the internet outside of social media. I even had many people come up to me and demanded to know when I would sign up for a certain social media for them. "Never, I want to stop signing up for social medias" was the response I would give them. Even my friend, who is a writer, would prefer to host her writings on substack, instead of having a site or blog to post her writings on. It seems that webmasters, and bloggers are a bit of a dying breed.
I just assumed I guess that people would have the same excitement for my site, that I have for it, and other personal blogs. Instead I feel that people have forgotten that blogs had ever existed. Which I suppose makes sense. I have friends who never have interacted with forums, people who before social media stuggled to use the internet. Now that the internet has become social media, its hard to visualize what it would be like without it.

After selling my art, and having so little people interact with my site, I feel that the relationship with my site, and my art has changed. Im not a person who likes change. I hate when the colors of the walls change color, when the drink I get tastes different somewhere else. So, even when change is good, or neutral, I get thrown off. Now im left with extra prints, a dying void that I type to and a pessimistic and a slight misanthrope feeling about how people interact with the internet.

Where do i go from here?

Making Money from my Art

I like the idea of making money from my art, it was fun to make sales selling stickers, prints and a handful of commissions. I got some ideas for more prints to make, and it so funny how uninterested people were in buying my figure art prints. I think later on Ill like make a statistic somewhere on my site to keep track of what sold well, and things like that. So, its not all negative. Plus, it was fun to buy other art, and trade stickers and such as well. But while people were buying my art, I realized how money can influence the work you create. A lot of my art is not done from "the soul", which is fine, I don't think that my art carries the weight of the devine or is life changing. Not to say my work is souless, but I think traditional art, compared to pottery, or fiber work - for example, has a strange loftyness to it. That you have this other idea which many people have told me - in which in order to create art you need to have this "creative" soul. Which I also think is a silly notion, for one I don't see myself as a creative person. Yet, I can make art and paint. I think making art is like any other skill, in which you just have to work on it, to get good at it?
Anyways, was going on a bit of a tangent. What I meant to say, was I was thinking about how while I was selling my stickers, and prints, I was think how sales would affecting what art I want to make and create for future shows. Which, is not a bad thing, I just never really had any feedback before. Prior to this convention, I really had only made art for me, practice, and the occasional commission for a friend. Getting actual live feedback from paying customers was in itself just not something I had experienced before.