Hi, so, first I wanted to say how surprised I was to have one of my submissions featured on the front page of the site. I'm glad someone liked it enough to slot it up there, and that a bunch more people thought it looked interesting enough to click on. I'm even more surprised at how pretty much all of my uploads perform so well here. I'm used to my posts getting ignored/buried on tumblr/dA and discoverability is pretty poor on twitter. It made it initially difficult to know if my work had an audience at all.

I'm glad to be finding one here, and that people seem to respond positively to a simple background artist's uploads.

As per a New Year's resolution, I'd like to try streaming art every weekend. I don't have a set day or time, and all I can say with absolution is that it probably won't be on Saturday between the hours of 10AM to 2PM EST. I'm leaning toward Sundays, probably not too late in the day, at least for now.

I stream games and art on Mixer infrequently, but will focus on art on the weekends. I'm doing this because I've gotten a few requests in a couple discord servers I'm in to show my process or make tutorials. Apparently, my style is actually unique enough to warrant people asking about my process, somehow...

Anyway, my Mixer link is on my art page. I'd like to stream today, even, assuming my internet holds up. I'll try my best to answer questions in the chat, or recruit a friend to watch it for me. I hope that doing weekly, or bi-weekly, art streams might at least be entertaining or interesting.

I'd like to end this off by saying that there are background/landscape artists on this site who are ten times better than I am, and anyone who might follow me to glean insight into background art should really check out my favorites and follow those guys as well. I'd imagine you might learn a fair bit more from the truly great illustrators than from me, and I know that I've already gained some insight just by studying some of the images I favorite. That's probably the best thing about being in this smaller community, it's a little easier to find the people above me in skill level whose work meshes with my interests. More than anything, that's what helps me grow.

And having others be interested at all keeps me motivated. I'm very glad for the people who vote and favorite my posts. You have no idea how much that means to me, caring about what I make enough to rate it and leave comments means more than the world.