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I don't even know how to start this

Posted 3 years, 10 months ago by akhayashi

After almost a year without posting anything online, here I am trying to come back to the internet again. I'm not sure if you still remember me but I'm glad to be here and I'll do my best to stay.

Ever since I started my current full-time job last year, I put aside all my creative hobbies and only when Covid-19 made us all stay at home I grabbed my pen again to draw something. I have a lot of free time now that I'm working from home, so I'm trying to use this time to get myself used to drawing and creating stories again. And to my relief, it's working!

I started a small visual novel project featuring two of my characters in a small boys-love story, in which I have been working on for a little more than a month now. It's been a fun project and the perfect opportunity to take me back on track again, since I have to draw many things like sprites, backgrounds... It's taking me out of my comfort zone and making me improve a lot on my skills.

If there's one good thing that the quarantine did to me, it surely was "forcing" me to come back to my hobbies. I used to spend all my free time doing useless stuff like playing video-games or watching TV shows XD I mean, these are nice things to do but they don't bring me the same joy as drawing or writing stories. So even after I come back to my normal work schedule, I want to keep doing my creative works even if for just a few minutes per day.

I'll also try to not disappear from now on. I've been dealing with anxiety for years now and it often makes me see problems where they don't exist, which includes self-doubt and the thought that "I'm not good enough to create anything for the internet". This type of thought is what made me delete most of my art accounts and just disappear, and I really don't want it to happen again. Yeah, I still have these thoughts more often than not, but now I promised myself that I won't listen to them, no matter what.

So that's it, this endep up being a mix between a update and vent post ;u; I just wanted to let you know that I'm back and I'm trying to come back to drawing my pretty boys. I just noticed that my Toyhouse is a complete mess and many character infos need an update, so I'll be working on that too.

Thanks for still being here after so many time, and please stay safe! <3