Wakerra

I knew it was coming and couldn't be avoided, but I wasn't expecting it to be THIS BAD. This layout destroys everything I had built, trying to make things easy to find and follow. I've been on DA for so many years, leaving it now is going to tough. But DA has also been dead for a very long time, so I gotta make a move sometime. Gonna see if I can't take off with my Weasyl account. You can find me here https://www.weasyl.com/~wakerra Also don't forget to follow the SomebodyDice Youtube group! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDDIScx8xMO_Mtjk5CEX2Wg

A question I'm struggling to understand lately: what is the point of being an artist?  What is the proper motivation?  To make art "for yourself" is very hollow.  To become an artistic sensation takes a lot of talent and/or dumb luck that i can't seem to find, but that too comes with a terrible flipside that all fame has.We create for others to enjoy, but what are you supposed to do when you have no one to enjoy it?  An artist needs that feedback and purpose.  It's no wonder so many artists get so depressed and even some go suicidal.

A follow up to my last journal We Must Go Deeper , sometime after finishing our first campaign and into the next, it came to our attention that the name "We Must Go Deeper" really only fit that campaign, and the group needed a more official name.  suggestions and voting took place and we came up with the new name "SomebodyDice".  With an official group name came the official group logo, and with a cool logo needed an awesome animation (shout out to :devohlookitsanartist: for his amazing work and patience!), and things just kind of spiraled into an on-going shopping list of things that needed to be done from there.Now, after about 6 or so ...