Deer drawing dogs

Anyways I'm gonna be protecting my peace heavily from here on out and will do whatever it takes to do so. I'm tired of being tired, I'm going to be an artist again.

I've learned that when you see someone desperately clawing their way to hit rock bottom for so long, you just have to let go and let them hit the ground to learn the hard way. Some will never learn and will say you threw them there, and I'll never find myself in that position EVER again.

Getting away from socials for two months has been what I needed, I think. I've learned to simply notice when someone takes & takes, never giving as much as they demand of you. In rose colored glasses, red flags just look like flags and all that.

I will say I'm happy to be the first parent in my family to take their child to therapy BEFORE it's severely needed, as prevention instead of in the aftermath. I can't fix parents who don't raise their kids right, but I can give my kids the tools to handle those kids. 🥺

I haven't really been anywhere online, didn't mean to worry friends but I was focusing hard on getting my house together without stacking more comms on, and also spending a whole lot of time with my eldest when she needed it most. 🥺 13 is rough in 2026, man. I won't go into details but

I've managed to get my furniture replaced, as I'd given mine to my kids after their room flooded. I'm gonna sound hacked but on god I made the funds via mobile games to avoid adding to my queue and I think I hate merge games now but I have a proper BED AND WORK SPACE NOW HELL YEAH

Alright I'm finally set up and ready to come back to art

I'll ramble about it below, but since I have no art to add here I'm gonna share the prettiest thing I've made during my hiatus...

( Stromboli from scratch, god I missed baking )

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I feel that, I wish more people moved here. I feel its silly to stay there since, besides all the other hell, it doesn't even show friend's posts anyways. People seem to be stubborn about retaining the now-worthless number by their names. ): I really miss what it was, not what it became.

The social media break has been a huge help on my mental health, though. Popping on here for 15 minutes a few times a day & going back to being productive feels like how the internet was two decades ago. I hope more people make the move here and free themselves from it all.

Ended up spending this last week focusing on clearing Christmas from the house and organizing it a bit better. Cramming a 3 bedroom house into an apartment less than half the size has been a HELL of a feat. I need this place organized before I can draw with peace of mind, almost there. ❤

I sure hope they add buns next, like handles for a burger

If anyone knows of a third party extention that can quickly delete posts without getting me banned for suspicious activity before its done, please let me know. One for archiving would be great, too.

I had to unlock my account for an old callout thread to be mirrored by someone making an up-to-date Google doc ( the 🦘 one ) and was going to lock it again and leave it be, but I fear that won't be enough now. Just heart-breaking.

Losing the reach doesn't even bother me like losing the good memories, particularly from the early days when I first met everyone. It'd take so much longer than a week to archive it all and I don't have free time like that, I have work to do.

New X policy will take from every single artist and feed it to AI, no more opting out. I left it already, but now I fear I have to delete it all. All those years of memories, all the posts where I first met good friends, the funny back and forth, and it has to be gone within a week to opt out. ):

Lmaoo truly living his best life 😭

Thankfully I feel I'm on the recovery end! They say it takes half the time of the relationship to heal, always seems to be true. I had lots of good come from the healing journey in the end. ❤

Winter break is about to end and I can FINALLY draw in peace again. Back to my queue, but first I'm taking an edible and doing whatever warmup sketches get me out of this art block tonight

I've been mostly inactive everywhere for a year while recovering from a rough breakup and a ton of stuff life threw my way as a result, but I'm feeling recovered and ready to get back to art. I appreciate everyone's patience as I rebuilt my foundation once more. ♥️

I'm Doe, an artist of many mediums including:
2D, 3D, traditional, digital, animation, sculpting, and more!

Other socials:
linktr.ee/DoeKawaii

I'm a parent, so I'm less active during school breaks to focus on them.

Focusing mostly on OCs for my comic, The Wolves at Bay, and some occasional FNAF!

It's genuinely been the hardest recovery yet, prolonged by a couple of other problem people along the way, it feels amazing to finally feel like me again 🥺

I stopped drawing every "The Wolves at Bay" character because I needed time to recover from that breakup since my ex got his claws into so much of the story. I've been contemplating some changes to clear out what he added, too. I'm ready now. ❤

Anthropomorphic golden retriever / Irish Wolf hound mix, older man, wearing blue soccer coach uniform. Pointing and speaking, smiling, carrying soccer ball under one arm.

I miss drawing Wilson SO MUCH.

I need to draw furry dads as my warmup sketch tomorrow. I think it's been over a year, it's time!

Alrighty this is an extremely rough warm up in between working on comms, but he seriously needed an update, so I've finally revamped my TWAB OC!

(TWAB by @doekawaii.bsky.social)

AWW LOOK AT HIM
He's come a long ways & he's super cute!

Posting my FNAF 2 Springtrap animation to get things going here

Drawn, rigged, & Animated in Moho
Background painted in Rebelle

I've been migrating since MySpace in 2009, never saw any place get as bad as X 😭

HIII I MISSED YOU TOOO

On god its like, okay so my art won't be seen, my silly text posts will be ripped to shreds while people hallucinate problems with me and project, and whatever art IS seen gets stolen while kids are in constant danger there. No thank youuu 😭

You did so well with it!! He really stands out in his own now and kept all his charm that makes him yours ❤