*HOWLS* New Gallery 2024!
August 29, 2024
Hello there, yup, I’m still alive! And finally, I can properly say I have a working gallery where I can upload new artwork! For the past two years, it was frozen in time and only a few knew where the “working gallery” was located. The reason is, that when linked to this site (publicly), the gallery wouldn’t last long due to an exceeding amount of traffic.
The person in charge of doing the previous gallery design and host couldn’t solve the bandwidth issue and I was cornered to pay a huge amount to sustain its increase, something which wasn’t planned at all, meaning the only other solution I had was to relocate the gallery to a new host while trying to recreate the same design without the system the other platform provided.
Because of this at the time, after working for a few months uploading every piece of art, I felt drained and burned out so much that I decided to move on to other things and retired from working on art for a long time, feeling this more like a cursed project than anything.
Over time I received help from ‘Arcanicanis’, who have worked helping me from the shadows for a long ass time, and I’m finally here, being able to work properly and upload freely new content. Thanks, buddy.
That said I’m not the same person I used to be and I’m not an active artist either. I pick and choose whatever I receive when I can focus and have the energy and time to do so. I’ve grown older, tired, and with more RL responsibilities that have nothing to do with the art that I used to do. Life happens, and suddenly you’re taking care of your parents before you know it.
I work as a teacher at times, manager, and other things. Art is just something on the side that I really like to do when you’re happy to do so, but at this time it’s not something I need to do in order to live. For a while my art was the seed of my dreams, but I’ve had to sacrifice the time I had to change for the better and learn other things along the way. But I’m rambling, what I mean is that I loved what I did, although kinky and weird, my work became part of a fandom that grew over time that I never anticipated 20 years ago. And I’m grateful for all of you who loved the stuff that I’ve done.
Because of this, nowadays this place is intended to be a legacy Archive of all the art that I’ve worked through the years and…decades. Back in 2001 I think I started posting and around 2002-2003 I puploaded my first website, it’s been quite the ride!
So due to my extended hiatuses here we are. Even if I stop doing art entirely I hope this place manages to keep steady for a while and work even if I’m not around all the time. But yeah, I’ll try to draw something here just to howl once in a while.
Until then you can always see if I’m active at my “X” account at : https://x.com/loboleo
See ya, and howls!
Leo