I originally started sharing new art from when I started drawing fan art inspired by The Hobbit movies on my deviantART site. I created it to more easily find other fans who were inspired by the movies, as well as to be more easily found by them. Once I started creating fundraiser art for sanctuaries, I just added them there as well. I didn’t have any art galleries on my CFGriffith website – only older websites. So it just made sense to keep adding things there.
More and more though, I’m finding I don’t like the changes being made to places like dA… especially if there are automated things you can’t get better control of, like who can view a drawing or not once some non-human has accidentally deemed art that’s safe for all audiences as “mature” (man, someone needs to adjust those settings… LOL!!!!! A lot of art is getting censored that is laughably way off the mark).
I’m also finding myself being more social with other artists (regardless of how or what we create) on actual social media. Plus, that’s where it seems most people who would be interested in anything I create now will actually find me. And since it seems all things lead back here, it makes sense to actually put them here.
Since I want to go back to using my website more often, I figured I might as well finally create an art gallery here. I finally finished moving all of the fundraiser animal sanctuary art here (although I might add extra images over time as I come across them, like the finished merchandise, or progress photos, or my thoughts/process etc).
You can find that gallery here.
Although the pages are technically being stored in my “art” section in the “hobby” category for my organization with all the topics I’ve posted here over the years, you can get to them all (including costumes, and any collection of photos) under the “Image Gallery” link on the heading. Until I change the theme, you can also find them easily on the right sidebar too.
Will I eventually delete my dA? I’m honestly not sure. The current plan is not to do that – so many people found me through there, and I’d hate to just disappear without warning. I might add a note on my profile mentioning I’m no longer going to add new art on there, and where to find me. The point is, the movies – and my fan art – came out many years ago now, so those images were watermarked with my dA url as well as my website url. The ones getting added on THIS website’s new gallery will most likely just be resized smaller versions with those same watermarks just to keep my job a little lighter with moving things over (not to mention, keep things clear where they started over the years).
Those old website galleries I mentioned? I’m going to keep the domain name, but I’m thinking of doing away with the hosting to save money. They really don’t represent me, or my current interests anymore since it’s been SO long ago. Will I move all of the art from those to here? Ick. It honestly gives me a headache thinking about it. While I’m at it, how far back do I go? Scan drawings from my childhood? (Actually, that could be fun to do a post about progress over the years, but those sound more like blog posts.) I might just add a landing page, maybe with a few of those drawings put together for visual recognition, and a link to the newer galleries.
Honestly, I think the main cut off should be the art that is “newest,” and got me BACK to working on art again. That would be the Dwarf/Hobbit movies fan art. So I think that will be the cut-off point going back… for a “full” gallery, I mean.
So if you follow me on dA, keep in mind you might not see anything new again, and if you have been following me here (thank you SO much for your continuing support!), don’t be surprised if you see things shifting around and changing a bit as I shuffle art, collections, and tidy up!
Looking forward to the New Year, not just to get a fresh space online, but as I figure out how on earth my husband and I can do all the things we do (art, podcasting, waaaaaaaay too many things with waaaaaaaay too many gadgets taking up space) in our way-too-tiny-for-us apartment, but still feel like we’re not living in a storage unit that requires moving furniture to draw, enjoy a fireplace, or do laundry.
