Minxy-Moo

While I will not be uploading artwork anymore, my page will remain open for the enjoyment of my watchers.
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Hey all. I hope you have all been well and loved wherever you are.

I have had very limited time to drawing much of anything. All of my time is spent elsewhere these days.

Therefore I do not believe I will be uploading any more work on DeviantArt. I considered closing my page, but I still get a ton of likes and watches from people, so I feel bad doing that. Therefore:

While I will not be uploading artwork anymore, my page will remain open for the enjoyment of my watchers.

Thank you so much for viewing my work, supporting my artistic journeys, and constantly reminding me that I must be doing something right. I hope everyone here stays well and continues to spread the same love I have received. I will still check my messages on DeviantArt, so if you'd like to stay in touch feel free to reach out.

Thank you everyone, I love you all!

I've seen a couple of people tell their stories, and I'd like to tell mine. 

I joined DA about 6 years ago (I think), but it was a site I visited quite often before that. When I was in middle school, a new friend had told me she also went on the site, so I joined and befriended her on there too. She really inspired me to draw, and although I was really self-conscious about my work, I posted it anyway. They were really bad drawings: I was really inexperienced, terrible with poses, and I had "same-face syndrome." 

At some point I switched usernames from my original name (chobtheothgipod) to a newer one (minxymoo) because I needed a fresh start. I wanted to get more serious with my artwork and my dumb sketches from middle school were embarrassing. The username was a "what's your unicorn name" generator, and I felt it didn't sound too bad. This was the name I kept for the rest of high school and into college. I started feeling better about my artwork. I started off doing traditional works (colored pencils and a prismacolor ink pen) but then learned about Paint Tool Sai and started working on my digital artwork. My digital stuff sucked, however, because I didn't have a tablet and it was all done by mouse or trac-pad. It was during this phase of my DA life that the icon family (or FamdA) was created with these lovely people:


I started getting to know them (because most of them were not my friends originally) and found them all to be wonderful people! I really looked to them for inspiration and just to chat, because at this point in my life my irl friends seemed to be diminishing. I really loved being part of this icon family.

Then I hit one of many low points in my life and deactivated my account. I suddenly felt betrayed and didn't want anything to do with DeviantArt. I stopped drawing for an entire summer and I gave up.

However, once the fall semester started again, I missed some of the people from the icon family, and started a new account (hawt-dawg). I found some new people and slowly started to draw again, but since I had given up on digital art, it was all traditional. It was at this time I took a photography class and posted a lot of photos that I had taken. My interest in photography continues to this day:
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For Christmas, I got a tablet from my boyfriend, and though it took me a couple of months to get used to, I really started developing my skills. There was an explosion of improvement last summer, and I decided I wanted to go back to my icon family. I did a contest the following Christmas and got a 1 month membership and changed my name back to Minx (Minxy-Moo). My digital skills have seen a massive amount of improvement over the past year, and I started gaining a lot of followers who started requesting work from me:
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In the future, I hope to continue to develop. I am taking a second photography class, so you can definitely plan on seeing more of my fantastic models: H, C, T, and S. I also hope to continue to develop my anatomy and poses, and coloring is always a work in progress.
I am so thankful for everyone who finds my work inspiring to them, because (to me) having someone see my work and say: "I want to draw because of her," makes it all worth it.
I love all of my friends!

And that's the Minx story. Thanks for reading, friends!

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