Hello old friends.. I've been thinking about continuing this recently. I'm not sure if anyone is still around, but if you are, please give me a little longer to rewrite the story. It's been so long since I've worked on it. You don't have to read this, but I wanted to explain where I've been.
I don't usually get personal online, so bear with me. I feel kind of weird about it. Mo and I (Mocha) had planned to make a few comics years ago. I made masked shadow independently both because I wanted practice on drawing comic formats, and because Mo was frequenting on the internet less often.
When I created this comic, I was at a really good place in my life. I had lost a lot of weight and felt confident for the first time in my life. I had a lot of new friends and was always working on creative projects. I wanted to spread body positivity and wanted everyone to love themselves as much as I did! I decided I was going to express that through this comic. Unfortunately shortly after making it, things changed.
I had a falling out with all my new friends, mainly because of a toxic relationship, and in the end I lost most of them. All of my old friends had moved away by this point and Mo was no longer available as she had moved too and created a life of her own. I am happy for her! But I became really lonely and depressed. I gained weight, I worked a lot, I gave up on art. I couldn't relate to these characters anymore because I no longer liked myself. My cat children who were always there for me passed away as well.
I now have found someone who has helped pull me out of it. I don't think he realizes how much he's helped me. But regardless, I'm feeling much happier these days! Maybe not everything bad has gone away, but I'm working on improving it all!
I would like to restart masked shadow as I return to my own journey of loving myself again, and being able to create art I enjoy. Thank you for reading. It it feels good, but weird to get it out.
Welcome back! I'm sorry you had to go through all that, but am glad you're doing better now! I look forward to seeing what you come up with, creating can be very therapeutic!
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