Mental Shifting

 Welcome back to another new episode of the almost Daily Zombie. Not quite there yet, but getting closer all the time. In todays post I'm going to talk briefly about changing attitudes and perception. Mostly mine but maybe others over time. 

For the last 5 years I have been making art and mostly posting it to the blockchain. I wasn't a crypto artist but I was an artist using crypto as a platform for selling. It was great and I learned a lot of different things. I fell in love with crypto because it connected me to a huge and hungry for art audience, it was easy to accept micro transactions that helped pay my bills, and most of all it allowed me to connect with and reward and engage with the people that liked my art.

As everyone knows the entire crypto scene went downhill pretty quickly but I hung on and continued to interact with my audience of collectors. Hopium is a helluva drug.

It took a recent interaction online within the crypto community for me to realize that this space has actually been slowly suffocating me in ways that are hard to express properly. Hopium and desperation and desolation. It was happening in slow motion and killing me little by little. 

In fact it caused me to stop valuing myself and stop valuing my work. 

But this isn't a pity party, because believe me if I started that there would be no end lol
Instead this is a message that I'm changing my life starting today and valuing the work I do and finding those that find the value too. Shifting gears from 100% crypto focused to less than 5%
The time to find my actual collectors of physical artwork has begun. 

It is time to unleash the power of the Horde to the world at large. I have a team that is boosting my confidence every day and my eyes are starting to realize what exactly I have built. We're starting with the Horde Loot Crates so they can learn all about global shipping and then we continue to expand.

I'm never going to stop drawing and painting and now I have a team that is dedicated to helping me achieve my goals, things are starting to get fun again and more importantly I'm starting to value myself again.

Inky Zombie Portraits

Hey everyone, hope your day is great. Today I started to draw some inky zombie portraits of people on Threads. So far 2 people submitted their faces to get drawn. So that was cool. I've started to look at patreon for another avenue to post my art at and try to earn a buck or two. 
I think I should have given up on my art career a long time ago. I am not making it. lol
damn

But at least it's fun still right?
If you want to get drawn, drop your face in the comments or find me on the socials.

The Merch on Display

 Praise the Horde the necrotic eagle has landed in Michigan and safely into the hands of the newly formed HORDE / BYRON merch division. Never in my life have I had complete strangers come into my life and fill the holes that have plagued me for years. What began as a commissioned artwork turned into a mutually beneficial adventure to bring my artwork of the Horde out to you, the Horde. 

​Art is starting to feel fun again as I begin to get much more social around the socials and will soon start my livestreaming sessions.

Mean while the Horde Merch division is creating the first every Horde Loot Crate and while we work on our website integration we have orders through Byron's Ko-fi page. Go here to place your order. 

We're going to try to make these loot crates fun and somewhat interactive to keep things interesting and different each and every month. We're also going to try to personalize things over time to give you art that you connect with as well as merch you might actually want.

Horde Loot Crate

 

I've been at this art game for a long time. So long it's all I know how to do. I've done a lot during these 16 years which includes mailing out calendars, cards, artwork and all sorts of other things. 
I'm not the greatest sales man but I am consistently showing up, doing my thing and I've gained some long time fans from it. They keep me going forward and looking to the future. 

One of my weaknesses though is being able to consistently create products and ship them out. I realize that this isn't my strength so you can imagine how excited and happy I am that there is a team that is dedicating themselves to JUST that very thing. It's a couple out in Michigan that I recently discovered, or they discovered me. Either way, we got to talking they volunteered to help grow the Horde and Loot Crates are step one. 

I'm very excited about this because I've seen al lot of the work they have been doing for the Horde and it's sharp. They make my art look even better.

We are taking orders on these loot crates until the end of the month. If you want to get one, follow this like to my ko-fi page. https://ko-fi.com/s/340192c43d

Have a great weekend