Hi there!
It's been a pretty long time since anything has happened on this account. Roughly 6 years ago I've made the decision to stop posting art and made all my work public domain. There have been two major reasons for this. For one, I was struggling with intense IRL issues which have occupied my attention. And second, it increasingly felt like space art was becoming somewhat of a stale subject and it felt like every deviation I posted was just a regurgitation of the same themes. In my own subjective opinion my work lacked substance, and it simply became less and less fun to create things. At some point it felt like I published art not because it was my passion, but because I tried to satisfy an implicit expectation of uploading on a regular schedule. I don't know, it kinda lost it's magic. Nothing else to say.
Since that time I have never been completely inactive on deviantArt, I've still been lurking here and there and enjoying the work of other people, adding some to my list of favorites and trying to draw inspiration for something new. And more and more I've realised how much I really miss the deviantArt community, especially the correspondence with other talented artists who like doing similar things as I do, but also all the nice people who share my visions and gave me their comments and feedback.
6 years is a long time. When I began on deviantArt, I was a 12 year old kid. Now I have nearly completed my masters degree and I believe that I have grown and changed a lot in these years. I really want to do things on deviantArt again, however it might be something different than space art. I'm very dedicated to improving my digital painting skills and you might see some of it here if I feel like it's worth publishing. However, I'm occupied with my thesis at the time of writing this, so no promises yet.
So yeah, this is my update. If you wanna chat just hit me up. I'd be love to talk to some of you and see which of the old folks are still active around here.
Also, just to clear up the username change: I used to be "BonusExperiment", but nowadays I go by "chaosbyte_" on most social media (discord, twitter, Battle.net). Sadly, that one was already taken, so I've gone with my alternative spelling, "chaos8bit".
Much love.