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chaos8bit

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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.

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Visible Earth

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I have a question to any person who makes space art and has ever used the website "Visible Earth" as a resource for textures.
Which Archive do you usually browse to find some suitable images of the terrain? I already searched everywhere D:

visibleearth.nasa.gov/
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50 Watchers

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I thank everybody soo much for watching and supporting. I know that 50 is not really much, but hey, it took me 2 years to get there. And the most curios fact about this is, that I got like 20 watchers in the same month, and 12 of them yesterday. This has surprised me beyond all of my expectations. :D Thank you so much.
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Favourites

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Hey there. Usually, I thank every individual deviant on their wall if they do anything positive to me, like a comment or a fave. But since the last few deviatations have been uploaded, the average number of them has gotten so high that it generally has become a struggle to scroll through an endless list of people who have faved me.
The bottom word is that I will stop writing "thank you" on everyone's walls. Sorry about that.

Of course, that doesn't mean I stopped being very thankful for everybody that supports me. That is not the case xD I am always grateful for everybody who faves and comments my art (: I only stopped expressing this gratitude on everyone's wall, because, well.. it's pointless. Also, I've heard from some few watchers, that being thanked for faving is annoying for them. So yeah.. some will probably feel this as a slight relief xD.
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On 10th August 2011, I've joined deviantart. 731 days passed since then.

I'd love to thank all of my watchers for supporting me, everyone who is favorising and commenting my work and all the people who motivate me to keep doing this. Thank you so much!

Unfortunately, I haven't yet produced a "special" deviatation for my anniversary. This is because I didn't feel good emotionally for the last few weeks (please don't ask why) and this provides me with a lack of motivation.
But I promise that I am going to catch up on this. So please don't worry (:

I wish all of you a very nice day.
Yours truly,

BonusExperiment
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I'll probably revive this account :) by chaos8bit, journal

Visible Earth by chaos8bit, journal

50 Watchers by chaos8bit, journal

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Deviant for 2 Years. by chaos8bit, journal