princess34peachie

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Sketchfu-ing since 05/25/2011 (user #215747)

female

10 drawings

675 total views

42 funny

106 cute

79 impressive

About princess34peachie

hi its haruhi34 heI have never been the popular kind, the type to have a huge group of friends, or friends that follow me around everywhere and phone me to come hang out. Since a kid I've always been the type to have a small handful of close, long-time friends who I share a special bond with.

Because of this I have become increasingly afraid to get social on sketchfu like I used to- a lot of people have sent messages to me asking "can we become friends?" which sounds all too easy. To me, a friend is someone who you have shared experiences with over time; a true friendship can never be made instantaneously. A few people have tried to use me just for self-promotion, too, because of my frequently increasing pageviews.
Today, it is all too easy to make (or "add") lots and lots of friends on the big world wide web and in that sense I feel like something precious is being lost along the way.

Thus my social status on sketchfu has become very low- but I never joined sf to use it as a social network in the first place. I joined sketchfu to share my art, recieve comments on it and help improve myself with my passion. Overtime I have gained an amazingly large number of visitors from inside and outside of sketchfu. It shouldn't- most of those visits come from my drawings being hosted around the web. These vistors are just as important though- they may not be members on sketchfu, but they are still people taking time to look at my art, and some even join so that they can comment. That makes me very happy, to have such a big demographic all around the world.

My closest friends that I made on sketchfu are all people that I keep in touch with elsewhere, not here. I barely talk to them here. So I do not like this increased pressure to feel like if I am not active on sketchfu 24-7, then I am not a good person.

Yes, I may be shy, but my priorities lie in keeping my connections strong with the people who really matter to me most, and it makes me sad to realize that I am just one person and can never be friends with all of you, since you have all been incredibly kind and supportive throughout my artistic journey.
It feels like I am passing by a stranger who drops me a friendly comment, where I reply "Thank you very much" sincerely and feel grateful- but then we move on.

Perhaps I am being too deep- but it has definately been a concern for me with the big questionre XD