Hi everyone, as I've mentioned under my recent pictures already, I will be cutting down my activities on DeviantArt a bit during the following weeks. I am uploading quite irregularly anyways as my studies are very demanding, but unfortunately I have to say that here on DA it has become a little more of a chore than a pleasure. This was my first platform to upload pictures to now over six years ago already. And in that time the site has changed a lot. There are still great artists around submitting amazing images and I enjoy the work of the people I follow very much. But browsing for new artists has become increasingly difficult due to the huge amount of crap (excuse my language) that the good images get swallowed in. And it seems like I'm not the only one feeling like this as several people whose work I enjoyed very much left DA already. I've been thinking about this for a while already because as I mentioned, DA is where I started, where I have the most followers and still get the most likes and nice comments. So, I decided that at least for now I will still upload my pictures here but in particular I will stop submitting to groups. I find DA groups a great tool as they bring together people with interest in similar art. They allow to much better target the people interested in my pictures and find pictures I like myself. I used to submit to many groups, but the group submission system is so clumsy that it cost me a lot of time and took a lot of the joy of publishing pictures. This will give me a lot less reach but hopefully more fun and potentially it might actually allow me to publish more pictures than I currently do.