PIX3L_NATION on hiatus.

Back from the dead again with some slightly depressing news. Over the past few months, my art group, PIX3L_NATION had been expanded greatly since it's formation for the last 2 years. Unfortunately, I felt that that the progress and changes that were made were too fast and too vast for the group to handle, it had faded out like a lit matchstick. Main contributions to this situation was very bad decisions made mid-2015 that led to our co-founder's departure. In result, the rest of the members followed. All members had parted ways mutually. I won't go into individual details with the member's departure.

Personally, I had been some what busy with PIX3L_NATION as it comes down to this very moment. The group had been more of a company & brand (as what majority of local people here had assumed it that way even though it really isn't) than it is an art group. This had led to many talks, business ventures, and further media coverage. This was mainly because of my status as an alumni of my college. While it brought more attention to the group, unfortunately people got the wrong idea of what PIX3L_NATION is. Just because we went through some changes. Eventually, I suppose that had changed our ideals over time as well to adapt to things (we decided to just roll with it). In dealing with all this crap, I was unable to be as happy with my life and pixel art as I used to. Fun had started to critically feel a lot like work and had taken much joy out of me doing pixel art. For the last few months, I had been busy but not as an artist. Hardly ever got any time to be working on any art worth creating. Anything that was done was vaguely mediocre.

Blah blah blah. Members left. Despite the crushing feeling of abandonment by my co-founder, part of my heart felt lighter. At least now there is chance for me to be happy with pixel art again. At the same time, it was actually a perfect time for a break that I think PIX3L_NATION needed. Early next year, I would resume my studies again so never would I ever permanently kill off PIX3L_NATION. No fucking way I'm laying off 2 years of hard work. Member's left but the group is intact or at least the name is so to speak. This will provide me time to reflect on what went wrong and decide the future of PIX3L_NATION. Getting shit sorted pretty much.

As it is right now, PIX3L_NATION will serve as my personal platform for pixel art once again but only 100% more "me" centric. No more team based projects and such though I'd give collaborations a maybe. I felt that I needed the time to recover in solitude. For now at least. Only now I'm making the declaration of PIX3L_NATION (as a group) on hiatus some what official. It's been quite a while since everybody left actually but I was taking my time to get things sorted out a little bit before talking about it. I'm not upset about the whole situation. I'm looking at it in the most positive way I could think of.

As for the members of PIX3L_NATION (new or old members), I am sure that none of them will ever stop doing art and I think that some of them will move on to bigger things in life. Majority of them are still students anyway.

November is the last month that I'd be in Penang. I would return to my hometown to make preparations for my studies next year. I wouldn't put much hope on how soon it will be but expect me to return with more pixel art soon (as well as PIX3L_NATION's return).