This is quite an important, long post and I’d like for anyone who is interested in AskOriginsRayman to read it at least a little.

I might be shutting down OriginsRayman. No hiatuses, no long breaks, no “I’m busy and I’ll update later.”.

I feel as though I’ve run my course with this blog as an artist and the golden age of it’s lifespan seems to have gone and passed a long time ago. I’d love to keep updating it, but at this point I’m just forcing myself to due to how much guilt I’ve had previously for saying I was going to make updates and never did.

I wanted an art style I could do fast and still looked alright. Doing this allowed me to actually post without it being too much of a time sink for me and yet it still let me keep my promise that I’d eventually do updates again.

I’ve been updating for about a solid two months now and it’s given me enough time to think on what I’m going to do next. And… well… I’ve already made plans. Don’t get me wrong, I adore Rayman and love drawing him, but after drawing him for two years straight I’m starting to feel almost like I’m required to draw him. It’s not a good feeling. I feel limited, I feel like I can’t draw artwork and that I can only draw one character.

My main concern with this blog was updating it consistently, the secondary was to keep things spiced up. And I can’t do that no matter how many times I brainstorm for it.

Going back to something I said before. The ‘golden age’ for Origins Rayman is passed and that makes me sad. It means at this point I’m a redundance, that I’m just here to be here and not for a specific reason. I don’t fill a gap and never really have. I always sort of felt like the alpha male in Rayman blogs. I know it’s very ignorant of me and I’m sorry. I just always felt this urge of importance and it made me so happy because I actually felt like I meant something for once.

Now I feel like I’m beating a dead horse and I don’t want to do that anymore. I appreciate everyone who actually does/did stick around and continues to enjoy my work for what it was. Heck, even some of my posts got 30+ notes. And that is still a lot to me. My usual goal for notes was around 20 per post, at least that’s what I’d come to get on average. So 30+ was a whole ton more to me.

Still, thank you to everyone who has stuck with me during OriginsRayman’s lifespan. I’ve met so many amazing people and I’ve done so many amazing things because of you guys. I owe everything I’ve done to this point up to the people who kept pushing me in the right direction.

This time I feel like going in a different direction and I’m afraid it doesn’t include OriginsRayman. Some people may wonder the relevance the drawing has to this important post. The relevance is that this is probably my next step in tumblr.

I love doing ask blogs, it’s the main reason I’m on tumblr and it’ll probably continue to be. So the next logical step for me was to make an ask blog on a character I loved and would love to do stuff for. The only character that came into my mind was Iggy Koopa from the Mario series. So after some design and thought, I made the blog in potential preparation for what I’m going to do next. This will probably be my next ask blog after OriginsRayman. AskIggsworth.

I’m not going to shut down the blog. I’m not going to shut OriginsRayman down completely. Everything will still be up here for people to view and for anyone to see. That’s never going to change, I’m never going to permanently delete a blog no matter if it’s active or not. Who knows, maybe in a year or two’s time I might want to return to my closed blogs. (Don’t count on it though.)

Still, I will make an official post to when this blog is no longer going to be updated, be it a couple days or a month or something. I will tell you when I’m leaving and it’s not at this moment, right now. I’m just saying what is going to happen in the near future. If you’ve read this entire thing I commend you so much and I’m so so sorry for the ridiculously long post. This blog has just been so important to me that I couldn’t make my thoughts any shorter. Thank you to everyone who follows AskOriginsRayman and thank you to anyone who will continue to follow my art after OriginsRayman 'dies’.