I've been good, other than facing a accident that had the possibility to financially ruin me, but rather it seems I survived it with just few bruises (metaphor, nothing happened to me but rather materialistic damage). I had to move away for sometime due to this and that's why I couldn't contact you when I saw you pop back up here. So no, no soreness :) Have you provided me reasons to be sore over though?! Freshen my memory, heh. I know it isn't my place to advice, but if this is a regular occurrence, perhaps you're being a bit too direct with people?

Oh, well you're being creative and that's what matters. Bit sad you aren't doing art anymore though, I think you were on to something with that wood burning stuff! But I get excited easily when it comes to art and creativity :) You did have your unique touch and view though! I remember a lot of stuff from you:

• The cartoon about depression (Unique display of hard topic that we rarely get to see)
• Your avatar works for others (those were superb in style, I digged the style a lot)
• Of course your painting for my sister (I still have a paper copy of it on my wall, will eventually print it out for myself also, I promise!)
• The wood burning pieces like the one with waves and the phoenix. (I think with practice these could become real selling pieces there in Canada, people love wood, right?)

And you're correct, one shouldn't be doing things just to post them to Steemit, rather treat it just as another place to share their stuff. Otherwise you just get burned out quick. There's always someone better than out there, technically at least, but that's a limited number of people and they can't all be doing the same stuff, the same way.

Have you searched online places to sell your work like Etsy?

Good that you're getting out there, refreshes the mind... Super short as shorter than shoulder length?! Redheads might be my favorite actually, good pick!