I thought last year I made the Art Summary post in January but I played myself. Anyways, Happy New Year!
I figured in early 2023 that I have a difficulty differentiating "want" with "have to". It's a real piece of tangle that became alarmingly obvious in the last months, between end-September to spectacularly turn into an aggressively-flashing-sign in December. I found more balance than I ever have to this date in the first half and by losing it in the second I can confirm what made it work, which is a big win. I am entering 2024 determined, carrying my worries and feeling nervous, but I don't feel desperate. At least, not in art..! For the future.. the pov might heavily rely on my dopamine levels and Vitamin D deficiency.
I drew a lot this year! The difference between sketching and drawing/painting grows in my folders but I've consistently for 2 years kept a "warmup" folder which also grows with a satisfactory level of diligence and fun. I taught myself to draw decent hands (still struggling when they are closed or.. doing more things than fingers being spread-out to show "I am a hand"). I also did a lot of new things!
::Quick Summary
January: launched an enamel pin ks campaign || February: drew a lot of アキ天, zine work & made my first home-made sticker-sheets🍓|| March & April: chibi-style exploration, SK8 sticker-sheets, sketchbook challenge and campaigned another special-merch collaborative project (」*´∇`)」 || May: Convention time! ..and final zine work for the year ( ̄▽ ̄)ゞ || June & July: busy with the ks & packing orders || August: r e s t ♥ (with the best beans! I miss you all!!) || September: revisions, file-sorting, wrap-up commissions, picking up my projects again || October: online-shop run, comic-drafting, life gets busy || November: life is on fire, paperwork, learning to study (and succeeding) but getting tired, trying my best to keep on drawing!! || December: burnout caught up, Christmas cards give me life (*˘︶˘*).。.:*♡, escaped to the mountains, pet a lot of cats
Thank you for an adventurous year 🌱
Wishing everyone all the best for the coming one ♥
Fun facts:
I've done a decent amount of work for myself and I plan on doing more! I keep having the difficulty of working out some boundaries for myself but it's improving.
This is not a resolution but if by the end of the year I have not sorted out my files, that's it I'm deleting them...! (bold statement)
Feb-Mar-April I discovered The Pudding Club and GOON and their music gave me so much energy! This is one of my favorite songs and makes me do a little dance every time I hear it~
What steadily led me to burn-out by December was denying myself wind-down time, daily, for four months (if not more). I remember feeling anxious in Jan - April for making so much work and still going. "Can it really be this good? Is this normal??". But the seedling sprouted and I took good care of it, despite my worries. I intend to keep taking care of it with more diligence. Sleep and food are necessities, and so is play.
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my favorite anime thats totally not a shakespearean style tragedy masquerading as a magical girl show
(happy b-day madoka 💕)
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oh no.... i peaked 5 years ago
template!
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Transparent Art Summary template! Free to use!!
Was having a struggle with the premade ones so i made my own outta spite! Hope yall like it!! Anyone can use it!
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Happy New Year! 🎉
a lot of my personal art that I've done this year was sketchy, messy traditional art. here's what I could find that wasn't that lol
some art goals for 2023:
- more traditional art, painting, multimedia
- experiment more with composition, texture, color
- finish my current sketchbook, start a new one
- adjustable standing desk for my workspace
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Accidentally left my yearly redraw for the last day of the year, oopsie daisy
[Image ID: A digital drawing of a white girl with curly brown hair in two pigtails. Her hair has pink, blue and purple streaks, along with two white hairpins in a cross formation. Her eyes are blue and she is staring pensively off into the distance. She is wearing gold earrings, a choker with flowers hanging from it, a loose green sweater and a black top. She has freckles. Behind her is a halo with a stormy sea and cherry petals. Placed over the image is the artist's signature, Silverior968. / End ID]
Previous versions:
[Image ID: A collage of previous versions of the drawing from 2018 to 2022/ End ID]
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A colorful year of art 🌈
I've been struggling to draw these last few months but looking back to everything I made in the first half of the year, I'm still really happy with the art I made this year - I'm working on a full reflection blog post I'll share soon!
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i love doing these its like carbon dating my brain worms
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2023!
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Im new to the fandom so i made my own art meme!
Read More has blank copy for anyone else to use! ♥
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Iskars said “chaotic” and we agreed ✧˖°. Rooting-out-the-stakes year~
Who would have thought I finished it this time before the year’s end..!
I wasn’t sure how to title the 2022 summary, a lot of things happened (and keep happening) that have me both in a state of wonder and stress (and excitement and fear- it’s all over the place). In the end I feel this is the best way to label it, as it was my major highlight.
I honestly thought there is no way I can fill this year’s summary but gave it a shot regardless. Super surprised there were works I wanted to include but didn’t..! My priority was to highlight the works that were the most emotionally-charged with memories of each month. (I think it’s the same pattern I followed last year :3)
::Quick Summary!
January: Loads of zine work, making merch for the first time★ || February: zine work vol.2 || March, April: Merch design vol.2 || May: Commissions, hand/shoulder therapy, healing time..~ || June: taking it easy, healing vol.2 + konvid || July, August, September: Pulling the weeds out {thank you♥} || October: Mostly traditional, somewhere in the sea... || November: learning & applying new things, heavy admin, kickstarter, back to physio (lol) || December: heavy-lifting in kickstarter & wind down with warmups, akiangel brainrot & doing stretches~
::Highlights: merch making⭐, perseverance🌱💧, be snail🐌🍀
Thank you for an amazing learning year..!
Wishing you all the best for the coming one ♥✨💓
Fun facts:
in my illustration folder I only have 1 (one) illustration finished for 2022. New record?!
Starting in August I got heavy into visual-key (thanks catten~) and it was the only genre I listened to (thank you for the suggestions sush TT w TT♥♥♥) until November..!
At the time (Aug) I was also listening to “Time management for mortals” by Oliver Burkeman and I HIGHLY reccommend it. (I still haven’t finished it entirely, I take my time to listen to each episode and take notes as I go, but it’s really, really good...)
October was heavily traditional sketchbook filled but I happened to draw 3 times digitally so I combined those instead for the art summary. Figures intruding everywhere..!!
I re-read CSM in October because I saw an Akiangel zine and I thought “I want in..!”. I didn’t know this ship was a thing! It’s been doing some serious heavy-lifting for my mood the last couple months. I am obsessed.
I said I’ll take a sabbatical from zines in 2023 to work on my own. I lied. I AM A CLOWN.*
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The year of analog experiments
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Summary of art for 2022!^^
Slowly improving! Getting there ^^ Haha. Tackling a lot more backgrounds lately and trying to focus on bettering lines XD Looking forward to seeing next year's improvement ^^
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I had a really hard time choosing what art I wanted to use to display what I've done this year! I've been trying a lot of new things, even though I've mostly drawn the same pool of characters (dnd took over my brain) and I had a lot of fun pushing out of my comfort zone!
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