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2024 was a year of exploration 🧭
you may have noticed i didn't make as many "classic trigaroo" style pieces (highly rendered pokemon pics)
it's not that i grew tired of them, but i felt a looming stylistic stagnation and the higher calling to explore the universe of styles and possibilities. I think every style is a set of limitations, so the only way for me to feel artistically free would be to be good at many styles, from cartoony and quick to realistic, or else i will always feel the grass is greener in another style.
that's not to say i don't want to have my own style. i think having one is unavoidable! some people claim to recognize me in my expressionistic/surreal work even if it seems to differ absolutely from my normal stuff. i think this unavoidable soul signature is a beautiful thing and very human.
earlier this year i often responded to "r u drawing rn?" with "no, i'm going through some private emotional struggles and don't feel like doing anything uwu". the truth is i went through romantic pursuit problems </3 (rare) so i posted, mainly to scraps, what may go down in history as some of my first vent pics XD (i didn't post the ventiest of doodles). during this period i focused mainly on my comics which i consider to be my main duty, and i mainly went on based on what i had already planned since i didn't have much energy to come up with new ideas. All these feels only increased my desire to be able to express myself through art without limits and become better at it.
in retrospect it's quite nice having gone through such diverse and intense feelings and learning
also I slowed my job searching down a lot during this, which may have changed my future (more on this later)
after all that i returned to my usual pace and continued expanding my exploration. this year i've done photography, a game, fake crafts, pixel art, real papercraft, long animations, short animations, png sorcery, human portraits, irl painting and much more!!
i've also embraced my nature as a storyteller by having 3 comics going on at the same time so i can disappoint the enthusiast of each with their release speed XD. I'll try to pick up the pace and continue trying to be fast like sonic, but just now i realized i made 94 posts this year so it's not as bad as i thought!
I find it crazy that I'm in chapter 3 of post-fable already, drawing events that for more than 1/3 of my life were just vague ideas. i'm very eager to continue.
also i don't plan to abandon disma's lair
already got some preliminary plans for next stories I want to tell =·)
the theme of exploration is also present in my endless browsing, which i still do almost every night. I have visited over 21000 furaffinity galleries this semester O.O
it's hard to tell how much this has passively trained my brain to summon furry images i like but it has taught me some concrete things about my taste, here're some unexpected ones:
• i love sketches. even a good little doodle can easily be a best find of the night
• i continue to appreciate more and more originality over technical execution (even being more fond of noob art, in a "every good artist draws the same, but every bad artist is bad in their own way" kinda way sometimes XD, also they tend to be messier which ends up being accidentally more expressive or cute)
• celshading is not my enemy.
• the best pics tend to be sfw!?
• pony artists often slay 🎠
• portraits are cool. many many pics could be improved by cropping them into a portrait or showing less (composition is tricky)
over time my dedication to art has only grown, as has my skill and confidence that i could make a living on it, also i grew somewhat disilusioned with the idea of a traditional job, and so on the fateful day i finally got a job offer i was expecting... i said that i was no longer searching =·) had it happened a month earlier i would've taken it!
I'll never know if this was the best choice since I only live out one version of my life, but since I started taking commissions it has been working out so far! (those who've read this far are rewarded with knowing i take them in the post-fable discord server :3) I'm still figuring out how to best promote my patreon and stuff but I have faith a glorious future awaits. This also means I'm now sometimes moved by market forces which should be good for most consumers of my content whose demand i must supply
also some friends forced me to consume anime. this has actually taught me a lot about dynamic posing and using all the tools at your disposal (perspective, anatomy, background) to emphasize emotion. perhaps a subtle influence can be noticed in my recent pics!
the year ends with a return to the classics like the happy dog and bunny couple :D 🐶🐰
as for my 2025 personal art plans: finish deep love (1 page left XD), start some quicker-style short stories, progress a lot in disma's lair and post-fable, continue exploring some fun styles and pushing expresiveness, delve more into animation, do more epic highly-rendered standalone pics, break chains that keep me from realising my full potential, make people laugh and cry and cum, surprise myself and have fun!
I don't know how to phrase it well but I feel like a better artist is already inside me trying to figure out how to come out 🙀
I hope we have a good year >:·) full of personal growth, ethical decisions and unexpected cool plot twists
2️⃣🇰2️⃣5️⃣ LETSGOO 🎉
you may have noticed i didn't make as many "classic trigaroo" style pieces (highly rendered pokemon pics)
it's not that i grew tired of them, but i felt a looming stylistic stagnation and the higher calling to explore the universe of styles and possibilities. I think every style is a set of limitations, so the only way for me to feel artistically free would be to be good at many styles, from cartoony and quick to realistic, or else i will always feel the grass is greener in another style.
that's not to say i don't want to have my own style. i think having one is unavoidable! some people claim to recognize me in my expressionistic/surreal work even if it seems to differ absolutely from my normal stuff. i think this unavoidable soul signature is a beautiful thing and very human.
earlier this year i often responded to "r u drawing rn?" with "no, i'm going through some private emotional struggles and don't feel like doing anything uwu". the truth is i went through romantic pursuit problems </3 (rare) so i posted, mainly to scraps, what may go down in history as some of my first vent pics XD (i didn't post the ventiest of doodles). during this period i focused mainly on my comics which i consider to be my main duty, and i mainly went on based on what i had already planned since i didn't have much energy to come up with new ideas. All these feels only increased my desire to be able to express myself through art without limits and become better at it.
in retrospect it's quite nice having gone through such diverse and intense feelings and learning
also I slowed my job searching down a lot during this, which may have changed my future (more on this later)
after all that i returned to my usual pace and continued expanding my exploration. this year i've done photography, a game, fake crafts, pixel art, real papercraft, long animations, short animations, png sorcery, human portraits, irl painting and much more!!
i've also embraced my nature as a storyteller by having 3 comics going on at the same time so i can disappoint the enthusiast of each with their release speed XD. I'll try to pick up the pace and continue trying to be fast like sonic, but just now i realized i made 94 posts this year so it's not as bad as i thought!
I find it crazy that I'm in chapter 3 of post-fable already, drawing events that for more than 1/3 of my life were just vague ideas. i'm very eager to continue.
also i don't plan to abandon disma's lair
already got some preliminary plans for next stories I want to tell =·)
the theme of exploration is also present in my endless browsing, which i still do almost every night. I have visited over 21000 furaffinity galleries this semester O.O
it's hard to tell how much this has passively trained my brain to summon furry images i like but it has taught me some concrete things about my taste, here're some unexpected ones:
• i love sketches. even a good little doodle can easily be a best find of the night
• i continue to appreciate more and more originality over technical execution (even being more fond of noob art, in a "every good artist draws the same, but every bad artist is bad in their own way" kinda way sometimes XD, also they tend to be messier which ends up being accidentally more expressive or cute)
• celshading is not my enemy.
• the best pics tend to be sfw!?
• pony artists often slay 🎠
• portraits are cool. many many pics could be improved by cropping them into a portrait or showing less (composition is tricky)
over time my dedication to art has only grown, as has my skill and confidence that i could make a living on it, also i grew somewhat disilusioned with the idea of a traditional job, and so on the fateful day i finally got a job offer i was expecting... i said that i was no longer searching =·) had it happened a month earlier i would've taken it!
I'll never know if this was the best choice since I only live out one version of my life, but since I started taking commissions it has been working out so far! (those who've read this far are rewarded with knowing i take them in the post-fable discord server :3) I'm still figuring out how to best promote my patreon and stuff but I have faith a glorious future awaits. This also means I'm now sometimes moved by market forces which should be good for most consumers of my content whose demand i must supply
also some friends forced me to consume anime. this has actually taught me a lot about dynamic posing and using all the tools at your disposal (perspective, anatomy, background) to emphasize emotion. perhaps a subtle influence can be noticed in my recent pics!
the year ends with a return to the classics like the happy dog and bunny couple :D 🐶🐰
as for my 2025 personal art plans: finish deep love (1 page left XD), start some quicker-style short stories, progress a lot in disma's lair and post-fable, continue exploring some fun styles and pushing expresiveness, delve more into animation, do more epic highly-rendered standalone pics, break chains that keep me from realising my full potential, make people laugh and cry and cum, surprise myself and have fun!
I don't know how to phrase it well but I feel like a better artist is already inside me trying to figure out how to come out 🙀
I hope we have a good year >:·) full of personal growth, ethical decisions and unexpected cool plot twists
2️⃣🇰2️⃣5️⃣ LETSGOO 🎉
Glad your straddling the bad with so much good and new things.
Happy new year.
- Alfred Schnittke
He made up a technique called Polystylism, which according to him made his own stylistic voice thrive, before it was dormant with a specific modern style.
Here's to a good 2025! I look forward to seeing more art from you, and seeing what new things you try!
Honestly a good message for beginners who stress themselves about finding their art style :D
"portraits are cool. many many pics could be improved by cropping them into a portrait or showing less (composition is tricky)"
Oh, interesting point! In which way exactly can composition negatively affect an artwork?
statistically, i think it's very unlikely that the largest crop (containing 100% of the original picture) is the most aesthetically pleasing of them all. It's a bit similar to how movies have deleted scenes. i think it's best to crop until it's painful
composition affects a work's ability to be picked up from countless other small thumbnails. a good composition helps the picture tell whatever it's trying to tell. a good composition is pleasing and can even stand on it's own: you could have meaningless blobs of paint in a good composition and produce a better work than a garish overdetailed mess of recognizable objects in a bad composition
There might also be an analogy with music and instruments. It's nice to have a full orchestra and it sounds great, but sometimes adding more instruments would be distracting and you just want the epic saxophone solo xD
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I look forward to your materials as you progress the narratives you've been crafting.
Go on strong into 2025 and turn those thoughts into reality. We're behind you!
I'm loving your comics too, although I'm a little worried about where the NSFW ones are going.
I have to say, turning down your dream job is a very brave choice. I think I'd at least take it and see if it's everything I hoped it would be!
Okay, I think I might be overly negative here. Sorry, it's late and I'm tired, both of which makes it hard for me to be positive. I think I'm mostly focusing on the things that scare me... My apologies. Assume I'm excited for everything else!
I hope you have a really good 2025!