Ooh lookie another year has gone by! *throws only a handful of confetti because I'm sick and don't want to clean up a big mess*

Sure is some way to celebrate a birthday, but I'm not the celebratory type so it truly doesn't matter much. I just came off of an exhausting work shift the night prior and I'm off today as of writing this, so I'm not complaining and recovering in bed nice and comfy with good food and warm drinks :3

Anyhoo, as with last year I couldn't be happier with the progress I've made as an artist. I made an Art Summary 2025 post here which you can read if you want. I have my thoughts about each piece I chose to represent their respective months, so feel free to read it. It's a long one, and my thoughts are mixed with self praise and criticisms. I mentioned in last year's update post that I wanted to start drawing backgrounds, and I have! Granted, they're almost all broken stone walls as they're my what I find comfortable drawing in creating an actually good result, but hey it's still a work in progress. The Octopath Traveler-style artwork is something I'm striving for and figuring out ways to make it (even more) uniquely my own. I did notice my art style has shifted a bit away from Yoji Shinkawa, and I guess that's going to continue now that I'm putting effort into studying backgrounds and different ways to paint. I do still want to do Shinkawa studies, at least, just to stay loose given how gestural his drawings are :3c

Last thing I should mention is commissions! My job is keeping me quite busy and physically/mentally exhausted, so unfortunately I can't finish anywhere near the amount of completed artwork as I used to. I'll have to update my Comm Info sheet and create some kind of wait-list or figure out something that works.

Anyways, that's about it for now, I think. My art output may be slowed down but I have no intention to stop :D