Right, felt like doing one of these this year and to assess my art as a whole. For Starters: How much did I do? 39 weekly* drawings, finished Battle with a Rogue, Usael Team 4 photo, Carol and Twirl as major projects, 9 blender drawings. 103 pages of Guardian of a Thousand Years, 18 pages (14 comic, 4 cast) for Pokehouse, 33 pages for Pokemon Usael, 102 pages for Werepix Chronicles, and 221 quick drawings. So total amount of art is 308 pieces of art (excluding the quick drawings, 529 if we include them).

Which is good, but at the same time I feel I've started dealing with a bit of burn out, and mostly only myself to blame for one particular project (will get to in a bit). But for the first half of the year I had a new drawing out every single week. Didn't get anything that first week of July and the rest kept bleeding into the beginning of the next week. But August was back to normal. By September 1 I was at 33 drawings before I went on a family vacation for a couple weeks. And then didn't draw anything for the weekly the entire back half of September. Drew 4 in October, then only drew one image in all of November and December each (and even the December one is iffy in that I didn't actually finish, but rather ran out of time).

And a good portion of that is workload. Before what would typically happen is that I would spend about 4-6 hours on Sunday drawing that week's drawing and if needed have that bleed over a bit onto the week to finish the drawing off. But this year I started getting to the point where I'd open photoshop and then just keep procrastinating. And I blame Guardian and Werepix for this. With Guardian I upped my workload to better reflect the end date I have in mind, but that required it bleeding into Sunday drawing time. And more importantly after the September vacation, I fell behind, so I would just slap additional steps to each week and try and catch up on Sunday. So I was using Sunday as comic-drawing day instead of "relax and just zone out on drawing" day. Add to that the fact that for a very long time I started to keep doing something in Werepix that would legitimately piss me off and make me not want to work on it, and then just kept doing it. And that is the number of panels. Like I was really getting burnt out whenever it was time to sketch the next page of Werepix because I'd set myself to having to draw a bunch of different pokemon on like 10 million panels, which takes a really long time to do. And then what do I do next time I get to the pre-sketch stage? "Oh, I think this one sentence prompt requires another 10 million panels." It got to the point where in anger at myself, there is a good portion of Part 7 where I forbade myself from using more than one panel on a page, even if a second panel could be useful. So when it came to Sunday, instead of zoning out drawing, I'd procrastinate because I didn't want to touch Werepix because it was burning me out. So I'd maybe do half an hour of drawing the entire day. And then because I had set myself that I needed to do work on those comics, I'd have to spend 5-6 hours each day, just keeping them from falling further behind. Which left no time to work on anything I'd genuinely just enjoy zoning out on. Thus less art last quarter. And for those wondering, it's also why I stopped writing. Because those two comics sucked the interest of anything creative out of me once I stopped drawing for the day.