Jan. 1st, 2023 at 3:25 PM
maybe i'll try (again) to commit to updating this more often. tho, tbh, it HAS been updated more frequently this last year than the last decade i think lol
tony made a lemon pigasaurus for this year, to join our previous lemonpigs. he also made a 'tangerine ghost' and i took photos with our other ghosts so he could post it on twitter
accomplisments so far this year: i washed some dishes, i cleaned my desk a bit
i want to try and get a new computer chair this year so i can be more comfortable at my desk and maybe stream and shit. i'd like to get a bigger desk or maybe reorganize my space a little? idk. i wanna start riding my bike more (and save money if i don't need to take the e-bikes and scooters lol). i also want to try bookbinding (more than i fucked around with it once at least) just b/c i wanna make little books and shit idk use all those pretty papers and shit i've had lying around for the last decade
gonna try to see about getting a furry track going at oddmall locally - the owner loves furries and the community here has been thriving recently, so i think it'd be a good option for local folks in terms of something convention-like, but not a full blown con. a friend also asked if i wanted to help do volunteer stuff in the games room at matsuricon in cbus - i'm not really big into anime anymore, but i DO like staffing, so i said i'd give it a shot just for the option to futz around somewhere new. won't have to blow a bunch of money on travel/hotel/registration, either, apparently, which is nice
2022 art summary - i was initially bummed about how little personal work i did this year. and, like, i did a lot of commissions! a lottttt of booty icons, especially. but i also did some bigger pieces and have been working on some ref sheet comms and another multi-part comm kinda thing, as well
2022 artist wrapped - this, however! made me feel a little better. i do really like that wip thing of ancyn! it's not polished or 'done', but it's something i enjoyed fucking around with a lot
2022 sketches - i know a posted a bunch of these in a previous entry, but here's all??? of them from this last year. a couple below, as well, but i have to remember that even if this stuff isn't ~finished~ and ~polished~, it's still art! i still did stuff! more than five personal pieces! i can always go back and do something else with them! and i don't tend to have too many junk sketches or stuff that i don't care for anymore, with how i utilize references. i may not finish a rough sketch, but i'm generally content enough with it if that's all the further it gets
some sketches slapped on some textures for funsies - feel like i might start doing this again just to share sketches more than just screenshot from whatever ipad app i'm working in lol
leomaris ref - this was one of the big refs i've been working on over the year and especially over the last month to get it finished up b/c i could finally see the finish line lol. grey is regular colors, the other are alternate colors for the character. this was a lot of fun to work on and also a fun challenge b/c the commissioner only had one or two visual references at the time, but a LOT of inspiration material and was good at describing what they wanted. i especially like the chibi and the portrait, myself
i hit 100 books read this last year!
📖 Lore Olympus: Vol. 3
obviously since i'm three volumes in, i've been enjoying this lol
📖 Numb to This: Memoir of a Mass Shooting
this was REALLY good - a very introspective read from the eyes of a school/mass shooting survivor
📖 Anti/Hero
this was cute! one of the substitute psa's recc'd it to me the other night when we were closing together. a quick read with a lot of characterization. art is cute and the whole thing was pretty fun
📖 Children of the Woods
also read this the other night at work lol - i think there's a lot of interesting plot here that wasn't explained lol. but i liked the way the story flowed and especially how amber's storyline went down
📖 The Wolf Suit
a cute picture book of a sheep making a wolf suit to venture into the woods to get berries
📖 You Can't Kill Snow White
a teen picture book! i actually requested the purchase for this and the youth services person who does the ordering emailed me and thanked me for the cool recc to the collection! i liked the story, told from the viewpoint of the queen wanting to murder snow white
i'm also weeding the children's picture book collection at work for the children's librarian (who is out on maternity leave until march), and while doing that i've been reading cute stuff i spot. also helped me bridge the gap on my goodreads books read this last year to 100!
