Happy New Year everyone! (writing this 25 minutes prior it actually hitting 12am mark lmao)

Hope everyone's doing positive, and if not -- hope this new year will find you well and be kinder to ya

Like last year, I did a year summarization of my works, things I'm proud of and resolutions I'd like to do. However, don't think I have anything from resolutions I could do; after all, in September I'll be in 4th year of my animation course! No time for myself, only working on the grad film!

As for now, I can appreciate the little time I have to even make this journal in the first place haha

Starting off, my art summary I compiled this year 👇👇

In comparison to previous year I've decided to work more on rendering my pieces a bit differently, using cel shading as a base but then painting over for a nicer look! I'd say, last few months I may not have been as active but I did make some cool works [:

Last year I did top fives, so I can do a little info dumping on each of them, maybe it'll be useful for me in the future, who knows!

Tea Party

This piece was inspired by some old old animations I used to watch as a kid and I remember loving the cute interactions people have drawn with Marine and Tails Doll. Especially since as a kid I thought Tails Doll was really scary so there was some comfort in knowing he's not that evil, haha (sadly I never read any comics, so I know almost nothing to Marine otherwise.. fake Sonic fan I know u_u )

Tried to go all out on backgrounds and I think that's where I realized I kinda enjoy drawing em!

Koraidon and Miraidon

My love for Pokemon was fading away, but the trailers made me appreciate the designs. Was drawn literally hours after the trailer dropped and I had no proper references nor their official arts to help me with, didn't help the trailers were all crunchy so didn't notice Miraidon's eyes were actually pixels! Guess makes sense, he is from the future after all

I really like how it turned out overall, in all honesty, even if I have some mistakes!

Bees

I remember I had so much to do in uni at the time and decided to destress by drawing realistic bee on a Minecraft bee plush lmao later got the plush on my birthday, fun fact! Not much else to say except this piece sticks out the most in my art summary

Impmon and the boys

So, before that I had a Hawkmon line I've drawn, but this one sticks out a lot all things considered. I believe, this is where I decided to use more 'painting' style with my normal shading, really love how the front Yaamon looks here!

Big Punch

A good way to end the year with this piece, drew this inbetween my uni works and in all honesty? As quick as it was, it looks really good. I miss drawing dynamic poses and I really want to do more pieces with this character just for that reason :'] Maybe in the future I'll have more creature/monster characters that can battle -- who doesn't love a good battle piece?

Now that that's done, what can I say about animations... not much this year, but there's definitely some thing!

Clusterhug

A gift I made for @DearDecay on his birthday with both of our OCs Alton and Kai (it's on 11th January, go say happy birthday then!!) which took me about 4 months. Really visible that it's a bit rushed due to time constraints and the fact I was visiting my family in December-January, but I'm happy I managed to finish it on time!

Sadly, it has the copyright song so it goes against Newgrounds policies. I promised to not do those anymore, though, only did this one cuz the song means a lot to both me and DearDecay and it's linked to the characters' relationship [:

Chapter 3 ending/ Rudy Deltarune Dies

The only thing I can say on this.. hehe funnie :) Done in less than 3 hours, thought it was a brilliant 1 second idea

Video Game Essayist Apology Video

Don't think anyone else was looking forward to see this one the most but I was, my proudest work this year, the work that got FRONTPAGED (most honorable badge of all Newgrounds for someone who usually misses with 'toons), aside of Clusterhug that obviously had more effort put into, this one came to me on a stroll and really had to write it down somewhere; eventually leading to me animating the entire idea. Based on some YouTubers who'd make homophobic jokes and take no shame in them but then shit and cry when they accidentally make fun of Persona fans (the strongest nation, obviously) lmao

I actually have more of him in the works, not to spoil much but the next video is Pass or Smash, literally started when it was hot and new but unfortunately didn't have time to continue :' ) It's half way done, really hoping in 2023 it'll drop.

Can He?

And what a way to end the finished animations than with another Alton and Kai content! This one came to me in the middle of the night when I've had forgotten to take my meds for a week at that point. Don't know how or why I got so much motivation to finish it, but guess it's the raw power of ADHD that lead me through this piece. I still think it's an underrated work of mine!

And I think that should be it, folks.

Thank you so much for reading through till the end, I'm not good at making small journal posts, I'll be honest, but it's great to keep these things written somewhere. Sorta like a diary :-)

Again, hope everyone's doing well, wishing 2023 to be kind to all and take care of yourselves! (finished writing 35 minutes after new years)