Woo yeah, baby!! Woo!!! Happy new year, my friends! Hope previous one was treating ya'll somewhat nicely! I know for a fact shit's been getting rougher and rougher for everyone around the world in various degrees, so all I can hope that this new year will bring some joy to us... Something about those arbitrary numbers that hold no value outside of the human world that just keep on giving hope, ya'know!
I haven't realized how little I've been doing for my 'art/animation' career for the past... few years, maybe? Hell I checked my previous news posts on here and they've been getting written less and less as time went on, which honestly I've been meaning to make a change on that for a bit now. Thing's been hard as of late for me, hell, I FINALLY finished my animation course last year, but man did it hit me with a MASSIVE burnout.. ! (To be fair, I'm suspecting I've been burntout for a few years already, just had to pull it through for university and grade's sake lol) (shit got me stressed, my friends..)
But I don't want to #traumadump in #general here, so to lighten up the post I'll start the year with my 2024 art summary that I've sloppily compiled yesterday, haha. Surprising thing is that I've had something done for each month! Which isn't new, every art summary I make always have something for all the boxes, it's just 2024 was really. and I mean, Really rough. Guess so is life! Anyways, here's da summary ---
Art Summary template by WolverWM on deviantArt!
In text summarization, I think this year I learned to accept my chaotic nature as an artist. Been seeing this advice that 'social media algorithm (or whatever) prefers consistency' which is great to those who're able to have that! However, I soon realized.. I hate trying to go for a consistency. Cuz I have none of it! Been having so much more fun just doing whatever with my art, that's how it makes it much more fun for me! Alternatively, I probably got sick and tired of doing lineart, for the past few months been coloring in my sketches instead lol.
All in all, despite all the stress and all the negatives of the world, I'm just happy I didn't lose my love for art. Was really close to it actually! For 2025 I'm really hoping to get back on animating and posting cartoons again :') Been really excited to get back to it once I've rested (animation course is NOT a joke) (even if mine really fucking felt like one LOL) and hey, I even got some unfinished works that I hope to get done soon... Watch out, 2025, I'm stupidly optimistic today, so that means this year is going to be my year... I pray for it, at least!
Thank you all who bother to read my silly journal/news posts here, I just really like to yap and hey, maybe this will help someone to get inspired again, I don't know! Don't think any of what I've said here will be anything of value to anyone, but it is a good diary entry to look back on and compare to whatever the hell happens in the future! Happy 2025, stay safe and stay awesome!!