CONGRATS YALL WE MADE IT! 2021 was turbulent as heck - in 2019-2020 I felt a bit *yawn* with my art,

CONGRATS YALL WE MADE IT! 2021 was turbulent as heck - in 2019-2020 I felt a bit *yawn* with my art, but I’m starting to enjoy my art direction again!! ToT)/ thanks for supporting me throughout 2021!! and I hope I can draw more of what I’m passionate about in 2022! I want to say, let’s not hope for a “better 2022”, hope for a 2022 where we are all stronger. under the cut: my art summaries from 2010-2020 + my thoughts summing up the year. 2010-20132014-2015. 2015 had some really great improvement & works!! what a year to be proud of if I do say so myself2017 was a BLAST2018-2020. at art school —I’ve been doing digital art for UH. 11 YEARS NOW?!?!?? and it’s been a tradition of mine to make an art summary each year, I always look forward to compiling everything, even if the year isn’t fruitful. it’s still so cool to see everything together.here are some bullet point takeaways from 2021 ‍♂️‍♀️ I posted this on twitter. since there’s no character limit on tumblr, I added some stuff here.- I was disappointed with my 2019-2020 summaries. I feel like I lost my artistic voice. a LOT of rushed art, trashed drawings. I only saw wasted potential. I struggled to throw anything in my portfolio.-  For years I unknowingly prioritized making quick “aesthetic art for twitter”, when I should have readied my portfolio and passion projects instead. It’s hurt my skills, portfolio, productivity - and taken me this entire year to realize and unlearn. Fanart that does well online =/= not necessarily portfolio ready.- I KNOW I can draw better than that. so I took 2021 to reset, take more breaks, and abandon content that no longer sparked joy… don’t want to beat a dead horse ya know?? I had to re-assess what kind of drawings would make me excited and keep the fire going.- This may be contentious and blunt LMAO - in the past I was delighted by the attention I got for romantic or ship art in particular, but that was an image I no longer wanted to be expected of me. I no longer wanted to associate with the toxicity that ensued online, and the assumptions others made of artists who drew ship content. I’m not purging it from my artistic repertoire entirely of course! but it won’t be like 50% of my work anymore haha.- Instead, I wanted to draw more niche fanart and originals, even though that wouldn’t get a lot of attention. Unpopular content will disappoint people and that’s just a hill I had to get over.- Trying to grow my audience this year on twitter was a NIGHTMAREEE and caused me a lot of stress. with every drawing a few new people arrived, but the same number of people would yeet. my follow count stayed the same the whole year! I wondered if my art stagnated or if it was because I was inactive or I should jump back to old fandom. But that’s a self destructive, toxic mindset to have. - so I had to step back and take a breather. I discussed the topic with some friends of mine and the general consensus is that this is more of a problem with twitter or instagram??? I assume it has something to do with the fact that follow counts are visible on those platforms.- I pushed back my writing my story and characters this whole time, but I’ve forgotten that was the reason I wanted to pursue art in the first place. It’s been really refreshing to revamp OCs. It makes me feel like I’m in high school learning how to draw for the first time.- in 2022 I want to go back to basics more and focus on things like depicting fabric & drapery, detail, anatomy & structure, expression & body language. I think a lot of my work lends itself to the “boring” side so I want to improve on conveying mood and a statement with my art. I’m not good at portraying expression or making something like. “visceral”. but I’ll do my best (๑•̀ㅂ•́)و^ mood going into 2022-  In 2022 I may be less active. who knows. but I’ll try to not worry about things like growing an audience/ unfollows/ my art being non ”aesthetic" HAHA. behind the scenes I’ll try my best to work harder and deliver pieces that I can be proud of! and if people like them then that’s a bonus!—Template credits:  2010: can’t rmb LMAO  2011: deviantart.com/dustbunnythump… 2021: I used this template for many yrs bc it’s simple, and the allotted space is perfect, not too narrow that you can’t see the artwork. お借りしました！ありがとうございます pixiv.net/en/artworks/15… -- source link

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