#Year of art

[lilbeanz]

Wow... I really can't believe it's already 2023! What a year. What a crazy, crazy year it's been! 2022 was a fantastic year for me and I'll tell you why:

January- I was going through the motions, still just working on my ocs and my college coursework, pottering around aimlessly...

And then, February!

I began really *Pottering* about. That fateful Valentine's day really kicked things off... As it turned out, some people really liked my stuff. Especially my artistic take on a certain pointy nosed pureblood wizard.

In fact y'all liked it so much I carried on right through March and April too...

Started the Number Twelve series, carried on with the shenanigans, had fun answering asks...

Dipped out for a bit...

Came back full force in June just in time for Pride month!

And carried on all through July and August:

Then in September something very very special happened. I joined the drarry discord server- fell in love with it- made friends with some amazing people, even participated in Sudsfest!

I started writing my first fic in October.

By November I was ready to start publishing JoDT chapters weekly.

Wrapped the first book up by December, and participated in the owl post gift exchange.

I just can't really begin to describe how happy I am. It's been an incredible, fantastically magical year for me. I'm so grateful for this fandom, for all of you. Just... Thank you so much ❤️

Let's make 2023 just as magical✨️

[bamsara]

Woe is time for the yearly art template

My art looks signifigantly worse than it did last year tbh, I just didn't make as many rendered arts as I usually do this year huh?

[theartofjoydawood]

May the year of the dragon bring reinvigorated strength and lots of inspiration! ✨🐉

What’s your Chinese zodiac sign? Mine’s the 🐶…guess that explains my love for IG pups. Lol

[doomboy911]

Theme

Artist's choice (Train)

Prompt List

Mimic May

Commentary

Can't draw boats can draw trains I guess. I had a blending of two ideas here, first was the ghost train from Hey Arnold (cool kids will know what I mean) and the second was the demon train from Demon Slayer and then a sprinkling of the very suplexable ghost train from final fantasy so I worked off an image and began rendering. Would be a pain to get it into motion but I really like the end result. I also drew this beastie all on one layer.

@catbatart Hey I got no theme for tomorrow so how about you give me another thing to mimic

Palette Picked

[realspacejunk]

I quickly cobbled together a 2023 Year of Art in Inkscape lol. This year was not very productive on my end, having issues motivating myself to start a drawing, and having responsibilities eat away my focus, but next year will be better, with many more paintings and many more Pokemon characters! I might even start to experiment with prints. The first two have been ass because I chose the wrong paper, but now I know what to avoid. As people usually say, I hope you have a good slide into the new year.

It has been kinda hard to make this since my image formats are always so esoteric lol.

[iersei]

- 2023 Year of Art Summary -

[chacerider]

Another year gone, huh... It's been a bit crazy, but, I don't regret it 💖

[auro-cyanide]

Honestly I did more drawing then I expected, granted 99% is floating bust sketches...

I miss 2017

[alligaytorswamp]

it's overrr

[cxffncase]

2023 art summary!

[lethendralis-paints]

Час для мого підсумкового Year of Art посту!

Безліч цікавих приватних замовлень, декілька масштабних ілюстрацій для артбуків та книжок. Кілька благодійних проектів, а також особистих робіт для розвитку. Рік вийшов вкрай плідним, незважаючи на все.

А особливо мене втішило бути частиною активної і неймовірно талановитої Украрт спільноти. Я так пишаюся всіма, хто організовує спільні проекти і допомагає нашій сучасній творчості рости і розвиватись! Дякую вам всім!

Year of Art review - so many wonderful private and community projects this year alongside my main work. Super thankful to be part of the thriving Ukrainian art community. All these wonderful artists continue creating even amidst the ongoing russian invasion of Ukraine and economic uncertainty!

[coiled-dragonart]

I did a lot of art this year that I'm super proud of ♥ it was a really good Art Year for me ;v;

Shame my favorites are NSFW so I cant show them without censors or fancy cropping on here :/

[kil9]

this years favs :3

[loversgothic]

a year worth of art

[doomboy911]

Theme Animal (Tree Octopus)

Prompt List

Creature Codex Art Challenge

Commentary

See now this would've been perfect for yesterday. The tree octopus is a hoax whipped up in the 90s. For this piece I was thinking of rendering of a octopus actually up in a tree but instead decided to go for a travel poster design. I really like it and will be trying to make more in the future.

Palette Picked

[lilies-and-laughing-gas]

I'm so happy about all the cool peice I've pushed myself to make this year, even with art block looming over me.

Im especially proud that i fully participated in smile for me week, making a peice for every prompt no matter how small.

I'm also so happy I got into scrapbooking this year as its given me a place to experiment be more messy and loose.

These are some of my favourites from this year that I'm still really proud of:

Objecthead Kamal | Trippy eye | Amethyst deceiver | Dr. Habit | fly agaric | oc Lichen | Smoking Jon | Dr. Loboto