#art summary 2020

[meowuta]

я здесь не постила ни одного саммари, поэтому почему бы не ультануть сразу.

вот так вот и прошли 4 года от саи и фотошопа до клип студии, вперемешку с традишем. 4 года далеко не от начала моей деятельности как креатора и даже не только как художника, но 4 года, которые я осознанно потратила на рост в рисовании, дописывая диплом по инженерной специальности и пытаясь понять, как дальше вести свою жизнь. по сути даже пять, но у меня нет саммари за 2019, а еще там я сменила ник только к концу года и меньше понимала свой вектор в рисовании. довольно любопытно на это смотреть. я не бросаю рисование и не планирую прекращать развиваться, но просто мне кажется, что вряд ли я буду также продуктивна и запалиста, как в этот период. честно говоря, в прошлом году я уже устала и рисовала больше в своей зоне комфорта. но это не отменяет того, что штуки вышли крутацкие и в деталях я продолжала эксперименты! с каждым годом я больше удовлетворена своими работами и со всеми недостатками мне приятно на них смотреть.

тут должна была быть какая-то мотивационная штука, но я прихожу сюда раз в месяц и типа кого здесь вообще волнует мое мнение- но спасибо за лайки и что алгоритмы все равно вам подкидывают какие-то мои штуки, ура

[wolkigs]

2022 ^_^ + older summaries for comparison! thoughts below

2022: i think a shift happened around october-november 2022? that’s kind of where i realized 1) i want to be a storyboard artist for real actually 2) being an artist professionally / working in the animation industry isn’t completely impossible like i thought. everything slowly clicked mentally for a few months and then i developed an insatiable drive for learning and improvement haha :] i have a lot to learn still but i’m having fun along the way regardless!

older art: i do want to mention how crazy it is that i stopped drawing for over a year in 2019-2020??? i still remember how rough it was to start drawing again, it almost felt like i was drawing for the first time... i was really nervous and doubtful and my skills felt so unstable T_T. i can’t see myself choosing to “give up” drawing again; i love it too much now... there’s so much to do and learn!!! i’ve been drawing more this month than i was in most months in 2022 even LOL.

...i’ve learned to truly love drawing & learning & working to improve AND have built a healthy relationship with both my art itself and posting it online. im very grateful and so happy about it!! nowadays i don’t constantly wish i was better, i just wish i could draw all the time :}

[creatureschaos]

2020 was so long ago. I'm really proud of how far I've come as an artist and as a person since then!

If you're an artist, drop your 2020 summary or your favorite piece of art you did that year in the comments below, or reblog with it!

If you're a commissioner, do the same your favorite commission and the artist responsible!

[coyot3-bon3s]

Travels 5 years into the past via one big ass post

[vanderbander]

Hey hi hello it's been a minute! Twitter falling apart has scooted me over here once again. Let's kick it off with my art summary from... oh god, 2020. Some of the pieces you'll recognize, some you won't! But you get the idea haha. New things to come, though! Art dump ahoy!

[buboplague]

incredibly off year. struggled with art block, losing interest, demotivated, feeling aimless; my lowest output in a decade, and sad I'm starting off the new year in such a bad place. But the important thing is I didn't quit, I guess

[snowysaur]

2024 year in review/art summary. i realized i never made these for 2021-23 either so here's all of them. i think i haven't been drawing as much these past few years, oh well support me on: patreon | kofi | redbubble

[itty-bitty-sunshine]

Got bored and decided to take a shot at this

No wonder my wrist is a wreck from the pile of art I had to look through

[justlous-art]

✧･ﾟ: *✧･ﾟ:* art summary 2024

2021 | 2022

[dawnsies]

Since I've been jojoing it up lately, I figured I should bring my old Part 4 OC from 2020 back and revamp her

I first created her before CDDH was announced, so does that mean I technically predicted Hol Horse being in Morioh? ;P

[beeteal]

the big sum-up of 2024...2024 has been a lot! mostly good, some really bad, but otherwise im happy to make it through another year :^] past summaries and some more detailed thoughts below:

so 2024's been a really busy year for me - my first full year as a freelancer! started boothing at the behest of one of my good friends in march, and it was really fun! its been so wonderful being able to share my work with people, especially my comics. im really grateful in a way i cant encapsulate for the support ive had both online and offline for my work, and i can only hope it shows in the final products!

i don't like to get particularly personal on my socmed anymore, but ill admit the later half of the year has been hard. i wont get into it (its nothing serious!) , but im hoping ill have a lot less breakdowns next year :'^] and more importantly I WANT TO KEEP CREATING!! i have a few comic ideas im hoping to pursue this year, some fan projects and more original things!! yeah. here's to 2025 baybee

[qaanngi]

being economical and borrowing my art summary template from 2019 lol. notes under cut

I did want to do something similar to my 2020 art summary which had notes/thoughts on each digital piece baked into the image itself (and is also the prettiest lmfao) but I haven't been as proactive or even content since then sdfhsdkflds but I'm also of the opinion that artists should talk about their work, even if I still struggle to call myself one T_T

I met my monthly quota of one digital piece per month + one coloured sketch per month except October, which tends to be the month of exceptions since some sort of art challenge crops up. This year I opted to meme countdown loosely for Veilguard, and was the most free and loose I've been with drawing but also kind of burnt myself out a little on that front.

I do appreciate that there have been a few style experiments in the monthly things (March/Sept./Oct/Nov). I always found my style to be pretty generic but able to emulate other styles a little as a result. Except anime/manga evidently. But that means I can evoke different tones with different styles and do really left field stuff, which is always fun and leaves a lot of room for experimentation and a diverse body of work, which I prefer.

Managed to land LNY piece, which is a tradition I want to keep. I think my favourite piece is probably June's, the Lumine/Paimon/Osse/Scylla piece, which I referenced a screenshot because the location in-game was too pretty for me to not draw it. The Lumine/Girl With a Pearl Earring piece I'm pretty fond of, only because it was a genuine study of an old master, and I think it turned out well. The Lucanis minimalist piece is also a favourite, and it was me doubling down on the things I'm better at instead of trying to aspire to whatever the fuck I've been trying to do. Improve in some way I haven't defined yet, or operating on the notion that there is always room to improve (which is true and healthy to think), but also I guess a sense of dissatisfaction that my work is Objectively Broken in some way and desperately needs to be fixed. What's it like being content with your style and process?

The 2019 art summary had a template for Honourable Mentions since I actually managed to do more than one piece per month throughout the year (tho admittedly a lot of those were schoolwork). That's kind of been a struggle since 2021 for Reasons I still haven't fully recovered from, but I did manage a few extra things this year, chief among them the 19/20 Day Countdown mark for Veilguard, which I really wanted to do since I did one for Inquisition 10 years earlier, and I'll probably do one for the next Dragon Age game lol. I'd also like to probably redo the Inqusition one, and do full illustrations for both since I can actually draw backgrounds now. Something for 2025 I guess.

Others among the Honourable Mentions include a twt xlmi event piece I got a ton of "omg it's giving Sailor Moon + Tuxedo Mask" comments which makes it sound derivative as hell 🙃 The concept, was the moon (Lumine) and her night sky (Xiao). He is often associated with darkness and depicted looking at the moon pretty regularly. Also he is literally fading into black in the piece. My interpretation was that the night sky is quiet, and it darkens the sky so we can see the moon. The moon sits in the night sky's embrace. I actually quite like this one, the more I look at it. I've also used Giant Moon in the Middle of a Drawing a lot throughout the years, so that absolutely tracks. Maybe I should do one every year.

Other Honourable Mentions are my friend's commission (she was so patient with me), a noir Neve piece I did around September-ish too (was supposed to be a comic, might revisit the idea. I picked up reading comics again and was inspired to give one of my greatest inspirations a run - comic art, specifically the way they ink), and a quick lineless illustration for the xlmi zine I helped with.

For daily sketching, I only filled about 4-ish sketchbooks this year, all about 30-32 pages, but I've started to double up on pages so each is filled with more than one thing. Some sketchbooks were lazy in terms of what I did than others. Some were great, and had a lot of stuff where the things I practice (people in environments, action-oriented things, foreshortening, the bane of my existence) were abundant and pretty well executed. With the exception of one Lumine sketch that was so very in my own style that I really love and an adapted sketch of an OC, the favourites are all very action-oriented, and I'm glad. I really love the ones with Lucanis and Rook since there's genuine contact and an energy to them that feels very alive, which is something I've been working desperately towards, so it's nice to see it pay off. In a little daily drawing no less~

Around June there's a huge shift in subject and I all but ditched Gnshn immediately, which I think is healthy. I spent an inordinate amount of time in the months leading up to June and throughout with my daily sketches trying to force change my style to be more anime-esque since the gnshn fandom isn't particularly fond of western art styles, of which mine is painfully so. I have a lot of uncoloured sketches of Lumine that I'd like to get around to, but feel like a waste of time now. Leaving trying to make it in the gnshn fandom behind has been good for me, and it's been really nice to go back to the shit I love, which is just fights and blood. It's funny, since I ended my Cybird Ikemen run with swords and blood to jump into soft, cute shippy art for xlmi only to return to swords and blood.

Appropriately, I started my art blog ages ago for my silly little Dragon Age doodles, and I've returned to that. So: thanks, Veilguard. I hope I'm still fixated on you throughout all of 2025 because I have a loooot of ideas. And hopefully the patience and skill to get them out there.

[varilien]

welp that's a wrap for this year ig. it's funny i think this year would have been another oops all trigun except that whenever i got really super busy FAR too busy to make trigun art i did usually end up doodling something else lmao

december's spot is @stardvst-diving's lysithea :)

[lullabyashes]

Summaries for the past 5 years!

I've improved quite a bit over the years, even if I've improved less than I would have hoped by now. (disclaimer: I'm very hard on myself when it comes to being good at things.)

Here's to another 5 years full of art and learning!

[anntova]

My summary of art

I have been drawing since 2018 and am very glad that every year I am improving my drawing skills

[angeat]

5 years of summaries :)

welcome back yuya comp year TWO