#your a kallisto veteran if anyone remembers January NSJXJF

[prince-kallisto]

I’ve been seeing this template going around, and I wanted to try for myself…it was just nearly all Crowley’s, except for May 😭😭😭 Gidel I love you, but my streak!! 💥💥 /lh

Looking at all of this made me feel really surprised…My first year of digital art! Thank you so much to everyone for your support and kind words on my works 😭💕💕💕💕🐦‍⬛ Crowley really is a muse…

(Ramble below🐦‍⬛)

I can see my awkwardness with trying to figure out different digital brushes in my first months- Im still a noob with all these digital settings 🤣 But I think that experimentation is good- my most recent piece was admittedly rather rushed. I think I could’ve pushed it more with brush textures and rendering. So I’d like to keep that in mind for the new year, since I feel slightly more comfortable with how digital drawing works.

This was a tumultuous year for my art 💦 Before starting digitally, I had some nerve issues that made traditional art became severely uncomfortable, even painful at times. But with digital art, I found there were settings that could make pen pressure more comfortable. Drawing on a screen was much more forgiving that what I could do traditionally, with lots more shortcuts too. After figuring out a lot more accommodations for myself, I can draw again! 😊

Most recently, I’ve been hard on myself for not feeling skilled enough in art. But to be honest with myself, I do very little study and experimentation- anything I learned has been accidental this entire year! 😅 Everyone I admire puts so much work and study into their craft- how embarrassing it is to forget that sometimes 🙈💕 So my goals are to be kinder to myself, and to put in actual study of color, poses, etc. I think it’s easy to be swept away by the incredible work of others. But when I made this summary, I thought about how a year back, I couldn’t even draw or even write traditionally for days or weeks at a time. In retrospect, I think I need to slow down and be more mindful 😆

I couldn’t exactly show it in the summary, but I am so proud of my accomplishments of finishing and published my first animatics! Three, so far! :0 It’s truly a dream come true in every way! 😊

I’m still trying to discover what sort of art I want to do. Recently, I’ve been taken with a painting-like style, but Im trying to figure out what direction I want with it…So my goals for the new year aren’t at all defined, since I want to discover things along the way naturally 😊 But here are some goals I have:

-Do color studies, study some fundamentals

-Participate in a zine(s?)

-“Huevember” (I don’t know what term to use Ahahxhf- but I want to try to experiment with differing colors for sketches or pieces, but not in a daily-challenge type of way. Color theory in general is a big goal this year)

-Be more kind and patient towards myself and draw what I love💥💥💥

-Try and take more breaks between artworks 💦

If you read this far, please take this borb for your journey ☺️ This has been a whole year of learning art- and Crowley’s design BABXHDH. I’m still not able to depict his handsomeness 💥💥💥 I need another year of training then (● ˃̶͈̀ロ˂̶͈́)੭ꠥ⁾⁾ 🐦‍⬛🐦‍⬛🐦‍⬛🐦‍⬛