Uneasiness would be the word of 2025. After already few rough years in the world it would've been nice to get some respite - which wasn't meant to be it seems. Personally, there's been a looming fear of losing my job due to world economy being shit, some personal and family health issues, the leaders of the world not leaving much to believe in etc. Been feeling that a lot of people have become tired of the state of the world and have intentionally isolated due to this - at least, personally I've been avoiding social media a bit more this year and focused more on art and learning new stuff. I have inherently a strong belief in the good that comes via connecting and making friends, so building hope would be what I'd desire out of 2026.

During 2025, I've found a lot of peace in art - seeing people make art and express themselves through art. I feel, that in the middle of AI "revolution" a lot of people have found even more value in creation and appreciating towards the effort and expression put in. Over the years I've come to love the process of creating, and seeing something that I connect with on some level, even though I might not understand it at first, always stops me to think stuff like 'what was their mental state while making this', 'how did they manage to make the colors so vibrant', ' these are really nice shapes, maybe I could try something like this' etc. Feeling of a connection without words and giving me drive to continue and keep creating, that might one day be equal in it's own right. I can consider AI made art to look nice, but I cannot connect to it similarly as with art made by people due to lacking inherent intentions and deliberation.

Maybe because art was so important for my sanity, the year turned out to be the most productive of my existence with 16 pieces. Most art I've ever released during one year and it's been so fun to create what I can think of - even all the sketches that I never got around to finish or that just didn't lead to anywhere due to losing interest due to mood. As a side note, I accidentally unlocked mpreg kink and I blame that on some people with their lovely art and I think it could be seen with some of the pieces made this year. I just like the round look of the belly (even going to the "extreme sizes" of belly being bigger than the person) and the inherent intimacy and I guess "legacy" on some form - it's been interesting to discover these feelings inside. Another big part of personal art this year has been to express more variety in style - I've always had a wide interest, ranging from these cute soft little kemono charactes to cool strong adults characters. This range I feel is partly due to why I might not be the artists to follow if people would just like to enjoy the other side of what I make, but I don't want to keep these sides separated either so I'm standing where I am with things. I've become quite fast with sketching, but coloring is still something I struggle quite a lot with and it takes a lot of time - I hope to improve on this aspect in 2026.

I'd like to actually connect with new people who love making art. I feel, that I'm not that connected with the people in furry community, that share similar love for media and art, and that it might be fun to try to connect with people that actively draw and like to talk about the process and expreriences - and also to gush about the art itself. I've thought that making art is connecting with people and enabling those connections to happen but there is still personal effort to be made in actually connecting which I'm poor at and I'd like to try to change this. I say this, knowing that I'm quite introverted with a low social battery with groups so it remains to be seen how it would work out!

Wishing that 2026 would be a year for others to also connect and find hope through people!

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