* Be more active in the community – comment more!
FurAffinity is my favourite website on the Internet. I love being part of this community. But I feel like I’m not as active as I could or should be to keep this community alive and thriving. My first goal is to give more comments! I don’t have a specific target number in mind, but I had 403 comments made at the start of this morning. I’ll see how many I’ve made at the end of the year.

* Improve my lineart in both quality and speed
Last year’s Inktober seemed to improve my lineart a lot, and I felt like I jumped several levels of quality over the month. But my lineart is painfully slow and I feel like I’m missing something important with it to shake that beginner quality to it that discourages me from doing it with more of my sketches.
The only way to improve it is to actually do it, and so I’ll try to do lineart for some more of my sketches.

* Practice portraits and expressions
Another thing I’ve shyed away from is portraits. I’ve improved at head shapes a lot in the past year, but details like eyes and hair and open mouths still plague me. And that’s not even starting on expressions… So I’d like to remedy that by putting a bit more effort to practice portraits. At least in the earlier parts of the year. I already have a few good ideas on how to work on those: PMD-esque expression portraits, Discord emotes, stickers, semi-studies of the Violet Evergarden design book, etc… I think it will pair well with practicing my lineart.

* Iron out my characters
Cammy, Oub, and Simm have all had pretty vague definitions to their characters. Part of it is me being indecisive, but another part is me not putting a lot of effort into planning things out properly. I’d like to better define the lines between the characters, their purposes and personalities, etc as I continue to get and make art of them.

* Photography?
It’s less of a goal than it is an experiment, but I’d like to try my hand at photography. I have a camera ordered and on the way (Canon R50, for any who are interested in that) and hopefully I can start playing with it soon. I probably won’t post any of the photos I take, but I may integrate them with my art if I can find something more interesting than “character on top of random photo background”.