Well this was certainly a year, wasn't it? o.O

Whatever state the world is in, though, arting and the friends I've made and spend so much time with thanks to it have certainly helped me all year long!

So this past year I really dug in more on the sketching and every picture completed began as a traditional sketch. This ended up resulting in a grand total of 187 sketches over the course of the year! While the sketches are still pretty rough, they're slowly improving in quality. I also managed to complete a picture almost every single week and I'm pretty proud of that accomplishment ^^

In terms of quality change over the course of the year... While the change isn't as clear and pronounced as it was last year, I'm really happy with the improvement I'm seeing!
I'd say the greatest improvement has been in the shading and lighting. Lots of experimenting and watching and tweaking of my approach to shading has led to definite improvements, particularly when it comes to some of the more subtle things like muscle definition, curves, and squish~
I've also seen improvement in the little details like ruffles in clothing and landscape texturing.

I also managed to make a-lot of new characters... Enough so that I had to tell myself to stop for several months XD
Some of them had been in my mind since last year, some a-bit more spontaneous. Jut, Niikalei, Puszeky, Lyn... All technically from runs of Pokemon Sword/Shield like Vilanna was. Ame and Kyra because I wanted to add a Lycanroc to my cast and to finally make a Kyrathane from that olllld comic I tried doing when I first started out. And then two that many haven't seen yet, Zmianna who is a Vilanome from Foxfencer's "Kriggleverse" and Iridalea who'll be going up tomorrow ^^
Character creation is lots of fun, buuuuut can get out of hand if you're not careful ^^;
As part of all that character creation, I also really expanded on the world building for my cast and their world. Certainly got some help thinking up ideas from some friends, but a-lot has been better defined and established for a-lot of them!

Going to try to keep up with this schedule I have of posting a completed picture and a sketch every week along with this going back and forth between the completed picture being of my cast and then for a friend, and then back again.

So with that, thanks all for checking out my art this past year and here to another great arting year in 2021 and a better year overall next year too!

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