Even though my main concept of Trytalik was already perfect, 2016 marked the moment where I started getting more online and having less irl friends. My art was not getting any clicks, so I figured it must have been because my characters weren't looking good enough. This concept was an attempt to fix that feeling that something is wrong by reworking things that were already good enough - a clear example of an artist in a bad place thinking it was them who is at fault, and doing meaningless motions to change at least something. Good that I still had at least someone around to tell me the new concept was not the character at all.