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I have been enjoying making these super high res chibis ft. Felix and Adelaide from Revolving Door

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randomly felt like drawing them with 8 bit colours

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Two of Cups - a tarot card design for the same private project as this one! This is better than marriage to them 😭

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Sciencing around with colours. An outfit I designed previously, but with more 💿 energy

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I feel like Anqien brings out all my best art for some reason. I promise it's not just because I've drawn them 200 times.

This and the chibi below are for a card deck project in a closed server.

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Into the blue

This piece materialised because of another art piece I can't post yet - needed to draw another one in a similar style that I COULD post.

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if only I had the time to make a full Offshore comic...

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this art style continues to be slow and painstaking, but hey I really enjoy how they look

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A date

(I love painting rough environment scenes like these, maybe I'll do more)

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Ah yes, my favourite CODE HEX characters, #FFFFFF and #000000

Thinking of calling their ship Monochrome or something.

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"The Many Faces of Primrose Neverglade" (click here for interactive version)

Secret Santa gift for my friend Andie/piyo

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Gonna be so annoying about these chibis because I drew them with a mouse. I forgot to pack my tablet pen for my trip but the urge to make art was too strong. I love my water themed high ponytail OCs (the latter, Sky Blue, was designed by emorbus)A rough landscape painting showing a tree with purple leaves at the top of a blue-green hill, under a lavender sky. The tree's curtain-like foliage is swept by the wind, some leaves floating away.

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I love data! Here's my Yearly Wrapped for art.

What a bumper crop year. I have so many favourites this year that I can't fit them all in this art summary chart (it's a good selection, though).

Overall, I made 584 art pieces that I consider complete. Here are the ones that are not secret (I'm pretty sure I missed some):

Overall favourite

My art piece for Rose Magazine is decidedly my favourite this year. I'm very satisfied with the colour, composition, detailing and rendering, and I genuinely think my younger self would gasp if they knew they'd make this with their own hands someday - it's the kind of art I've striven for all my life.

Here are some honourable mentions, though:

Took the longest

Unsurprisingly, most of the works that took upwards of the usual 1-4 hours were animations and comics. Funnily enough, the top two were associated with music.

This animation, set to a snippet of Everybody Wants It by Zee Machine and Kelechi, took about 60 hours, across 2 months. The song's artists actually saw the animation roughs and complimented them - I'm still reeling.

This comic, which retells the story of Compass to the lyrics of How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful by Florence + the Machine, involved at least 20 hours across two days. I'll admit, the comic does feel like it should've taken more than two days.

And as for the single still illustration that took the longest, it was almost undoubtedly this gift for @mystalia, featuring her character Elena. I did lose count, but I'm pretty sure it took at least 12 hours.

Days with the most art pieces

The day of the year where I drew the most art was 23 pieces on December 21. This happened mainly because I was on an art stream with some friends and taking requests:

I also drew a lot on:

17 October (20 pieces)

16 October (17 pieces)

2 July (16 pieces).

I admit it, I laughed

I don't normally think of myself as a funny person but. I did make some art that actually made me lose it during the process, and these are worth mentioning as well:

Cities

How many city scenes did I draw this year?

The answer is: a lot.

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To all seeing this post, thanks for being here and checking out my works! I think it was a good year, creatively speaking, and I've honed skills in both slow+detailed and fast+loose works. I look forward to the next.

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bouncy gulpy, gift for a friend

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destress doodle

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It's not your lucky day!

(My OC Omen, a "luck singularity" who made a mind-boggling fortune manipulating luck at casinos. they're now banned from 50 of them.)

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Planets align - My full art piece for Rose Magazine (@ocrosemagazine), an art zine for charity! I was very happy to be able to draw my sailing OCs for this edition.

You can pick up a copy of the zine here. It comes with 70 stunning works of art with celestial themes, and all that for $5 - all proceeds go towards conservation of the Amazon Rainforest!