#art year in review

[frostbitebakery]

art year in review!! As you can see, codywan still has a very good grip on everything going on in my brain. Though I’m surprised by how many other characters I got to explore this year.

Special spotlight on my unlucky command batch that, after about 9 months, I finished this year.

In total I got to finish 53 artworks in 2023, which is… insane, considering the year I’ve had. Thank you all for accompanying me on this art journey, being supportive, kind, and hilarious in your tags, comments, and conversations. 💜

ONTO NEXT YEAR, BITCHES 💜

[ghosthoodie]

what a fun year full of colors and yuri! ^u^

[chiliger]

Wooo boy what a year! It was so hard choosing which piece to use for each month, I don’t think I’ve ever created so much completed art before.

This was truly the year of the clone troopers, and it’s safe to say that I just can’t get enough of these guys 🧡

Thank you to everyone who has followed along and enjoyed and supported my work. Here’s to another year of art!

[mlobsters]

my favorite things i drew in 2023 - all of my stuff

(i actually just started drawing this year in january* so basically i get to choose from everything 🤪)

*update, lies! apparently I did post one thing in 2022

[canonkiller]

year in review for 2023 :)

Jan / Feb / Mar

Apr / May / Jun

Jul / Aug / Sep

Oct / Nov / Dec

Honorable mentions not pictured:

art fight 2023 summary

alive alive alive

[citation needed]

ouroboros

some reflections on the year:

mixed bag emotionally. eyes got worse, family's difficult, trying to make things accessible is a nightmare. but I also had friends visit, got myself a wheelchair, and government benefits started coming in, which have all been incredible. learning how to accept my limitations is hard. learning to love what I can do with them is, well, we're getting there. I miss reading books; I love playing ttrpg with my friends; I hope my own writing can land somewhere in the middle. knock on wood, I'll get hrt this year now that I have recorded evidence that my doctor's a fucking asshole. I'm thinking of giving myself an undercut.

I hope the coming year is kind. I love you.

[anime-grimmy-art]

It’s this time of the year again, folks. Time to wrap up the art Ive made in the last 12 months in another Year in Review! I’ve noticed that this is my fifth Year in Review in a row, so I’ll be making an extra post looking back on the progress in those last 5 years!

I've got a lot to say about this year, but purely art wise, I've gone all when it comes to comics, damn! I've kinda found a format that is messy, and therefore more time efficient, yet still looks good. I even made 2 animatics and lotsa shorts/reels! All that on top of opening coms twice, and, oh yeah, MAKING A WHOLE ASS 4MIN ANIMATION ON MY OWN.

How is my hand still alive.

2023 has been….interesting, to say the least. The first half year I was working on my thesis project, aka making an animated short all on my own (in the art department), which makes it honestly surprising how much I managed to churn out between animating. Trigun rly did have me in a choke hold.

Summer was a bit more spotty, esp. with me not being able to draw anything during August as I was writing my thesis (and doing commissions). And towards the end of the year, Kingdom Hearts tried to save me, but alas, Genshin Impact has finally sunk its teeth into me and dragged me to the bottom of the rabbit hole. It all started with me watching a story summary and lore videos while I was sick after my thesis and I was too intrigued to not dig deeper and well, first I fell in love with Kaeya and then the ships started dropping in left and right.

I’m not gonna lie, the last few months have been weird. I finished my masters in October, and have been on job hunt since, sadly without success so far. I’m existing in this weird limbo of still not grasping I’m not a student anymore after 18 years in education, not really being able to accept I’m an adult, yet desperately trying to find something so I can make a routine, cos rn Im too scared to build a rhythm as I know I’ll have a so much harder time readjusting again. It’s left me in a weird emotional state, where most of the time I feel fine, but when it counts, there’s just, nothing. No joy at getting my diploma, no anticipation to finally go to a convention again, neither any sadness hearing my grandfather died. It frustrates me that it extends to my art as well, there’s excitement over ideas and concepts, but no motivation to pick up the pencil, which makes me either not finish art at all or making so many shortcuts and just ending up with sth not satisfactory to me since it’s not the idea I sought after.

Tho, not everything is doom and gloom. I DID finish a whole ass short animation and got my masters degree, that IS sth to be proud of. Also, while Im struggling at drawing, I’ve also kinda started integrating my shortcuts into my style and some stuff I’ve thrown together actually turns out real good nowadays. Also, and this might be a bit of a weird one, I’m so fucking happy to know I can still enjoy gay ships. I’ve been a bit uncertain over the last few years because when I was around 16-18, I had a real big yaoi phase, which mostly came from the fact so much stuff came out that tickled my brain in the right way (Free, Haikyuu, etc.). But over the years, my enthusiasm died down, and I even started to resent some ships because it’s all some fandoms produced. I often found myself liking a hetero ship more than the popular gay ship, which really made me not wanna stick around because I did not care for most fanart and you can only go through a tag with art you don’t care about so long before you lose interest. I think in retrospect that it rly had nothing to do with the ships being gay ships but rather cos the fans just shoved it in your face when you didn’t care (and shipping culture nowadays also can get real scary). But I’m so happy to see I can still get obsessed with a ship and it’s all thanks to Haikaveh/Kavetham. It really just needed the right flavour for me to dig in again. And oh my god, I FINALLY like a ship with a SHIT TON of art and fanfictions, no more scrounging the crumbs from the bottom of the barrel. 

Anyways, enough lamenting. Here’s to hoping I can bite my tongue and get shit started properly in 2024, and that my brainrots may make me obsessed enough to churn out an obscene amount of fanart again.

[autumnblooms]

It might be a bit early for these but fuck it

This time a year ago I made a resolution to draw more, with the goal of being able to fill out a Year in Rewind art card, and I did it! I am so proud of myself for sticking with it and even though some days it doesn’t feel like it, I’ve improved in my skills greatly and had so much art I actually had to narrow it down! I absolutely have this fandom and all the amazing creatives in it to thank for that 🖤 You all have inspired me so much and given me the drive to keep creating.

Here’s to 2024 and another year of art making with and for you lovely people 🖤

[coline7373]

Template borrowed from @razzbberry 💕💖💕💖💕💖

What a year! (Horrors & Disasters everywhere but still much joy and beauty to be found. I poured it all in there 💕) A big thank you to the friends I made, the people I got to know, those who encouraged me, cheered me on, kudo-ed and loved my art.

Special mention for those who commented in the tags. You guys empowered me with the energy of a thousand suns 💖💕🧡🌞🧡💕💖

[dragonpyre]

My artist year in review! Template by Sollonight on twitter

[yonpote]

here's my art summaryyyy fr fr it's been such a fun year to be drawing fanart for this silly lil community it makes me so happy i just love drawing these goofballs and i hope to draw even more sillies into the new year 🩷❤️🧡💛💚🩵💙💜

[frostbitebakery]

After quite literally nothing to show for 2020 and 2021, it’s time to gaze into the abyss and let the carpal tunnel gaze back.

I can’t believe all this is just a fraction of what I drew this year :’)

Thank you all for your friendship, your love, your tags and comments, and your mind gutters 💜

[folyxfanart]

2023 ended not well, nothing in december...But it was overall a good year for my art. I was inspired by all these amazing characters. I could be more productive but I'm still happy with the drawings I was able to produce despite this chaotic year. Thanks to everybody who supported me! ♡ See you next year :)

[eightyuh]

[macomico]

kachow 💫

[rillette]

something's telling me it was a very charlie filled year

[tarantula-hawk-wasp]

2023 art review. Picked my favorite piece from each month which was hard. This year in August and September and most of October my tablet was broken so I learned acrylic painting (August is my 2nd painting and Sept. is my 6th.) Lots of voltron art, my oc maera, and plenty of radiating lines and halos. I pushed myself with colorful glowing lights and highlights this year.