#has been in the works since dec 2023!! (oops ..

[localapparently]

beyond journey's end This is a collab piece I did with @meetimeeti!! I did the composition and characters and meeti did the very beautiful background and effects. Tysm to meeti for this collab opportunity <33 Reuploading is prohibited, thank you.

#has been in the works since dec 2023!! (oops .. #sousou no frieren #frieren: beyond journey's end #葬送のフリーレン #flamme #himmel #frieren #heiter #fern #stark #eisen #COLLAB ART #crit's art: frieren

[glassedplanets]

art summary for 2023! (template here)

jan | feb | mar | apr | may | (oops) jul | aug | sept | oct | nov | dec

i feel so happy with my art this year! i really leaned hard into high contrast lighting and really figured out more of what i had started figuring out partway through last year, process-wise. it's still unbelievable to me that backgrounds were something i avoided like the fucking PLAGUE until... idk, 2 years ago or so? and now when i draw something without some kind of background, no matter how simple, it just looks plain fucking weird to me.

this year i did a lot (a lot) of referencing off of photos of myself, and that's been MASSIVELY helpful for pose/angle as well as for clothing folds, just as a base to build on. between what i wear to work and my lolita fashion wardrobe, i can find (or fake) pretty much anything well enough to use as a ref in a photo. swords also. i also have a sword. that i keep in my bedroom specifically for ref photos. (i have had this sword since for about 15 years and it wasn't even for weaboo reasons.)

i also did a lot more "sketching" this year than i have in years past, which felt really good and i want to keep doing that; whatever flavor of perfectionism it is that i have demands me to go all or nothing when it comes to art, so finding a way around that has been really rewarding. and it's fun! it's a good way of exploring different stuff i want to explore (eg. blorbeauxes wrapped let me mess with diff colors for lighting)

art goals for next year:

keep working on anatomy; something has been slipping my grasp recently

more dynamic facial expressions

more poses where 2+ people are interacting

make something to be printed! stickers, postcards, anything (for personal purposes; i don't intend to vend/table anywhere lol, this is just something i've been wanting to do for a while now, so why not make 2024 the year for it)

and thanks to everyone who left a kind word in the tags this past year :')

#my art #art summary 2023

[peonyblossom]

So happy that @choicesmcmadness is back even though it took me all month to finally find time to do these oops

Ethan x Sydney

Not really a holiday tradition per se, but since their wedding anniversary is on Dec. 17, one of their favorite things they do each year is celebrate their anniversary lol

This year (2023, so ig last year now oops) they got their second kitty, Burrito, to celebrate their first anniversary!!

They also go on a ski trip every year during the week between Christmas and New Year's to celebrate the holidays

Thomas x Jackie

Each year they spend the holidays with one of their families (they switch off which family each year)

They also spend a lot of time in their cabin in the woods in Washington state in the winter when one of them misses the snow

One of Jackie's favorite traditions is to get together with their friends and have a movie marathon of all the holiday movies any of them have worked on (Chadley has 100% been the love interest in a Hallmark movie before)

Kit x Jules

One of their favorite holiday traditions is go into town and get hot cocoa and walk around looking at the lights and decorations

They usually go into a few local shops to do some Christmas shopping as well

They also gather around the fireplace on Christmas Eve and Jules plays Christmas carols on his guitar and sings

And ofc Kit cooks Christmas dinner every year lol

#choices mc madness #mc madness #christmas #merry mc-mas #open heart #hollywood u #untameable #ethan ramsey x sydney valentine #thomas hunt x jackie winters #kit jackson x jules rojas