New Years Resolutions again!
Well here we are again, January of a new year and time to reflect on events of the part year.
Continue to produce feel good art
Continue to grow and imrpove as an artist
Take better care of myself emotionally
Top of my resolutions list was to continue to make feel good art. I feel like I managed to accomplish that, between commissions and personal art projects I tried my best to make things have a light and cheerful attitude. As far as improving as an artist goes I suppose I have to admit that I was able to accomplish this as well. Taking a look at previous artwork and what I've created recently I think I'm getting better. I've picked up new style options and have gotten a bit better at creating backgrounds. As an artist this is a pretty hard thing to admit, It feels like I'm still not as good as I should be but I have worked hard to get to the point I'm at now. So I HAVE to admit to myself that while maybe it wasn't as huge of a improvement as I might have wanted or maybe it was and I just have difficulty recognizing how much has changed, I have made progress as an artist.
Grow artstream... well... This one was kind of difficult. It feels like unless you're drawing porn in general most artists won't get much if any attention. Both in general and on Picarto. So streaming and not getting much attention from my art got kind of depressing. As such it made it harder to want to stream work. To compound the issue when hurricane Harvey was approaching my area I had no electricity so I decided to take this time to catch up on some podcasts I had been meaning to listen to. Including Critical Role, long story short I recently finished catching up. So a lot of my time has been working on websites for clients and commissions while listening to Critical Role. So in an effort to help build up the stream I decided maybe using Discord for stream notices might be helpful. A lot of people I know have opened discords for stream notices and junk so I thought I would try it.
Decided to name it ArtJam because its still a project I believe in. ArtJam was meant to be a way for my artist friends and I to help motivate eachother to work on art more often and help eachother improve. As well as help keep eachother out of the well of depression that makes it harder to keep working on art. Its purpose is to motivate and push artists to improve. I still like this idea.
Take better care of myself emotionally, I feel like I have done this. I'm still trying to set myself up in a way that I can do art for a career which makes me happy. Previous years were really rough for me and I was having trouble imagining another 30-40 years living how I was. I haven't really done too much with my gaming stream, I did play through all of Doom and that was really fun. But I haven't been streaming games lately which I feel like I should keep up with. What I probably need to do is make some sort of streaming schedule and stick to it. Pick a few times a week to stream games and do that, then spend the rest of my time streaming art or working on my podcast projects. I have been working on a D&D podcast for a while now, wanted to record our weekly (more or less) sessions and after some editing and such post them up for people to listen to. While D&Ding has been fun our first game hit a problem when the story kind of hit a wall and we couldn't find our way to the next plothook. So there's a huge chunk of sessions where nothing is happening and it wouldn't be good for a podcast. I'll have to look at these again and see what I can do about them... Hopefully the new games will continue on well and I'll post those as well.
In all I feel like keeping the same resolutions as last year. Continue to work on art that has feel good vibes, improve as much as I can, and work on building up my streams. These will make me happy and in the end I feel like this is the main purpose of resolutions, to try and improve from where you are now.
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