Hello hello hello and Happy New Year, everyone! I hope this post finds you well. For years and years, I have been wanting to send out nengajo (Japanese new year greeting cards) or even design my own, so I made up my mind that 2026 is the year! I know this post didn't go up on New Years Day, but I'm a big believer in the phrase "Better late than never." 💕
For this design, I decided to try to make a unicorn to celebrate Year of the Horse! It was a fun opportunity to try harnessing my love for medieval tapestries and the beautiful ways they depict nature and creatures. It was so fun to paint and fill the background with all sorts of different flowers!
(I'm going to start doing a section of the caption of my pieces called VLMR: Very Long, Maybe Read. Sometimes I have a lot to say, so this is an optional section for those who are interested bahaha 😆)
Anyways! VLMR: Happy New Year! Do you have any New Years goals or wishes for 2026?
Some of mine are to create more (no matter the result lol) and to continue to share regularly online. To be honest, I've been struggling a bit with art and the idea of art the last couple of years. I love, love, love the process of making art, sharing it with others, and the art community ! But the last couple of years, I've been having a hard time with a mixture of art block, shyness, busyness, and discouragement related to the proliferation of generative AI. For a long time I wasn't sure how to move forward with my own art journey.
After a lot of consideration and conversations with friends, I've been thinking more and more about how important it is to CONTINUE to create and share artwork from the heart. I am so thankful for all of the artists, actors, directors, musicians, etc. around the world who hone and share their craft, so I would like to gladly continue to participate as well. I want to live in a world filled with expressions of the heart, so I want to contribute too! 💕
Long story short, from now on I want to challenge myself to share art instead of keeping it to myself lol. After years of inactivity, here is what you can expect from Seahorsespaghetti moving forward:
✨ Posting about once a week
✨ Art of all different types including:
✨ Fanart of various series
And more! Looking forward to a year of more art with you. 🙇♀️💕 Thanks for sticking around!
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