My 2022 year in review
so now that another year has come to pass, I feel I should make another full year review. I know this was a pretty bad year in the world as a whole, but for me personally, it was kind of meh. It was not that great, but it was not terrible either, it was filled with a lot of ups and down. I learned a lot of new things and skills, like how to storyboard and make an attempt at my first storyboard. I launched my own patreon this year. I know that might not be a big deal to some people, but for years I thought patreon would be waste of time for me because I was not that confident in my work to make people pay for it. At first my patreon did really well, but things didn’t really go as planned and interest in my patreon kind of died later in the year. No really sure I want to continue with it or not. Also I kind of started writing my story I hope to be published as a book someday, an actual original story and not just fanfiction. My summer was really boring again because I didn’t go on a summer vacation again this year, me and my parents couldn’t afford one.
My holiday season was just okay, I didn’t get to do everything I wanted to do, but I did more then I did last year. I was actually able to enjoy the autumn colors this year by going to a park, but didn’t really do anything for halloween. I got to see some old friends who I had not seen in a year in december and I had a pretty good christmas. Even though I some good moments over the holidays, there were also some bad moments too where my depression set in and I just felt empty and lonely. Another bad thing for me this year that my dog’s health as steadily gotten worse over the year. He had a bad skin infection and a tumor found underneath in back legs earlier in the year, the skin infection was treatable and has gone away. But the tumor, it’s not cancerous, but still he has to deal with it for the rest of his life. My dog as arthritis in his back legs that has made it very hard to him to walk. it was especially bad over christmas he could barely stand up at all and I thought I was going to lose him, but he is doing a bit better now with the meds we have given him. So overall, all I just stay about this past year is that I survived it and I guess that is all that really counts.
The things I want to do in the new year I don’t want to call resolutions or goals, but just plans for things that may or may not happen. I want to focus more on my writing and write more of my original story. In terms of artwork, draw more furry and werewolf art to find more of an audience, this past year my artwork was kind of all over the place and I didn’t get to create as much art as a usually do. Continuing to learn more about storyboarding, I feel like I have just dipped my toes in learning it over the past year. So I want to fully dive into it so hopefully I can get a better job with it. Also learn to give myself more breaks, this year often it just felt like constant going and going which eventually left me a little burnt out. I must learn that is okay to not be totally productive all the time. And that is pretty much it for my plans. Here is hoping next year will be a much better year for me.
