It’s that time of the year again!
It’s funny - every time I do one of these redraws, I think to myself “I doubt I can improve much from here, there will probably be no point in doing one next year”. And every year I surprise myself 😝
Early into 2023 I suffered a moderately severe spinal injury (2 herniated discs in my neck) that made looking down long enough to draw anything nearly impossible. For about four months, I was in terrible pain and had numbness in multiple fingers. I thought I might have to give up on drawing altogether. Thankfully, five months of physical therapy helped get me back to a state where I can draw for reasonable amounts of time without too much pain, as long as I remember to stretch and take breaks every 20-30 minutes.
Throughout all that, I kept studying the art of artists I really like (as well as art I Didn’t like, lol) to break down what I liked and disliked about it. I found that soo helpful! When I was finally able to start drawing again, I was shocked to find that my art had improved even without any actual practice.
This is just about the closest I've gotten to "actually looks like how I pictured it in my head"!