annual art improvement
started in january 2024, when I made a fun and hasty painting as my first piece of the new year. then I redid it for my final art piece of the year in december 2024, putting a little more effort in but trying to keep it quick to be fair to the hasty original piece. I also used totally random vibrant colors in the original, and then color picked just 5 colors out of it to use for the second version.
and now in december 2025 I've remade it again! this time with a lot more effort, but I think if I had timed it over the days I worked on it, the total hours would still be less than 8. can't fact check that cuz i didn't actually track the time lol. still using the exact 5 color palette of the second version.
I think this piece will be my annual tradition now, because it is a very challenging one! drawing someone in a dynamic dance pose with both wings and arms is difficult! especially because Mori here is supposed to have a non human face shape, with a protruding beak tooth and also he's missing a chunk of his nose. I think he gets more feathers every time I paint him too lol. He's a very fluffy fella.
anyway, here is the current full comparison for each time I've painted this piece! happy almost new year!
(image description: three digital paintings of a humanoid character with feathered blue and green wings. He has a golden fan of feathers arching over his back, and two longer green streamer feathers coming out of his tail. He's in a dynamic dance pose that changes with each image, but always has his wings flared and one foot kicked up with a bent knee. In each image, he is also only wearing some kind of skirt and several pieces of jewelry. The painting style is more refined and relaistic in each progressing image, and the dance pose gets a bit more complex too. The first two images only have him in front of some vaguely colorful background, but the third one has him on a stage with a red curtain behind him. end description.)
