It’s that time of year again: the end. So I get to talk about my favorite things I posted. It’s funny, I feel like I really didn’t draw that much more than last year, and I certainly didn’t get any better. If anything, I’ve probably regressed. But even then, in these past few months I’ve probably felt more joy about drawing than I have in a long time. In a way, it feels like I’ve removed all my expectations for myself and I just... I just get to draw whatever I want, and it doesn’t matter if it looks sucky to me. “Face didn’t come out right? That’s fine, it still looks cute. It doesn’t look as good as it used to? No worries, you’ve done it before and you’ll do it once more. And even if you don’t, you can still have fun with it and make people happy.”
Maybe I’m just finally done with being mean to myself about my drawings. Maybe I just wanna draw cute/silly stuff for my friends. Because, as I’ve said before, you don’t have to be great and powerful to make something that makes a great and powerful difference in someone’s day. Anyway...
Ol’ Reliable Applejack. This is one of the first drawings I made with my new tablet, and the first one that made me think “Okay... I can still do this.” Even before my bestest most favorite tablet broke, I hadn’t been feeling the whole “drawing” thing in awhile. As simple as this looks, it felt like a real turning point.
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Internet Fuzz Queens. As a very young child, I had this idea in my head that all my favorite cartoon characters lived in a community together and they would hang out and stuff. This is was an extremely self-indulgent comic that required specific knowledge of four different fandoms, and I want to do more like it. I love my blorbos and I want to see them hang out together.
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Angel Byrd. My OC turned space kangaroo in my Scum and Villainy campaign. I’m glad I got to give her a little more pizzazz. I forgot to mention it in the original post, but the reason her dress has a tummy window is because she’s planning on smuggling museum artifacts in her pouch lol. We’re actually doing the second part of the heist tomorrow, wish us luck!
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Kaysee Cadet! A character I made for a dnd Humblewood campaign. I really love how this came out. Ultimately I did settle on the orange fur, but maybe I’ll do something with that black fur design at some point. Gawd I’ve grown really attached to this character. They’re autistic, and they’re not native to the setting of the campaign, so “common” isn’t their first language. It’s been really difficult for them to navigate the world, and some people have been quite cruel to her, including her own family. All she wants is love, and they try SO HARD to help people despite everything, and we’re getting to the part in the campaign where the party transitions from “ragtag group of weirdos forced together” to “found family.” But tragedy struck in the last session of the year, and now it’s more of a “darkest hour” moment. And I’m just... I love my blorbos, especially the ones I made up ;_;
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Give Trans Girls Swords. Winter is this lovely artist’s sheep fursona. I’d been wanting to draw them for awhile, she has such an appealing design. This was so fun to draw, I love making things for friends and also giving trans girls swords.
I really want to make my own fursona one of these days...
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Miss Pie’s Monsters. It was... so nice to see the monster gang again. MPM is absolutely one of those projects that I never stopped thinking about, never lost hope that I could finish it one day, even those it’s been years since its last real update. I’m happy with myself for sticking to the update schedule I promised, even if I was calling it close sometimes lol. I hope people liked seeing them again. And to the people that I know liked seeing them again: first, I love u, I hope I can continue to update it in the coming year. I can’t wait to reveal who the Captain of the guard really is.
Stay fantastic, I hope we all have a better 2023. Or at the very least, make it through it together. <3
Because of injuries, I only had like 20 art posts this year, and not all of them were... happy. So instead of doing my most personally meaningful posts this year, I’m just doing the top 5 highest note posts.
5. Shooting Stars: Kinda makes me happy to know that pony memes can still endure years after the show ended. For the record, I genuinely loved the meme. There was a lot of really passionate people unironically creating wonderful art for the ship, and I respect that. I want to be brave enough to not worry about appearing cringe to haters on the Internet.
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4. Pinkie Posing: Pinkie Pie continues to be my comfort drawing character. Thanks Ponkle Donk, for being my floofy-eared muse for the past 10 years.
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3. Still Worthy: It’s been a really long road to recovery. I think I’m finally, finally getting better though. Slowly, but still. Honestly, sometimes it feels so surreal to think there was a time I was regularly posting for y’all. This year has been such a mental toll, feels like it’s been going on forever. Maybe next I’ll get closer to doing that again. Admittedly, after not really drawing for so long, it does feel a bit... intimidating to get back on that horse (lol horse).
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2. Tail-wagging Friends: There was a time I was, largely, blissfully unaware and unconcerned with the weirdness of my drawings and ideas. I was drawing tatzlponies and stupid gigantic ears and just the most random stuff. Not sure how much it’s actually stopped me, but I feel like I’ve gotten much more self-conscious about that sort of stuff lately, and I’m not entirely sure why. I was worried this drawing would be too cringe, for lack of a better word, but apparently a lot of y’all share the sentiment lol. Glad to know I’m not alone in thinking tails would be very cute and cool and wonderful.
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1. Fine and Dandy: ...
...so it’s really been that sorta year for y’all too, huh? Whenever I was feeling especially depressed at work, and someone would inevitably small-talk a “how’re you doing?” I’d say “I’m fine and dandy like sour candy! How you doing?” There were a lot of days I felt like sour candy.
Happy New Year, y’all. Here’s hoping the new one is better than the old one. Or at least has more ponies.
Иногда "быть собой" означает быть немного чудным, и жизнь может показаться тяжелей. Но в один прекрасный день ты находишь кого-то такого же чудного, как и ты, и тогда ты понимаешь, что оно того стоило.
By Final Skies
Lyra made a Fluttershy doll, I hope fluttershy do not know about it :O But... in FiW Fluttershy kinda witch... i'm think she have a Lyra doll too... I'm a weirdo too, yay!
