Art Summary 2025: It’s that time of the year again!
This year, I brought you the same nonsense as the previous year and certainly the year that comes: Supernatural, Marvel and Sherlock 🥳💖 A bit of Oasis too, for a change. See you in 2026, certainly with (practically) the same thing 😅🤭
A summary of 2025 in the Ukagaka Dream Team is now available to read! It is an article for the 伺か・伺的 [第1会場] Advent Calendar 2025.
If you'd like to reflect on the things that were accomplished this year, or catch up if you've been out of the loop, be sure to check out the article!
Many thanks to everyone who has participated in or hosted events, contributed to the wiki, given us feedback on various issues, or any other effort that has helped to build the community. We wouldn't have a community without you!
I look forward to seeing what we accomplish in 2026!
JAN: Uni Graduation ceremony! Mixed feelings, as some relatives really tried to make it about them... this lead to me starting therapy.
FEB: Three day trip to Kastoria with my partner and my friend Niki right after we went to the course for the Tempi train crash. I loved every second of both.
MAR: Showed up to Chios to surprise my sick grandpa, thankfully he fully recovered! Also, a lot of portfolio work.
APR: Had the most wonderful birthday with my partner, Magdalene and Dimi at Grande Bretagne hotel! I love my friends <3
MAY: Went to Thessalonki Comic Con for the first time, shared a room with Dimi Nanabbi and Kon! I had a ton of fun, I hope we will get to go this year also! ✧ Nana was so resourceful, Dimi and I forgot half our luggage contents at home lol ///
JUN: Spent half my salary on physio to treat my crippling tennis elbow... yeeouch. Huge wildfires break out in Chios, some dangerously close to my grandmother's house. 20% of the plantation of the island is gone, animals die.
JUL: Aigina day trip with Niki, Kon and my partner! I really want to go again, the sea was mesmerizing...༄.°
AUG: Gave my one month notice and quit my soul-sucking job!
SEP: In 48 hours I left my job for good, travelled to Chania for Chaniartoon, spent almost an entire salary on my father's neglected dog's surgery and my uncle had heart attack and open heart surgery. Yeah.
OCT: Like almost magic, a ton of freelance business opportunities popped up, as if my resignation manifested projects I wouldn't have the time to take up otherwise.
NOV: So. Much. Freelance. Work. Still dealing with the shock of September... and the crippling depression of unemployment.
DEC: Athenscon, Christmas with Magdalene, her family, Dimi and Thanos and Chios trip. My family met my partner for the first time. I was very nervous, but it went remarkably well!
It was a full year with a ton of ups and downs. The first year since 2019 that I didn't complete a comic; a conscious choice on my part as I wanted to complete more portfolio works. I saw the fruits of my 2024 perspective study labour show gracefully in the new pieces I made!
Also THERAPY!!! Therapy works!!! I cannot recommend it enough!
Thank you very much everyone for sticking by for this wonderful journey. 2026 is going to be a huge financial gamble, but I am more than ready to undertake this challenge. I am entering 2026 with wonderful friends, an incredible partner and a new house waiting for me this May! I am so grateful.
2025 art summary! i wish i had been able to do/post more, but all in all am pretty pleased. Been bouncing between a bunch of different interests lately, but no matter what i put pen or brush to it all sparks joy and that is all I really desire.
The submas obsession hit hard this year xD Posting my yearly summary on this blog instead of my main, since, well, it completely comprises of two train guys.
Some notes and thoughts below the cut:
I decided to include writing stuff since it is technically creating, and I decide what I want with this summary! I can't discount the fact that most of this year was spent writing over drawing, which is something I haven't properly done in a very, very long time. It's nice to feel so creatively inspired again.
It's been a rough year for me on the rl side of things, and being able to work on "Attrition, Retention" in particular has been a nice respite from the craziness. I also really enjoyed participating in Novembmas this year! It was a great event and I was able to discover a lot of new creators through it.
I was doing pretty well with drawing early in the year but I lost a lot of steam in that respect after Stuff happened. It's such a bummer because I was really happy with the progress I made last year in coming out of my comfort zone, but I can't be too upset with myself about it. I've got to give a special shoutout to the silly comics I made back in February because I still find them funny.
I've been sketching a little more recently, so hopefully I'll be able post some art stuff in the near future! :D
All in all I'm pretty happy with what I've created this year! Seriously, a huge thank you to everyone who leaves tags and comments on my stuff. I love reading what you have to say and it makes my day. :)
Hats off to another year in the books! The plan for 2026 is to keep chipping away at AR and other projects, and try to get at least the second page of my dragon wrestling comic page finished xD;