Jul 25, 2025
I was on vacation end of June but here’s my 3 year art update!
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I was on vacation end of June but here’s my 3 year art update!
Previous 2 years below the cut
starting a yearly personal life update for all my friends because I am not very good at communicating, so I’m taking advantage of it being the last day of the year for it:
took up cooking. It makes me feel very good to feed others and have all the control over what I eat at the same time. I’m still not very good at it but something is something.
we’re BACK ON !!! (<- started drinking coffee again)
fell back into one piece hell, if you hadn’t noticed. it gives me uncontrollable joy and, funnily enough and par for the course when it comes to my hyperfixations, has helped me to emotionally auto-regulate. keeps the numbness and the depression away for the most part.
decided to let my hair grow. this one isn’t as much of an update as it is a complain (sadge 😔✊). It’s been over a year since and I’m honestly surprised I haven’t broken out in hives yet. I just wanna chop it off again. I CHOPPED IT OFF, YEEHAW !! 🤠
got a job as a part-time live-in nanny and I loved it for the couple months that it lasted—
—before moving again. this time to another state lol (this one is recent enough I can be forgiven for not telling, right? please forgive me. It’s been fucking bonkers. I feel like I deserve to be forgiven). I am upset about that but it’s not like I’m not used to unexpected moves. been doing it my whole life. I’m actually excited about it tho!!!! I get to see the snow now!
two nickels meme!
started making my own bracelets! 🥹 so far I have a marcoace and an asl one hehe. I was making a lawlu and had a zosan ready to be made after that but I left all my beads on the storage back in the other state lol
something’s going on with my ear so for the past few weeks I’ve been deaf on the left side. Will have to check that out sometime lol
missed a lot of stuff I’m sure but I only just started this update in October LOL. Gonna do it earlier next year
anyways!! happy new year everyone ❤️
I became an Era’s Tour girly and I’m in my Loved Up Era🥰🥰🥰
My yearly update x
December Project Update + 2022 in Review
It’s still January so it’s not too late to write out some of my thoughts about last year 📅 Some quick project updates first:
Rose Garden
script writing continues! I didn’t manage to finish it for nanowrimo but I made good progress <3
Beledrift
Was in the right mood so I wrote up a bit more worldbuilding & wrote some more of a couple profiles but nothing finished enough to share.
One more of the pirates has a ref now - Yon commissioned me to make one for Laish I had a lot of fun doing it:
Don’t Wake the Sleeping Dragon
I wrote a short tabletop! It’s not ready to share yet but I got some friends to playtest it - I need to do a few edits, a second playtest, and then I’ll put together a pdf to publish
My girlfriend and I also wrote out some ideas for a board game version of the game. We have mechanics planned out, now just need to put some spreadsheets together & write out specifics in more detail
Goals for this month: I’m not putting down any goals for January since I don’t think I’ll have much time to work on my stories this month.
Looking back on 2022
2022 felt like a slow year for me - and it was! there was a lot more I wanted to get done than I managed and a lot of the pieces I did manage to finish, even though I like how they turned out, I felt that I could have done better on if I had the energy or time to not rush through them as much.
A lot of my art this year has centered around zine work and commissions. Towards the begining of the year I took a lot of comms and had fun with them but ended up spending longer than I intended on each one - a big reason I ended up raising my prices in the second half of the year. As I get better at art each piece simple takes longer to do since there’s more planning, more care in execution, and more details to work out. With the new prices my flow of orders slowed down a lot but the pieces I did get I could spend time perfecting without guilt. The extra time I had I could dedicate to doing other things I had wanted to get around to. Specificaly here I started more regularly making adopt designs!
Celestial adopts, a few are still open!
Doing them on a chibi base using the symetry tool made it so I could easily get designs out without stressing too much about the details - posing, anatomy, ect. And I had a lot of fun with that! I love designing characters and I love seeing what people do with my designs. There was also the extra benifit of not having to worry about if my client would like my work - people see the finished result with these first and if they like it they get it ✨
Zine work I did enjoy a lot - working with other people is always fun and seeing the finished zines put together with everyone’s hard work side by side is amazing. But - they sure don’t pay well. Zine are a passion project and that’s totally fair but the fact that fandom zines have come to be such high-quality projects with an expectation for full illustrations from artists that take hours to make without artists getting a penny in compensation... Isn’t great. Sure, the money is going to charity rather than someone profiting off it and for a lot of zines this makes sense but a lot of them only donate to charity bc that’s the community standard and figuring out how to pay contributers is a hassle - especially when some contributers might be underage. Anyway, this is a whole discussion but the main point is I’m not going to be doing as many zines next years - I want to focus on orginal work and I need to focus on stuff that earns me $$ to survive because, unfortuantly, we live in a society.
My piece for a sky game bg focused zine
It’s impossible to decouple creative energy from general life stress - and the rising costs of everything have not been condutive to trying to carve out a career as an artist. I just paid our gas bill for decemeber today and it’s risen to be more than half my share of the monthly rent?? It’s insane. When you’re struggling to stay afloat taking the time to pursue your passion isn’t easy and when you need to do stuff to earn money now it’s hard to take the time set up more long term plans that will earn money later but not now.
Despite all that I do love how a lot of the pieces this year turned out and I did draw plenty. I experimented with a bunch of new techniques this year that I enjoyed and am looking forward to incorperating into my work more as I’m able to spend more time on it. I have a few things planned for this year, some of which I didn’t managed to get done last year (making physical & digital merch) and some new stuff as well (to be revealed!). One big thing I will make sure to carve out the time for is some orginal narrative work - while I enjoyed the zine pieces and commission work I did last year a lot I do miss doing standalone narrative drawings. We’ll see how much of my goals I’ll be able to get done but I feeling good this month and I’m optimistic about where 2023 will go (a dangerous feeling I know)
Click the keep reading to see my life drawing summary for the year! Warning for boobs.
End of Year 5 Updates
Took me a while to write this up, whoops. It was a very hard year for the pack, so there’s quite a bit. Anyway, it’s here now!
Sitka Hailstorm passed away at the beginning of summer. Her loss was very hard on the pack, as she was the only one who really stood up to Marion.
Nettle Littlecreek died not long after, leaving Sortia Stormheart to take his place as herbalist.
Two loners, Stella Icebrook and Dune, joined around the same time.
The mystery pup continued being... well, mysterious. The pack named him Fisher.
Breeze Winterborn had one pup, Hoot. His father is unknown.
Honey and Cedar Lostwood also had a litter. Two pups survived: Maple and Pinecone.
At the end of summer, a wildfire temporarily scattered the pack. No one was badly injured, and several of the wolves were guided back by strangers from neighboring packs. Fisher helped save some of the wolves, and joined the pack after.
After the fire, Ryker and Amara Lostwood’s relationship hit a rough patch, as they got into a fight about survival strategies for future disasters and how to keep their packmates safe. They have been avoiding each other.
On the other hand, surviving the fire gave Magpie Hailstorm the courage to confess her feelings to Finch Elkhunt. They are now mates, keeping Finch’s surname.
Morgan Beaverpelt died. Her role as a chaser was filled by Sequoia Hailstorm.
Hawthorn Greymist died as well. Stella took his role as a pupsitter.
Year five update
Links to year one, two, three, four
I returned from my 18 month trip in October and got re-obsessed with BNHA. I post this to share my progress and have something I can look back on and keep track of time. I think stepping away from art for a time was a good choice, it made me lose a chunk of the audience I had gained over three years but I’m looking at art with a new perspective. So without further delay my art pieces I’m happy with ♥
My first Digital Piece after I came back. I wanted to be more experimental and skilled in the landscaping and make sure that I properly used lighting on all the objects in the image. October 9, 2019
https://inklightcreations.tumblr.com/post/188236453272/its-been-a-while
This is one of my art studies, I have a few that I’ve posted but this ones my favorite thus far because I made a few creative choices as I drew. Doing an art study opened my mind and helped my skill. I will definitely be doing more, as I’ve been building up a reference file for redraws. October 31, 2019
https://inklightcreations.tumblr.com/post/188725340062/happy-halloween-yall-be-safe-tonight-and-seek
Less focused on the surroundings and more on the character. I’m super happy with the finished product I worked hard on the details, the colors are pretty well balanced, theres good visual interest and I maintained the characters form (for the most part) and their character. December 15, 2019
https://inklightcreations.tumblr.com/post/189680017887/paintball-a-fun-fairly-aggressive-activity-which
I went a step further with this one, everything just fell together as I drew this, There are many factors I can improve on but this is most likely my best piece of the review. I designed from the ground up and everything in it has time and little details you can zoom in on an notice. January 5, 2020
https://inklightcreations.tumblr.com/post/190082505272/taking-care-of-my-hungry-kid-d
I have been ‘working on a comic’ Its currently being delayed as I am working on a zine but I have to work on consistency because of it. Its taught me where to focus my efforts when visually telling a story and what formats work best for comics. Started December 11, 2019
https://inklightcreations.tumblr.com/post/189600929522/out-of-context-angst-v-this-is-a-take-on
I just like dragons and I think this ones neat :^) Best dragon I’ve drawn and childhood me would be proud of it. February 28, 2020
https://inklightcreations.tumblr.com/post/611246649306726401/space-dragons-are-allowed-hoard-whatever-the
Lastly my most recent work, where I experimented with art style and hey they all look cute. (even the feral one) May 4, 2020
https://inklightcreations.tumblr.com/post/617292996975673344/vianyri-what-cha-got-there-deku
May the next year bring more opportunities and growth I can look back on like these ones have. Thank you for any of you who have stuck around during my Hiatus and welcome anyone who found my art and supports it with like and reblogs. The drop in attention is a little discouraging after I came back but clearly isn’t going to stop me from continuing. Art is the thing I want to work on for the rest of my life even if nobody cares for it. But I’d be very grateful if I could live off the thing I love one day.
I’ve felt optimistic consistently for the past 6 months and idk how long it will last but here’s some thoughts about the new year and coincidences.
Star guardian trist redraw! She became cuter