One Year Of Art

I'm taking on a personal challenge where I post a piece of art every day for 365 days, as an homage to Unus Annus and Lixian's own personal Unus Annus challenge, and to force myself to be comfortable with my notoriously subpar art.

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#126 Oregon Country Fair

Pencil on paper, 7/12/26

So the oregon country fair is like kind of a renaissance fair but with less medieval fantasy and more hippies. I went for the very first time last year and it was in the middle of a heat wave which was a bad move, but today should be a little more bearable.

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#127 Zoom Background Concept Sketch

Pencil on paper, 7/11/26

Gonna make my dad a custom background for his video calls that he does for work so he doesn't have to use the ai generated one he initially showed me. I could have designed one from stock images and the picture of his cat he clearly fed into chatgpt with less environmental impact and for a fraction of the cost it would take to pay a graphic designer who isn't his multimedia student offspring if he just asked me first, but I successfully begged him to let me fix this mess for him.

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#128 Eye Sketches

Pencil on paper, 7/10/26

When in doubt, sketch eyes.

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#129 I deserve a sword

Pencil on paper, 7/9/26

I've had a pretty rough year so far, I think I deserve a sword for my troubles.

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#130 composing a great ballad

Pencil on paper, 7/8/26

I'm planning #104 in advance and i need to write parody lyrics. I'm not good at writing lyrics.

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#131 Potion of Greater Hydration

Ink on paper, 7/7/26

It's gatorade. It's literally gatorade. But I've been drinking lots of it this summer.

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#132 Minecraft Grass Block: now in color!

Ink on paper, 7/6/26

Yeah i colored it I think it's pretty now

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#133 Minecraft Grass Block

Pencil on paper, 7/5/26

Maybe I'll color this for tomorrow, maybe I'll do it in my own time and not post it, idk.

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#134 your did it

Ink on paper, 7/4/26

For when you accomplished a thing. I'm having fun with markers lately. I feel like a kid again!

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#135 Button in a red shirt

Ink on paper, 7/3/26

A little drawing to reassess some of my markers. I need a burgundy color and the skin tone markers have served me well but most of them have a yellow undertone and it really shows on some more than others. Like this one.

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#136 cat sings the song of her people

Pencil on paper, 7/2/26

Every morning my roommate's cat graces us with a symphony of meows

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#137 little birds

Pencil on paper, 7/1/26

Inspired by the birds in our roof. They don't look like this but they were out and about yesterday and they were kind of small and shaped like this. Probably some kind of sparrow or chickadee or something 

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#138 tumblr mass post editor a.k.a. where I've been for the past hour 

Pencil on paper, 6/30/26

I wanted to do something pride themed to close out the month but then someone started liking posts from six years ago on my main blog so in a panic I spent like an hour deleting as many as I could because it always makes me nervous when I see people interacting with my old posts 

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#139 a small shadowheart

Pencil on paper, 6/29/26

Totally not just covering up where i messed up the ponytail before that pencil is for scale

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#140 Pirate weekend at the renfair

Pencil on paper, 6/28/26

This is my first time at this particular renaissance fair but I have everything i need for a modest pirate costume so yo ho ho and a bottle of overpriced water

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#141 my delicious takeout meal

Pencil on paper, 6/27/26

I had some pad see yew from a Thai food truck for lunch :)

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#142 tumblr mutuals (dramatization)

Pencil on paper, 6/26/26

Obligatory nobody here disclaimer. Except the stalker ex-mutual that one did happen to me.