Recognized. I guess so. (Going off just tumblr/fa/twitter numbers here…mostly Tumblr because of Smolder playing an absurdly big role in it. the audience/following count took a massive jump from 8k into the 20k+. But I’ve always felt pretty content with that. Smut or not, having your own character being the reason folks followed is a pretty nice feeling + bonus if they stay for everything else. even if I don’t draw her as often as I use or want to.)

Um, there’s a few things I want to “change” myself and want to try doing for 2018.

[1] Be more active on all the sites I post. (This is a given)
[2] Move away from being a “commission” artist.
[3] STUDY

I would like to phase out commissions. Not that I don’t like doing pieces for others. (I enjoy gifting pieces to friends, others who’s works or content I’ve enjoyed and it does feel nice making stranger’s DAY/WEEK just for creating a piece they wanted.) it’s been a rocky experience. I got to personally meet and work directly with some great clients that have been good to me, returning clients or funny enough even good acquaintances /friends.

For 2018, i’d like to move over to doing strictly fanart of shows/games/things I actually enjoy and personal pieces. (mentioned back before there are shows like “Working!!” I would love to do fan comic or two for. Zelda, Splatoon, League of Legends or whatever else even catches my interest and hopefully meet others with the same interests.)

Really want to turn 2018 into studying + self-exploration with themes, characters, backgrounds and ideas that always pinged my interested but I never got around to just sitting down and investing time into. (2017 was originally supposed to be the year of “STUDYING” first few months worked out but then I got busy/stress. So I would end up just turning to sleeping doing nothing for long periods of times or playing dumb games like league a lot.)

I’m on a far better foundation than I was a year or two ago. So hopefully that will make pushing for improvement (myself and art) will go much smoother next year.

(dumb thing above is from personal studies and notes earlier this year when I was trying to get back into painting + learn the fundamentals. I tried, but gonna need to do better next year.)