2022 art summaryI wanted to do one of my 2022 art year to see what happened to me. In 2022 I wanted to concentrate a lot more on painting.
January started easy, made some Vakrai inspired pieces, giving expressions to my horses. Was fun, but I am still fond of semi-realism a lot.
February marked my first painting commission and it was also my first painted tarot card. Was a challenge - and God, looking back I am so far away from that style now!
March gave us my last photomanip commission. I didn't do manips for a long while at that point and suddenly felt the urge to make one, so I came up with a YHH I think. I am still extremely happy with the end result, but I did not enjoy the process, proving to me my manip days are over now. Not saying for good, because I am sure I will do some concept art-styled pieces, but manips are not my main art form anymore.
April another inspired piece was done - by Aaron Blaise's Batman piece. Also this was the first piece that signed my year will be focused around lighting.
May and June were all about experimenting, playing with lighting, trying out different styles to see what sticks. Got a massive full body commission from Camy.
July, oh boi... finished a "painting light" course and the heavy experimenting started. I re-did the lessons over and over again to get the most out of them and worked on my colour picking choices and rather following a traditional art logic than relying on blending modes. It was challenging and my brain did not got the hang of it for al ong while.
August was spent in the same spirit. Lots of experimenting, kept painting. I felt lost.
September was a bit discouraging, I questioned my art knowledge and was slow. Didn't find my old stylised style as comfortable to do as before.
October came and something happened. I felt super inspired by the spooky vibes and something just clicked in my brain. Painted skull Tulip - it is a tradition by now - and I loved the whole process. Experienced a lot and still loving the end result. This piece gave me 2 other card commissions and then there was no stopping: this whole painting topic started to came together in my head and I enjoyed a lot playing with lighting.
November was the first month when I started to feel tired of horses. I love them, I still draw them a lot, mostly because they are my comfort zone by now, I practice a lot with my OCs whom are horses and I also accept equine commissions. But I started to feel the urge to draw something else as well.
December and the rest of November were all about painting. Either way cards or my textured paintings or full body practice pieces - on one layer, with mixer brushes totally controlling my colours and building up my forms. I started to feel the need of painting backgrounds, making that as my next year's goal as well. Toward the end of the month heavy depression hit me - as we get closer to the end of the year I feel like I did not progress as much as I could. I am currently climbing out of that, I do have ideas to paint, but I feel the actual act of painting, sitting down and creating tiring. It feels like I make it hard for myself, stressing about the end result and how dark my piece is or how well composed it is. I work on many things simultaneously: Drawabox exercises - finished the 250 box challenge and instantly put that knowledge in testing by painting my horses in different angles. I also keep going with the DAB exercises. I also sketching different big cats (another course), filling in for Secret Santa pieces, working on a commission, dealing with my mental problems. Writing all this down, not wondering I feel tired of doing art. I need to work on my stress level, I need to stop worrying about the quality of every piece and asking myself if I did everything perfectly. I just make art toxic for myself.
So what are my goals for 2023?
- Painting more and experimenting more.
- Stop worrying over end results, but keep the things in mind what I need to work on (without wanting to achieve instant perfection).
- Backgrounds.
- Less horses, more cattos.
- Dare to show myself on scial media.
- But also stop checking social media in every 5 minutes, stressing about why my following base is not growing as fast as I want it to grow.
- Share the stories that I am experiencing.
- Enjoy life more altogether. Focusing on the positive side of things instead of the negative ones. Stop being so fucking Eastern European and dare to be happy just a bit.Dec 28, 2022
January started easy, made some Vakrai inspired pieces, giving expressions to my horses. Was fun, but I am still fond of semi-realism a lot.
February marked my first painting commission and it was also my first painted tarot card. Was a challenge - and God, looking back I am so far away from that style now!
March gave us my last photomanip commission. I didn't do manips for a long while at that point and suddenly felt the urge to make one, so I came up with a YHH I think. I am still extremely happy with the end result, but I did not enjoy the process, proving to me my manip days are over now. Not saying for good, because I am sure I will do some concept art-styled pieces, but manips are not my main art form anymore.
April another inspired piece was done - by Aaron Blaise's Batman piece. Also this was the first piece that signed my year will be focused around lighting.
May and June were all about experimenting, playing with lighting, trying out different styles to see what sticks. Got a massive full body commission from Camy.
July, oh boi... finished a "painting light" course and the heavy experimenting started. I re-did the lessons over and over again to get the most out of them and worked on my colour picking choices and rather following a traditional art logic than relying on blending modes. It was challenging and my brain did not got the hang of it for al ong while.
August was spent in the same spirit. Lots of experimenting, kept painting. I felt lost.
September was a bit discouraging, I questioned my art knowledge and was slow. Didn't find my old stylised style as comfortable to do as before.
October came and something happened. I felt super inspired by the spooky vibes and something just clicked in my brain. Painted skull Tulip - it is a tradition by now - and I loved the whole process. Experienced a lot and still loving the end result. This piece gave me 2 other card commissions and then there was no stopping: this whole painting topic started to came together in my head and I enjoyed a lot playing with lighting.
November was the first month when I started to feel tired of horses. I love them, I still draw them a lot, mostly because they are my comfort zone by now, I practice a lot with my OCs whom are horses and I also accept equine commissions. But I started to feel the urge to draw something else as well.
December and the rest of November were all about painting. Either way cards or my textured paintings or full body practice pieces - on one layer, with mixer brushes totally controlling my colours and building up my forms. I started to feel the need of painting backgrounds, making that as my next year's goal as well. Toward the end of the month heavy depression hit me - as we get closer to the end of the year I feel like I did not progress as much as I could. I am currently climbing out of that, I do have ideas to paint, but I feel the actual act of painting, sitting down and creating tiring. It feels like I make it hard for myself, stressing about the end result and how dark my piece is or how well composed it is. I work on many things simultaneously: Drawabox exercises - finished the 250 box challenge and instantly put that knowledge in testing by painting my horses in different angles. I also keep going with the DAB exercises. I also sketching different big cats (another course), filling in for Secret Santa pieces, working on a commission, dealing with my mental problems. Writing all this down, not wondering I feel tired of doing art. I need to work on my stress level, I need to stop worrying about the quality of every piece and asking myself if I did everything perfectly. I just make art toxic for myself.
So what are my goals for 2023?
- Painting more and experimenting more.
- Stop worrying over end results, but keep the things in mind what I need to work on (without wanting to achieve instant perfection).
- Backgrounds.
- Less horses, more cattos.
- Dare to show myself on scial media.
- But also stop checking social media in every 5 minutes, stressing about why my following base is not growing as fast as I want it to grow.
- Share the stories that I am experiencing.
- Enjoy life more altogether. Focusing on the positive side of things instead of the negative ones. Stop being so fucking Eastern European and dare to be happy just a bit.Dec 28, 2022
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Ack it's been a pleasure following your work for the past year, you have such amazing pieces! Whenever you post something, even if it's i complete, I'm always so impressed by how goregous it is! Cheers to a new year! And good luck! 
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