Jan : nsyse.deviantart.com/art/Chien…

I didn’t draw much in Jan (3), though I was happy to be commissioned by my previous FARR match ;v;

This piece still holds up relatively good for my current technical level especially a year back! Mostly I love everything about it. I like to draw calm stuff, play with textures and make racist jokes about dutch people and windmills.

Feb: nsyse.deviantart.com/art/Jedi-…

In February I practiced speed a little with a couple requests, but also took 2 commissions (which took forever). I experimented some more with slightly different workflows than the white on black I started using the previous month, it still stood out as my favourite. This is the result of one alternative workflow I tried, I definitely had a blast doodling the space window view and think it looks great

Though the result looks good though, the workflow was terrible and very destructive. Which is why I kept experimenting.

Feb was not easy to choose one as I love a lot of them enough that I’d include multiple in my demo portfolio if I ever print one!

Mar : nsyse.deviantart.com/art/Napat…

In march I sold my first ref for earlier doggy (make me rich Phus!) But I dislike the backview now. I might try to take backview requests to solve that really. :s

Here’s a character design I had fun to stream with chat instead

Basically, every viewer chose a color and a few shapes and I had to build a headshot with the shapes and colors.

Daisie and Vivi were huge dicks (triquetra, klein bottle), tho I forgive them (and kind of expected it, it was part of the fun lol).

Looks like I drew a lot that month, think I just was too lazy to upload most stuff earlier.

Apr: nsyse.deviantart.com/art/Show-…

Woo pandering! I’m actually surprised, but this quickly became (and by far) the most favourited piece in my gallery (that I drew, curse you (Go check her out!!)) It wasn’t rushed or bad, but imho it’s obvious it’s not the one I put in the most effort in.

However, I don’t think it is really that notable. That month I experimented further with white on black and really liked it and thought I’d make it my thing. Nothing I made was really all that great that month imho (well except the one I finished a month later :>).

Also I tried revising my pricesheet because it was unreadable (that one wasn’t much better), gon submit a clear one soon-ishly hopefully.

May : nsyse.deviantart.com/art/Sand-…

May was just really good. I had gotten a little bored of the white on black, but mostly started seeing major flaws of it that made the worflow very destructive and harder to make seemingly simple edits (ie : cutting a part of the sketch made it very hard to reshade added parts appropriately)

I think this one is really great and started really cementing that how I still prefer to draw really works for me : values first, colors later!

June : nsyse.deviantart.com/art/Under…

In june I fucked up a lot. I fucked up Opal, I fucked up Izzy and I fucked up this BG. I did a solid commission, but it’s not really notable. My favourite is this gift for Daisie :> She had been bombarding me with many gifts and we’re still far from even.

A big chunk of background on this was sadly obviously added as an afterthought and just doesn’t work too well imho, but I think I outdid myself for her character

One of the rare drawings in my gallery that looks good from a glance and in 5k imho (except BG, ignore BG lol).

Jul : nsyse.deviantart.com/art/Vinca…

I decided for that trade I’d try forgoing any sketching and jumping straight to colors out of curiosity. As terrible as the idea sounded, I really love how it ended up!

Surprisingly I barely drew at all (IIRC it was just sooo hot in my room I barely wanted to do anything), though I did get to draw Lyze X Jae snuggles :3 So that’s good nsyse.deviantart.com/art/Lyze-…

Aug : nsyse.deviantart.com/art/Todd-…

Shiet august was good! (Painfully short) summer vacation ending I was like nooo I must do stuff!

And stuff I did.

I remembered I wanted to pick up 3D and started practicing some more (that went well /s but it was fun).

I tried to do my first traditional streams with a custom K’Nect camera holder (iPad kept freezing like a **** and I didn’t notice, though I made a charcoal doodle and new OC :>)

I tried a 30 days challenge (I lasted 9-11 days, though that’s twice as much as last time I tried one )

IIRC it’s that month I really realised how much support I receive from my watchers and online bros in the fandom. Thanks for following and thanks for reading

You always inspire me to keep improving and make me look forward to draw.

I pick this one cuz I think it really set a new bar to what I can manage to draw

ie: panties /s

Sept: nsyse.deviantart.com/art/Trade…

The trades on Reddit I had started organizing a month before started to lose interest sadly. Still did a couple and was a lot of fun. I also managed to redraw Opal and Izzy and not fuck it up this time

Picked this one because I tried and got bolder with colors around then, resumed adding colored highlights and shadows over the sketches’ values.

Oct : nsyse.deviantart.com/art/Tyler…

In october IIRC I did a bunch of sketches, none of which I considered complete enough to upload to anywhere but twitter.

Though I doodled this super quick sketch on stream (literally 5 min) and really liked it. The lines were super loose and fun, basically did my best to follow the (up)beat of the song that was playing (forgot which, but pretty sure it was either from Adhesive Wombat or TheFatRat). Ended up inking and coloring later.

Must try to reproduce a similar loose cartoony style soon for fun

Nov : nsyse.deviantart.com/art/Fullb…

November and december are deaaad just like last year (Because finals, though that’s every 4 months +-)

Still managed to draw a pair of commissions that turned out fantastic for Dax!

Also I resumed 3D training and made more beginner’s mistakes

December :

December is ded. I took a bunch of (4, but on top of exams lol) trades/gifts request for christmas and now I had to do them ;v;

However, secretly, instead of studying, I’ve resumed 3D tutorials and am getting confident really quick

Here’s my 3rd version of Opal : skfb.ly/WUBO

Maybe I should start posting 3D stuff to my galleries from now on :>

Also I got 2 lovely bunnies who asked for 2 commissions each! Gay bunnies multiply fast

I had the feeling I was not improving very fast this year, but looking back I think I did alright. But I can do better! My last year’s resolution was to try and do a complete walk cycle in 3D. I managed to import my model and retarget default walk animation to it. That was a bit cheap tho lol.

Challenge busted!

This year I’ll try again last year’s challenge and add: “By Jan 2018, I’ll be comfortable to take 3D commissions!”

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