My bestof 2017.Many months were difficult to pick from a couple few.But here's the ones I'm most happy with c:January : Tessenjutsu Dewott : nsyse.deviantart.com/art/Tesse… January was really really hard to pick from. Although I didn't complete many, each of them were great and unique. I did a lineart cartoony one, a clean digital "painting", and two messier paintings that I like a lot, including this one. Although I think the other pieces are more interesting on a visual level for their complexity, detail or colors, I think I like this one most for how dynamic and fun the pose and concept is. Kind of Pokémon Conquest meets Avatar. A raffle for my dewott friend ViviFebruary : Swiggity Swooty : nsyse.deviantart.com/art/Swigg… The bestof February was also the only of February :[ Sooo not much competition. This piece I tried to return to safer techniques I had used previously used a lot instead of the very destructive painting workflow I toyed around with in december and january.I don't dislike it but I think I should've committed fully to detailed painting or very cartoony and I kind of hit an awkward middleground with it.I wonder what happened I forgot that prevented me to draw more in february. Hm.March : Sergal Jojo : nsyse.deviantart.com/art/Serga… March was insane again.I experimented a ton and it all paid off so much.I tried charcoals and dry pastels. It sucked hard, ngl but I was having fun. They were wayy too unwieldy for making details I used to zoom in on the canvas to do digitally.First thing I discovered is you can't zoom in IRL. And my charcoal's as thicc as reality TV superstars.So instead I just worked on a few busts. Forgot to upload one of Opal I did then too (it's not as good as I wish and I remembered just now I still haven't done this yet).But the sergal I drew manggg. Still today I'm amazed I drew this. I did it as another raffle trade and enabled me to experiment once more with a mostly paint oriented workflow. It came out wow.The worst part is just as I'm writing this I think I should embrace the destructive painting workflow after all. Maybe?April : Alyssa detect magic : nsyse.deviantart.com/art/Alyss… I took the summer off and experimented a lot more once again. First good watercolor (did a couple scraps I don't like enough to scan), random collage trial (I hate it but it's different so it's here!). I love each of the april drawings for different reasons that'd take too long to list.I decided to pick this one because it's a revisit of Alyssa who I had designed literally a year ago here : nsyse.deviantart.com/art/Red-H… She was my favourite of the gang by far, but I somehow didn't consider drawing her until when I needed a furry character for DnD and wanted to play something different.So yeah I roleplayed a condescending tsundere ferret cleric girl for a couple hours. She was great.Sadly GM couldn't keep a schedule and game died (yet again).But playing that game really reignited my desire to craft characters, worlds and stories.And Alyssa's competing with Opal for who's best OC.May : Underwotter speedpaint : nsyse.deviantart.com/art/Under… I think I did this thing without trying really hard. I wanted to make a complete scenery but not pull my hair out (I hate drawing BGs). I tried to focus on mood and color and had to hold back real hard not to overdo the otter and have to overdo everything else too then.I end up being really soothed by looking at that pic and decided to buy a cushion off RedBubble with it on it to test their quality and consider if I'd want to advertise and sell products from their site I'd design.The cushion's alright but it's coarseI wanted a snuggly cushion. It's still relaxing to look at but I also dislike how the design's printed on both sides.I also practiced humans once for a commission I ended up scrapping altogether. But for the first time I drew a human I didn't find horribly repulsive and killitwithfire deal.June : Oswald and Norman : nsyse.deviantart.com/art/Oswal… I forgot when that happened, but I resumed a dead online RP with some voluntary victims. Feels like ages ago, I intended to be over before the end of summer : nsyse.deviantart.com/art/Grapp… Did some (lots) more pixels then because each time I'd show one I'd get a some "I WANT ONE TOO!" and choke on cash.Tried some figure drawing off pictures (which I either put in scrap or dint upload. The raccoon sketch was based off one of those.Tried some animootin because I'm still somewhat masochistic.Did the last commission I'd not get all money for up front :/August : Punk Tiger Fighter : nsyse.deviantart.com/art/Punk-… Went to WTFur and tried my luck at artist alleyI made 4 commissions thanks to itwas a lot of fun and received unexpected and overwhelmingly good feedback. Had so much fun I decided I needed to try again (tho wtfur is dead and so I'll be going to furnal equinox as a dealer c: )Did even more pixels for the same reason, but it had started to grow on me a lot.Picked that one specifically because I think I really liked this one a bunch and thought "Huh maybe I am actually a naturally mindblowingly good pixelartist and should make it my main thing?" # HUMBLE BRAG AM I R I G H T ? YEA BOIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII[...]September : Tyler Charcoal Badge : nsyse.deviantart.com/art/Tyler… Back at WTFur the best thing happened and a client asked me to make him a commission and ship him a charcoal badge. I'd feature that one, but I got too excited to laminate and ship it that I forgot to scan it. I made a practice and test first with my own sona to check if lamination wouldn't harm it.What was so great about it is how he was passing by, curious, I managed to catch his attention and we talked and he said what he liked was basically exactly what I was aiming for with my pastels and art in general, some kind of somewhat dirty/approximate lively style with underused medium. He was describing what I was looking for but didn't think I was managing to properly achieve. Making him a badge meant the world to me.Thank you again Adryl! ; v ; www.deviantart.com/art/Adryl-r… October : Blinx fanart : nsyse.deviantart.com/art/Blinx… Made fanart for a game that I have never played but awestruck me as a kid for how good and cute it looked. Experimented with much messier pixels there, I love it.I think it's around this time I started really accepting I could make pixelart my main thing after all (until I get bored basically)November : [To be uploaded, pls remind me]Did more of everything in november, almost flunked my finals because I lost massive interest in school for the benefit of messing around with art.I always feel down in winter cuz there's no sun and cold and snow and everything is gray. At least I channelled that into drawing.Dan retweeted my Rivals of AEther fanartI got like 60 RTs it was crazy (my best was like 8?)Still I picked Daniel the lynx as my favourite. I'm very happy with him because : New design that turned out awesome, testing out another medium (that I liked but wasnt great at), It's a failed inktober's success. That I uploaded late. Elsewhere.(It still counts!)December : Leonard the otter : nsyse.deviantart.com/art/Leona… Finals dropped hard and I wasnt ready so I stopped drawing a while, some more pixels, and this c:I like this one because I was getting seriously worried my drawing would suffer if I did only pixelart but I think it improved a little somewhat still.------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------This year :This 6th year of drawing feels like a smooth turning point.Not because of the pixels. Those are like a sharp edged detour or 90 degrees redirect.Because of WTFur.I tend to feel like an... impostor. A faker, a fraud. I should be buying, not trying to sell something *as* art.Like I'm not a real artist as it's just a hobby to me. And that I didn't deserve to be paid for a hobby. Like I wasn't or *am* not good enough to deserve that.WTFur thankfully started to change that dramatically (and the pixelart to a lesser extent).I went to artist alley thinking : "Worst case I'll get no commissions, be jealous and look stupid and miserable and get a cold harsh reality check."I printed +-60 mini examples of art and stuffed them into a 4''x6'' photo album. Mostly pixelart (WHO WOULDVE GUESSED)Thing cost me like 12$ total.Basically I tried to prepare but not overdo it or invest too much to minimize how depressed I would get.The beautiful thing is : I wasn't prepared for it to work.I cried a tear or two now and I'm really out of words.--I'm really grateful for everyone's appreciation and support and curiosity and interest and help and everything that got me to that critical turning point.The daunting point where I'm starting to wish I could do this hobby, fulltime.------------------------------------------------------------------------------Also, lol at my previous new year resolution. I did start picking up 3D sculpting but I am nowhere near ready to offer those as commission, dunno how to texture em just yet. Could try though.New one : This year no Zero Days starting now. Have a daily journal entry stating one productive thing I did each day.