Yesterday was (I am pretty sure) day 365, which means I did it - probably the single longest-term project I’ve ever managed to complete. This is the part where somebody actually goes and counts everything to prove me wrong.

The days where I just plain had no ideas sucked, it showed in the quality of the output, and those days got more common as it went on. A lot of those were maybe 10 minutes start to finish, usually within an hour of midnight.

A goal of all this was always just to have improved my skills, and I am not really sure I can honestly say that happened. At least not on the scale I had hoped. I came up with several new gimmicks but the linework itself doesn’t seem to have gotten amazingly better. I did manage to get a better hang of vectors though, which is something I had little ability with before.

The other goal was to prove - mostly to myself - that I could hang with a project this long-term, which was more successful but still not perfect. I did miss a few days, and that’s not entirely negated by having done the drawings for them the next day. A deadline’s a deadline after all.

So anyway, thanks to all the people that gave requests, I tried to be creative with them. Sorry about the ones I didn’t do (just didn’t feel I could do them justice). I’m not going to stop drawing, but I’m probably also not going to post daily. I’ll still take requests, but I still won’t guarantee a result. I’ll still have the hole in time to fill and I very much doubt it’ll always have something else in it! Maybe I’ll still improve. Today is official Break Day though! … unless I think of something to draw.

- Akaishi