And Happy New Year - Blog Posts

EPIC: The Musical is a fucking bomb. Seriously, it’s good

but also, listening to it all the way through is not helpful in trying to remember the songs, especially when the brain switches up the lyrics

My brain went: “Let’s see where you’ve been! When does a man become a meteor?” And I’m like “No, it doesn’t work that way.” And the visual in my head is Mr. Jalapeño shoving MICO then the cast rowing during the livestream of the cast listening to it

Reference used on the 2nd drawing (only piece where I used reference):

The Grinch and Max

But if I made my own adaptation of Dr. Suess How the Grinch Stole the Christmas!

Seeing as it’s new years eve, here’s my digital art progress!

can’t believe i’ve been doing digital art for 5 years, I’m so proud if the progress i’ve made and i’m looking forward to another year of improvement :)

More info on the pieces + closeups bellow the cut

I’m going to go through all the pieces in chronological order so first up my 2020 piece

this piece was done Dec 3(?) 2020 and took 1hr 14min.

I had been doing digital art for 4 months at this point on my phone, but i had finally gotten an i-pad and this is one of the first pieces I did with it

My 2021 piece

I did this piece Dec 27, 2021 and it took me 8hr 17min

I started improving my shading and coloring and stopped using texture brushes for everything which made my art look a lot more uniform

My 2022 piece

I did this piece Dec 30th, 2022 it took me 17hr 44min. At this point i started getting into fanart, this is a piece of Heathers (the musical) fanart and one of my first drawings of characters interacting

My 2023 piece

I did this piece Dec 1st 2023 and it took me 5hr 21 min. (the black bar on the progress chart is censoring personal info that i just now realized is on a separate layer so i removed it for the close up)

Spideypool hyperfixation was going crazy during this time lol, I actually took the time to draw a background for this one, and I (attempted) to use more color variety in highlights and shading

and finally the 2024 piece :)

I did this piece Dec 31st 2024 and it took me 2hr 36min

I’ve really improved in character design and have much better line art and coloring, I’m really happy with this piece, it’s kinda messy, i was only planning on this being a little doodle and not the piece i used for this, but it’s definitely a massive improvement and I’m happy to be getting back into digital art again

I do an art progress sheet every year because it reminds me how much i’ve improved, I highly recommend it because even when I’m unhappy with my art, I look back at my old work and am reminded of how much I’ve improved :)

Happy new year! have this Techno as a thanks for reading my ridiculously long ramble lol