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How's everyone's holiday's been going? Mine was a whole mix of different emotions ranging from gleeful to "what the fuck is my life!".

The Sketch Collab recently got released, and here's my submission:

Had no choice but to leave it unfinished that time. Though, if you want to see more of my unfinished project check-out my WIP & Abandoned Projects thread. Just made a new post there.

In other news, I still have no idea what my living conditions will look like for 2024, but I know for certain it ain't starting on the right foot. Though, it should get better overtime. Don't really know for sure since everything is pie in the sky at the moment!

But enough of that. That's not what people are here for right? The update can wait, you want to see the pretty pictures and a bunch of numbers do ya?

Firstly, I'm gonna add a new thing to these monthly updates:

~~Artist of the Month~~

That's right boys, I'm gonna start promoting other smaller artists I like! Starting with @PITBULLMUTAFUCKA!

Do you like chaos? PITBULL'S GOT YOUR CHAOS!!! NON-STOP, ALL CAPS, 90S LEVEL CHAOS THAT NEVER KNOWS WHEN TO STOP!!! Ocasionally stopping to smell the roses, BUT IMMEDIATELY GOING BACK TO MAXIMUM CHAOS!!!

THIS YOUNG ARTIST HAS A SURPRISING TALENT FOR THEIR AGE, AND WILL BECOME STRONGER IF YOU GIVE THEM YOUR ATTENTION GRUAAHHHH!!!

~~Old Art Showcase~~

A simple little doodle I did in a couple hours on New Year's day. Nothing much to it, just fitting for the occasion

~~Fanart Highlights~~

Although technically not fanart since it was part of the Secret Santa, @ucantbeme did a wonderful job drawing Ryjer. Give them some love while you're at it!

Next, @Twoeliz did some fantastic fanart of Holrad taking a nice snooze. They were so heartfelt with the gift I gave them that they had to repay the favour. Thanks again, and go check 'em out if you haven't.

I've also made a playlist of all the fanart that I've received so far if you'd like to see more

Now it's time for the highlights!

[Almost makes me want to create a calendar with all these pics. Let me know if you're interested]

And here's the stats for this year:

Unique Art Posted: 32

All Art & Alts Posted: 44

Animations Posted: 2

Comics Posted: 2

Events Participated: 5 *NEW RECORD*

(List Jam, 3DS Collab, NG Toronto Meetup, Sketch Collab, and the NG Secret Santa)

Front-paged: 2 *NEW RECORD*

Missed Deadlines: 1 *SO CLOSE*

(The Christmas Special)

Abandoned Projects: 5 *BRUTAL*

(Most of them animation related)

New Back-Burner Projects: 2 *NEW LOWEST*

Total Back-Burner Projects: 7 *NEW LOWEST*

Stress: 7/10 *YIKES*

Variety: D *TOO MANY BUNNIES!*

Overall Ranking:

A

[Could have been an S if I had more variety, and didn't miss the last deadline]

Compared to 2022, I didn't put out as much art, and I was mostly bunny-posting (unintentionally following the year of the rabbit). However, behind the scenes I was learning a bunch of programs (Blender, Inkscape, and Opentoonz to name a few), learned 3D, Built a new PC that isn't made entirely from parts I found in the dump (just the case for it), found a really good workflow, got my priorities in check, and I started writing these news posts on my phone in advance so I don't forget things like...

...How my projects got front-paged twice this year! (the collabs don't count) I'm so thankful that my work is finally getting a bit more recognition, and I hate myself that I forgot to talk about it whenever it happened

Unfortunately, even though I was able to make the deadline of every time-sensitive project compared to 2022, I had to delay the Christmas Special for next year. Ain't no way I could crunch to get that one done on time with the 5 other drawings I had in the pipeline, and it wouldn't make any sense to post a Christmas drawing in January. It would have been a mess if I rushed it out, so delaying it was the better option.

In general 2023's highs were really high, but the lows were equally really low. Honestly don't know if 2023 or 2021 was the worst year stress-wise. Like, good god, I got emotionally wrecked at times. But also, I've got to meet a whole group of new friends in 2023, I even met Tom Fulp himself. It was such a emotional roller-coaster!

~~>Last Month

Oh my god, the stress was unbearable with all these projects, but I was able to finally take a decent break after that. It was worth-it though, got to learn a few more little styles from all that, and got lots of nice kind messages from everyone.

Even though the Secret Santa was a fun (and stressful) challenge, this will probably be my last Secret Santa I participate in. Mostly because I wouldn't be able to keep-up with the Supporter gift drawings I'm doing every year now, and because I find the supporter gift drawing more fun and rewarding compared to the randomness of the Secret Santa stuff.

~~>Next Year's Plans

NO! MORE! BUNNY! POSTING!

[At least, not as much]

Last year was full of Holrad drawings, and as much as I liked doodling that little bunny bitch, it ain't drivin'-up the views no matter how much effort I put into these drawings.

To compensate, this year will be almost nothing but fan-art. Starting with a recent public domain character and his relatives, and if that takes too long expect a quirky drawing with a certain cat I drew before.

This year I'll also focus on doing more animations. I'm good at them, but I hate being so freaking slow at animating things

Depending on how things go, you might also see the debut of a few comic series, and maybe even my own personal website. These aren't guarantees, but they're going to be really nice treats if they end-up happening.

2024 feels like it'll be a really good year for me if everything goes well. Just the beginning of the year will be rough as hell because of life getting in the way

But that's enough blabbering for one post. Don't even think most people read this far anyways, and this was a pretty jam packed news update as well. Hey, that's the holidays for ya.

Have a happy new year everyone, and see you next post!