galajo

Another 12 months. Another year-end journal. It's time for us to move forward again. Goodbye 2023, you were equal parts enriching and equal parts sluggish. While I haven't been very vocal here, I've had to deal with some things in the background this year. It hasn't all been great. At the beginning of 2023, I had a plan to kick off something xtreme in my art - and I was ready to pour time into making it a reality. However...it didn't really turn out the way I had hoped. I'm not ready to share at length about what happened - but just know that this new idea has been put back into the oven to cook longer. That aside, here's how the year went: Ups: 2023 continued to be a pretty consistent year for my art. I've been gradually learning to do more soft rendering and it's been fun to give my characters more detailed shading/lighting. My art Twitter skyrocketed to around 10K followers this year and I got to link up with a lot of new art friends. As a bonus, I even got to bump shoulders