So I decided to make an effort to be around here more often again after weeks (months?) of absence.
I'm the kind of person who's just really bad at splitting her attention between different venues, and at the moment I enjoy hanging around Bluesky and Toyhouse the most.

I just had to purge my entire submissions inbox bc there is no way I'll be going through +1000 images to catch up, especially not with how slow Sheezy still is. I know I probably missed a lot of pretty art but it can't be helped, I can't look at the huge number and not fold mentally like a lawn chair and stay away indefinitely as a result of how overwhelming the prospect of going though all of them is for me, so the entire chunk had to go.

I'll try to look at and comment on art more regularly again, so hopefully I'll never have to look at a backlog like that again lol

Art Fight is also over now, so I'll return to drawing my regular guys, I guess.
I wished I would have had more time to do more Art Fight pieces, but some of the works I did this year were a bit ambitious, and also my day job and other stuff like Being Born Female And Thus Having To Suffer Once A Month bc Of Stupid Ass Bullshit Biology got in the way as well.

Maybe next year I'll do quicker arts that aren't so scenic, because neither did I get all revenges done in time, not did I get to draw pretty much any of the characters I had bookmarked. Aw. I really wanted to do some aeromorph pieces but yeah, ran out of time.

Plus** I have to take care of my senior dog now**, which is a demanding job bc I have to monitor him all the time, lest he pisses or poops inside the house where he stands. I had to pick up more poop and wipe away more piss in the span of last year now than I have had to my entire life with all of the animals I had up to this point of my life included, so that's saying something. I wished I was kidding, but it's a daily occurence now, and a nightly one as well, so on top of everything sleep cycle gets interrupted every night by my dog's mishaps.
Everyone talks about how much work puppies are, but I feel like nothing and nobody prepares you for a senior dog in physical and mental decline.
I love him and I want him to be by my side for as long as possible (basically for as long as life is still joyful to him, which currently it still is despite obvious drawbacks like growing joint pains and disgestive issues), but I'd be lying if I said it wasn't taxing and exhausting to the point where a more selfish part of me is looking forward to a time in the future where I my life will be more my own again. Nevermind the financial drain; we're getting blood work done almost every month to monitor his values since he has been dealing with pancreas and liver issues on occasion. I also just had to get a big sturdy kennel to keep him in when I am at work because just this week he tried to chew through one of the wooden doors in my flat in my absence.
He never destroyed anything in the house, not even way back when I first got him, so this is obviously dementia brain rot behavior.

From here on out I pretty much want to develop my aeromorph cast more, especially their humans forms, the story, and maybe even breach into animation.
I'm learning how to use Spine 2D at work, so there is that. I'm also breaching into Blender and would love to make 3D models of them, but 3D is hard man, so much technical stuff. I'm still such an uber noob. But you know what they say; practise makes perfect - or as close to perfection as one can get (... which is 'never truly', let's be real lol. But it's still worth making an effort)

I would also like to do more studies again. I feel like my art is really lacking lately, and my anatomy feels stale and stiff, and even my palettes seem to degrade now and I just know it's because I hardly draw anymore. Even at work it's mostly just editing and pixel pushing.
Plus I lowkey feel like completely re-inventing my art style. Maybe try new brushes, move away from the semi-realism or smth. There are so many cool and unique styles ones out there, and I always feel like mine's just not rly standing out against all of that. Like, my art is not bad, but it isn't amazing, either. It could be a lot better if I took the time to actually work on it and refine it more.
I would love to maybe go into the direction of Leyendecker, I always appreciated the man's values and blocky-ish shading. Or maybe Steve Purcell, which has been a long-time favorite, too.

Okay, that's enough brainsoup for now :V

Catch you guys later or smth