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My 2020 Summary of Art!

I was the most inspired in April and May, and got started with my new work rythm around October. 2020 was a terrible year overall, even for me, and yet an amazing year for my art... And I’ll write my own contemplations under the cut!~

cw: mental health themes, mention of suicide

I dropped my artschool in February. ♥

I’d started going to this new, expensive school in September 2019. The first few lessons were extremely useful, and taught me better ways to approach drawing, but it quickly went downhill. My health was at its worst, I couldn’t stand it anymore-- I didn’t even realize that I was starting to have suicidal thoughts again, when they’d had completely stopped since I’d started seeing my therapist. I was struggling, and the school’s administration was no help. If anything, they only made matters worse. I kept forcing myself though, as myself and my family had paid a lot of money for me to go to this school... But I simultaneously started to realize the teachers were straight-up bad. They were all artists, but almost none of them were actual teachers. They treated their adult students like kids while simultaneously yelling at them for not being more mature, and most of their lessons had no actual value other than to make us practice in a rush.

Not too long after I stopped going, and when I was done going through the immense guilt of having wasted everyone’s money, I realized I didn’t necessarily want to die. So that was my introduction to this year.

I participated in two Danganronpa-styled RPs around February/March that weren’t all that, but inspired me to create a season 2 for my own RP. Despite my difficulties with the french Danganronpa RP community, I managed to find and build a group of understanding, and interested people who participated in my RP and were, a large majority of them at least, very kind to me. Thanks to that, I was able to create a space to explore my main story (WIP! I would like to publish it eventually!) and some OCs, old and new. This inspired me to draw them... more and more... oh, and Thus Spoke Kishibe Rohan: The Run came out, making me realize that muscular bodies cool look great AND were extremely fun to draw.

As my OCs were a team of highly-trained secret agents, this was the perfect opportunity, and I was inspired to draw more and more. From that point on, I realized I was having fun drawing, and most importantly, that I was satisfied with what I drew, and I continued to draw both my OCs, and any and all fanart I was inspired to create.

I felt a little bit of an artblock by the middle of the year, but in retrospect, it made a lot of sense. I’d suddenly drawn so much the few months before, of course I would eventually burn out. It still felt important to me to continue going forward with my art though, so... I focused on what I needed, explored different methods, and still drew a few good pieces. 2020 is the first year ever in which my Summary of art isn’t missing a month.

Around October, I started to take my new work rythm seriously. One day I’ll write for my current main project, @murderfabrication, and the next I will either draw or rest. Because of that, I found myself drawing almost every two days. Between October and December, I was even able to draw Danganronpa sprites and a Danganronpa-styled illustration for pleasure (and Murder Fabrication ofc) again, when that had become a chore in 2019.

This year is the year I enjoyed drawing. Something always felt off before, because I had no idea what I was doing, but that’s over. I’m still not great, but... some of my art is good. It just is. Hell, I even drew a few profiles this year-- that’s how confident I am. I started drawing in a sketched style because I realized that was what I enjoyed the most and, oddly, that allowed me to get better at sketching to the point that when I do lineart now I actually... don’t... need to do lineart. My sketches are now so confident and solid now that I barely ever need to edit them for the final result... when I’d been known for my terribly messy sketches for years.

Yeah...

I don’t expect anything out of 2021. I always hope for the worst, so I’ll either turn out to be right, or pleasantly surprised. But I’ll continue to work the way I’ve been working these last few months (this very week doesn’t count - I’m on break!), and I hope to be able to draw more things I like.

If you like my artstyle in any capacity... Please look through my art this year on this blog. I’m really proud of it.

I apologize for my long absence and inactivity. I’ve already explained most of the information I’m about to share on my Instagram but with how busy things were and my phone not working, I never got around to explaining it here. I feel really terrible about my lack of new content/Kevamie art, so I feel as though I deserve an explanation.

I still really love Kevamie, and still have so many plans and ideas for it. Things just got hard once I was mourning, and it sent me into a major artblock. It got worse when my insecurities over my art started making me have awful feelings, feelings that would constantly make me feel like a terrible person and cause me to breakdown many times. The only motivation I’ve had to create was for vent art/edits, most being of Jasper from camp camp since he’s been a huge comfort character as I’ve been going through all this. I feel bad any time I draw or make something that isn’t Kevin or Jamie related, but I normally vent with specific characters that struggle with the same feelings I’m having. I usually use Kevin for vent art, but he just didn’t match the feelings/situation I was struggling with. I took time to focus on myself and rest until I was able to get out of this emotional state. I’m still struggling on being able to detach from certain triggers, especially when they’re everywhere and hard to avoid. It always brings back negative thoughts and sends me into a panic anytime I see it.

When the su movie was coming up, I was so excited about finding some motivation to get back into drawing su and Kevamie again, but when school came back, I was forced to give up the iPad since I would be ‘too busy to draw anymore’. It’s really complicated, as the iPad I’ve been using for years was never really mine to begin with, and has now been taken away. I’ve literally spent a whole week trying to save years worth of work and unfinished drawings/projects that I never posted or got around to finish. I won’t be able to draw digitally for now, but I’ll try to save up to eventually buy a new iPad for myself so I can get back into drawing and making edits again, it’ll just take a lot of time since any money I save usually ends up being used for school supplies. Until then, I’m stuck on doing art traditionally. It’s really frustrating since I was always proud of all the effort I put into my digital art. I always thought that my ideas were a lot more believable of something that could actually happen on a show, but now it’ll be hard for me to achieve that look as I’m not as skilled compared to what I’m able to do digitally. I apologize in advance if my content won’t be good as before. I’ll be sharing some old artwork/edits I never got around to posting on here. I’m working on some rough sketches for ideas, but they take a while since I’m usually busy creating art for school. It’s why I’ve mainly been making a lot of new video edits since I’m at least able to do that on my phone.I’m still dealing with bad feelings so I apologize if the majority of my art/edits are vents, but I’ll try to create actual art as well to get out of the bad habit of making vents all the time and instead focus on creating something more positive.

If you’ve read everything and made it this far, thank you for taking the time to read this. I’m really really sorry and just hope I haven’t disappointed you guys