Now, I barely draw. I've got all the equipment, all the tools, all the sketchbooks, and yet I don't touch them. I never recovered from not choosing an art degree and it's haunting me. Yes, history was the perfect choice with actual career paths, but there will always be a longing in my chest. With the end of 2025, I was hoping to do a monthly review of all my art from that year, each month having its own drawing, but there wasn't enough for it. How could I not have made 12 finished and fully rendered drawings? It's almost a betrayal.
So this year I have to do better and this is the perfect place to try new things.
A project I had in mind was to illustrate my favourite moment in each Sherlock story I read, slightly inspired by Watson's diary , which can then be included in each review I post here. That way I can even engage with the text more than I would otherwise (fighting brainrot one book at a time).
Additionally, I want to try my hand at OCs. It's always been the one area of art that's left me feeling like the squidward meme (where he looks glumly from a window whilst spongebob and patrick are having fun) but since I've declared this to be the year of writing, there will actually be substance for my future OCs to survive off of. The goal is to have 2 characters ready for artfight this year. That feels like a reasonable deadline.
Those are the main things I want to attempt that seems realistic. Luckily the existence of this blog actively makes me want to be more productive because on some level there is an output, even if people don't see it. Maybe doing things for the sake of sharing them online may be harmful in the long run, but right now it's the drive to keep me going. So, prepare yourselves for illustrated reviews and maybe original characters in the future???
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| The last piece of art I made for my friend's OCs |
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