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2023 Summary
🕑 Added 2024-01-07 22:42:35 +0000 UTCA bit too late but still it's time to make this kind of post. More than that, it's time to not just sum up some of the resent months but make a big summary of the year 2023. It was a bit tough and busy year, a lot of stuff happened but it was generally a good and progressive year.
I became a bit more open about my kinks thanks to National Pass a Gas Day in January 7 and posted a fart artwork publicly for the first time in my life which had nothing but good consequences.
In late February my PC broke and repairs cost like two months of my apartment rent, even a bit more, it was a great shock for me and especially my wallet and I got myself burdened by comms once again. At least no data was lost.
I started making my first pixel art in Match and made a good progress at it, a very good progress, in fact I did 70% of all visual materials for my big game compilation project in 10 months and found out that pixel art is a good way to deal with stress and fill the time when I don't feel up to work on complex drawings.
I participated in an art exhibition in May when I didn't expect at all that anybody in my country can adore my furry art and ask me to make something similar, this way I tried new materials, got motivated for the future to try make more physical artworks, created my first personal OCs and since then I started working with them even more, only in pixel art for now though but still, having your own characters turned out to be very exciting.
Sadly, the second half of the year became very unproductive, I don't know why, maybe it's because I started to put much more effort in my works and trying more to make them look more diligent, maybe it's the ever growing number of online friends which get me more distracted by socials, I still can't find the way to schedule my free time, maybe it's my broken sleep schedule, maybe it's because I had to do too many comms this year due to financial difficulties which caused some stress and made me procrastinate, maybe it's because I waste too much time and sexual energy jerking off role playing with chat bots on character.ai while all this time and energy could be spent on drawing, maybe it's because my PC chair got broken months and months ago and I still can't by myself a new one and have to sit on a backless stool so my back hurts a lot constantly and makes me tired too quickly so I can't focus on drawing for too long. Too many possible factors which can be all connected with each other.
Going back to year summary, my PC got problems again in September and I finally decided to reinstall my Windows. Honestly my PC didn't start to run faster but at least with some driver issues being solved I finally managed to install different software and video games I couldn't run in past. Thankfully I did it all by myself and it cost me nothing.
October was the time when everybody including me got crazy about Bing AI image generator, I spent half of the month on it instead of Spooktober plans, you remember all that. Results were actually good and worth the time spent, especially considering that period of freedom turned out to be short and Microsoft went much stricter with censorship in just few weeks after adding DALL-E 3 to their Bing, so all the crazy dick images are now unique. It all was very inspiring and maybe one day I'll find a good use to it. Missing Spooktober was still sad though, however I still did few nice thematic pieces.
Also October was a special month when I drew a human art for the first time in all my furry artist career. I thought my mind was completely changed compared to who I was back then and that now I'm a complete furfag but no, looks like I still have some space in my heart for my old regular interests as well. I drew quite a bit of artworks with furries having a smooth human body this year, then a human commission and now I'm thinking about one other human character I'd like to draw for myself, not even just as a commission but it's a little secret for now, I'm gonna make it a little surprise later. I don't think it's something bad, many furry artists draw humans from time to time, for me it's more like evolving and broadening my horizons, I still love furry characters way more anyway.
November was the month when I suffered a fucking toothache again, it ruined the month plans for me and medical treatment cost exactly like a monthly rent of my apartment. I was so happy to save a lot of spare money to rest from comms for a while and focus on winter themed personal artworks but I had to become a comm slave again.
And now, coming closer to the present time, I got sick right before New Year, I caught a cold with all the classic symptoms like coughing, headache, body aches, loss of appetite and it all would be pretty much tolerable honestly if it wasn't another problem, I just couldn't sleep AT ALL, this fucking cold came with insomnia as a free bonus which totally ruined my New Year. For few days it was almost impossible to sleep and even sleeping pills I bought for the first time in my life didn't help much, maybe just a bit. That's why I was so silent last week, I'm sorry guys. I'm feeling better and have only a very annoying cough as the last symptom I can't get rid of so now I'm hoping to get back to drawing normally again.
Despite the lowered productivity and all my anxiety caused by it, I'm looking at my chart and see that the things on my Patreon are not so bad. As you can see, it's a bit stagnated lately but at least it's not getting really worse and if you look at the picture in general you see that my Patreon is growing very well these years. It wouldn't be possible without all your support and I'm happy to have you all by my side, happy to receive all your encouragement and appreciation, happy to see that you're accepting me the way I am and enjoy the crazy freakish stuff I'm making no matter how deranged and spoiled I become with all my wild sexual fantasies hahaha. I hope 2024 will be a better year, maybe with less financial turmoil for me, maybe with more interesting work besides just drawing, maybe I'll finish my game project this year (let's really hope), time will show. Again, it's a bit too late but happy New Year to you all and wish this year will be better for you too!
