After a packed year of conventions and art events, I’m reflecting on my 2022 year and planning my next one! I feel like I spent more time learning to write than learning to draw. I wrote more blog posts, more promotional stuff and more story things that I've been sticking with instead of burying it away in my files.
I opened a Ko-Fi page early in the year to make first draft tutorials, such as my Game Store Tutorials and Art Process Articles. In the Art Process Articles, I add sketches and thumbnail art for potential large illustrations.
Blackmask is going alright. I didn't need to do as much artwork for the demo compared to last year. So I got busy making a new website made to promote the coming game.
Since my programmer has everything he needed from me to work with programming behavior and movements, I could hang back and focus on dealing with my personal convention stuff, scouting for places to show off the demo and writing to develop Cole and his world more. If you want to keep up with all the development news and going ons, join the Blackmask Mailing List for monthly email updates! You can also follow our updates on Twitter, Instagram, and YouTube!
The biggest thing on my mind at the beginning of 2022 was doing Gallery Seven in Lockport, IL. There I had my original comic pages for Shirley's Day and Incident at the Game Store framed to put on the wall.
I tabled a large amount of conventions and art events for the first time in years. Most of my commissions took place at conventions. To my surprise, I was able to work on people's OCs over Fan Art, which brightens my day as a person who like messing about with character designing!
I'll make more of a point to take more time to do commissions at a later date, not only to make extra scratch, but also to take my time to help people out.In the meantime, you can look through my Commissions page to see my future prices.
The future will be bright! I'm interested in furthering my mind, body, and art as usual and keeping myself sharp. For my New Year's resolution, I'm practicing with my digital art tools, instead of buying new software and forgetting them.
These rabbit characters are spur-of-the-moment sketches I drew in the ArtFlow App on my Samsung Galaxy Note 9. I still get bothered by how my phone pen feels, but like my iPad, I'll give this a bigger chance.
There's no significant plans for 2023 besides continue what I've been doing. I'm putting less effort into maintaining my social sites than my own website now. However, everyone else is out in their little "town squares" I might just keep my face out there as well. But to reiterate, here's a list of places you can follow me.
With that, I say to keep up the hope in the future, take a walk sometimes, and have a happy new year!