{"id":24651,"date":"2023-12-27T20:59:35","date_gmt":"2023-12-28T01:59:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/?p=24651"},"modified":"2023-12-27T20:59:36","modified_gmt":"2023-12-28T01:59:36","slug":"industrious-illustrating-51-2023-in-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/2023\/12\/27\/industrious-illustrating-51-2023-in-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Industrious Illustrating #51 &#8211; 2023 in Review"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Happy holidays! I&#8217;ve been alternating between seeing my family, vacationing, and making art during break. Something I wanted to share with you guys before the end of the year is my 2023 art summary:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"910\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/diurnal-days-art-summary-2023-1-910x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-24653\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/diurnal-days-art-summary-2023-1-910x1024.jpg 910w, https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/diurnal-days-art-summary-2023-1-267x300.jpg 267w, https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/diurnal-days-art-summary-2023-1-768x864.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/diurnal-days-art-summary-2023-1-1365x1536.jpg 1365w, https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/diurnal-days-art-summary-2023-1-1820x2048.jpg 1820w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 910px) 100vw, 910px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\">Template made by @Taxkha on Twitter\/X<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">I tried to pick from a variety of art styles\/subjects I drew this year to represent how I&#8217;ve progressed as an artist, as well as how my thoughts have continued over the course of the year across each month. It&#8217;s pretty obvious that I&#8217;ve been drawing a lot of mecha lately, so I&#8217;ll likely set aside some time to draw humans <s>and furries<\/s> next year more often.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Some notes: I had the hardest time picking out a single piece in July, August, October, and December to represent my art progress, as I had so many good pieces to pick from for those months. Meanwhile, February, March, September, and November were relatively easy to pick from as I hadn&#8217;t finished as many pieces. Not coincidentally, those were also mostly the months where I was starting new semesters of college and therefore had less spare time\/energy to spend on my artwork. And in November&#8217;s case, I had two cons back to back that month and also had to deal with semester project deadlines creeping closer ahead of the end of the semester. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">In terms of what I want to do next year art-wise, I do want to keep giving my follower\/customer\/client base what they want &#8212; which is largely fanart and acrylic charms &#8212; and make great sales online and at conventions, but I also want to do more original art and make my portfolio more solid to apply for well-paying art or design gigs. There&#8217;s only so much time I have in the day and year to make both of these aims happen, of course, but I am enrolled in a scientific illustration class next semester to make the second aim more achievable. I&#8217;ll likely be posting assignments from that class next semester as I try to strike a balance in this column between art business topics and talking about my art practice itself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">That&#8217;s all for this week, and I wish all of you a happy and restful holiday season!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy holidays! I&#8217;ve been alternating between seeing my family, vacationing, and making art during break. Something I wanted to share with you guys before the end of the year is my 2023 art summary: Template made by @Taxkha on Twitter\/X I tried to pick from a variety of art styles\/subjects I drew this year to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2255,"featured_media":23610,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2089,9,776,1381,1922],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24651"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2255"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24651"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24651\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24654,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24651\/revisions\/24654"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}