memoire of 2022

27 December 2022

 



hello dolls, dears, & teddy bears....

it's been awhile  i could talk to you like this, and am soso glad to be back to blogging after months of absense. after months of very slow progress my new & improved blog is now here and isn't it just adorable? ꒰ྀི เน‘ ´ ˘ ` ू ꒱ྀི
please do take a look around because i spent quite awhile on it! 

although wix was easy to put together and i still recommend it to anyone wanting to build a website without worry of coding or money, i personally had a few troubles with it that didn't work the best for me.. mainly- the blog feature wasn't really customisable to the extent i would've preferred, 
and was honestly really annoyed with the large intrusive "this site was made with wix" banner that took away from the aesthteics of my site ꒰ ˶> ༝ <˶꒱
anyways....

so, i suppose i'll give a small timeline of notable 2022 memories for me- which 
isn't a lot because i can't remember most of it actually, i didn't get to journal as much as i would've liked, actually does anyone remember the sketchbook i shared on my now defunct old sketchblog? i never finished it! soso sad..
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♡ i had a really fun year with goatlings!
    ⤏ i joined the Sweetheart Celebration and made my first friend on site (Giggle if you read this hello!)
    ⤏ made 26 page dolls at my Summer Night Carnval booth 
    ⤏ managed to get a spot on Team Ribbon Mummy during the Monster Masquerade 

♡ this year has been rather catty
    
⤏ my big boy Prince Gardfield Binx (or Prince for short) had run away for 21/2 days- despite this incident being unfortuantely traumatising for me, it also finally forced me to start talking to my neighbors who are all very sweet old couples i was too nervous to speak to for years 
    ⤏ following Prince's return we decided to adopt a kitten, Duchess Cheshire, as a playmate for him because i noticed while he had run off he was playing with the local strays that he always watched from the windows

♡ finally, it's been a rather positive year for my art & writing despite the setbacks of getting a kitten preventing me from illustrating tradtionally for awhile
    ⤏ i have completed all the notable character quick concept art for my longtime project "schneekugel der rosen" and have compiled a good amount of worldbuilding together. ill be sharing more about this next year
    ⤏ i was gifted "Clip Studio Paint Pro" for christmas gift, although digital art isn't my preference i have wanted this program since i was 13 years old so it's veryvery exciting to finally get to use it and strengthens the possibility of making a few projects i otherwise might've avoided
    ⤏ i finally accepted a true commission order for the very first time in years now that i finally have a personal bank account again after years of being incapable (unfortunately as part of the agreement i cannot share it until am given permission from the client)

and that really makes up the most of my notable memories from this year, 
so onto the fun things ꒰ ⑅˶แต”แต•แต”˶꒱

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the holidays have just passed (finally) and wanted to share my most favourite gift i recieved this year!
besides some cosmentic brushes, bag, and another vintage plastic doll there was one very special gift i recieved, a new antique bisque dolly for my collection ♡
i decided to name her "Carol" since i had quite A Christmas Carol obsession this december- i just really adore that story, i think my favourite remains to be the Muppet version because i love the Muppets.. 
she has a bisque head made in Germany while her body is entirely made of cloth. she's not a very large doll, but i don't mind 
(especially since am running short on space;;)
unforutnately as the threads were so old her head will require me to sew it back in place, i haven't had to repair a doll like this before so going to research to see the best way to go about it..

while this isn't holiday gifts, i would also like to share a collage i made of all the art which i recieved this year. ideally i would love to feature everything individually, but i don't have time to do that this late in the year without it being overwhelming so instead i put it all together ꒰ྀི ៸៸៸៸ เธ꒱ྀི
if you would like to know who the artists are this same collage can be found in the "treasures" page with links to everyone featured here! thank you to everyone who had made me art this year ♡

unfortuantely i couldn't fit everything here, i am missing quite a bunch of things i commissioned and won during goatlings Summer Night Carnival;;

o!! also this came around before i made the blog public so going to include the darling secret santa i got this year by ceyln in rinihimme's discord server! it's of my character teddy ꒰ྀི ◌´ `◌ ྀི꒱




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next i would like to share a few of my most favourite sketches and a few other things i made throughout this year. unfortunately all of these are digital as i was incapable of working with my traditional materiasl since getting a kitten until recently. i anticpate next year returing to normal sketchbook..

"one of us is fake, how does that make you feel?"
two variations of my storybook self alongside the lyrics from one of my favourite songs "goodbye april doppel" from nekobolo/sasanomaly

concept art of my pokemon sona character blythe heart, 
they're a pokemon coordinator and fashion model roped into their uncle's corrupt schemes-
i have a whole story am working on ꒰ྀི เน‘ ´ ˘ ` ू ꒱ྀི

and this is actually my last major sketch of the year!
blythe alongside their lover, one of the main protagonists of the project, 
lilith!


"i am everywhere, all at once, until time itself comes to an end. it's a cruel way of life, but atleast it allowed me to save you, who lis like another son to me...."
have you listened to Everywhere at the End of Time? it was kind of trending a little while ago, the series of albums that steadily become more corrupt as it goes on representing the stages of dementia.. 
this sketch is a vaguely inspired by that, featuring my character friedrich drosselmeyer who is a time entity speaking to a human he had become attached to and did all he could to ensure he would live a fulfulling life Fate fought against happening.. 
more of friendrich and the human will be shared later on because their story is a sister to "schneekugel der rosen"


a very quick fanart i made of jane doe from the musical "Ride the Cyclone" i hyperfixtated on a couple months ago. she's a character i veryvery quickly grew attatched to, she's amongst my comfort characters now ꒰ ྀི◞͈ ˔ ◟͈ ྀི꒱

the graphic i made for my profile and as an entry during goatlings Monster Masquerade representing Team Ribbon Mummy 


a small selection of the page "penny" dolls i made at my booth during the Summer Night Carnival in goatlings, these were my favourites i made!

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and so, this is the end of the first and last entry of this year..
i debated going over in detail all my new plans regarding the future of my social media usage and the way am going to go about with my art in general, and public resolutions since the blog is completed and finally content with it, but, i'll save that for the first blog entry of the new year in a couple weeks!

thank you soso very much for your support throughout this year,
i can't wait to speak to you again more in 2023 and share all which i work so hard on..

see you soon
goodnight my dears
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