This is a blog for my original universe, as seen in the perpetually-unpublished novel I've been working on for over twenty years. It probably won't make much sense to anyone but me. (My main blog is katieskarlette.) All related characters and designs are my intellectual property and cannot be used without permission.
For the first time in like twenty years I actually created finished art every month of 2024, so I can do one of these year-end art memes! (Oh, and since the last half of the previous year was productive, too, I made one for late 2023, as well.)
It was tough to pick my favorite from some months, although April and November 2024 only had one picture to choose from. I disqualified any art that was reworked from an older piece.
Zero AI used. October and December 2024 have stock photo backgrounds, but they are royalty free and legit to use.
I don’t know if there were any major changes to my style or ability, but it’s fun to look back.
There’s nothing like grief and chaos to break a 24-month streak of having new art every month. Sigh.
2025 was not kind to me. I lost my dad in April and went through remodeling/mold remediation hell in August-October. The low quantity of my art output reflects that.
I cheated a little to make this review slightly less sparse. First, I included all my 2025 art, even if it was more than one image per month. Second, unlike previous years, I included two that are technically very old pieces that I redid in a paint program (the left one for February, and the one for April.) And, last but not least, I included the best piece of fanart I’ve ever gotten as the picture for July, because even though @thebirchwood drew it, they’re my characters, and I grin like a loon every time I see it.
I did draw a handful of other pictures (just portraits, nothing major) in the second half of the year, but none of them have been colored or scanned, so they’re not included.
