Cerynitian's 2013 Art Summary

Yeah let's just say I've improved quite a bit.

Lemme give a basic rundown of it all:

January: Kinda knew how to draw chibis. I couldn't draw much but for a moment I could draw chibis pretty well. I aspired to draw humans, so I practiced with chibi anthros. Eh.

Had no clue about opacity lock/clipping layers

Still didn't use clipping layers.

I had the brush on a certain brush tip and it made my lines horribly jagged, and I did NOT understand fur and the way it flowed. Anatomy wasn't very good either. Yuck.

I did figure out how to use textures, so something turned out good from that month.

Still lack of clipping layers~

Clipping layers were still something I had no clue of.

I learned more about shading during this time. Highlighting hair, shading in general, imagining a light source.

I learned my own way to draw eyes, and guess what else I learned! Not just clipping layers, but LAYER BLEND OPTIONS! I learned all about multiply, screen, overlay, all that junk! [thank you for giving me that quick lesson!]

Though, before I knew it I was a pixeling monster. Friends would look at me in horror as I turned my head and hissed at the brightness of an open door, my eyes red from staring at the screen all day, pixeling.

Though, I did create my first lineless piece USING clipping layers [which is the art in the frame]. That was pretty vital, since I there after learned that clipping layers were kind of THE MOST AMAZING THING IN THE DIGITAL ART UNIVERSE.

I learned in September the absolute WONDERFULNESS of the marker tool, a tool I had never before dared to touch in the program of Paint Tool Sai. I now use it for shading, highlights, and wiping my rear.

I was also feeling a little empty during November, thus the piece in the frame was created. For not drawing humans, I can still say I'm really proud of it.

I sort of began to grasp the concept of speed painting, and how you don't need lots of detail to create the feel of it.

I actually had THREE arts I wanted to display, but I picked the one that had a new style I never did previously in the year.

Through the wonderful work of reading tutorials, I learned how to draw in a lineless toony style on Adobe Flash CS3!
For a brief period of time I only did art that way, though now I'm going back in between styles again, pixeling here and there, toony art, lineless, humans, you know.

Overall, I feel like I improved greatly in 2013, and I can only hope I still have the same aspirations I have now throughout the year. My goal is to get good enough at humans that I can have my own art style for drawing them, though perhaps I won't master it til another year after this one. Lots of work ahead of me!