Over the Years
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2022
2022 - ongoing...
2021
2021 brought a lot of growth in terms of backgrounds and refining my style. I delved further into exaggerating blush and details. I tried my hand at substitute teaching, visited South Dakota for the first time and started coaching again.
2020
2020 was a wild year filled with strife and uncertainity, it's also the year that I finished my Master's in June. Not only did I finish my Master's, but I upended my life and moved 5 hours from where I had been living to a city I had never lived in before and where I knew only one person in December.
2019
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2018
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2017
2017 was a wild year! I ended my junior year, studied abroad in England (my first time out of the country, as well as, traveling on my own) over the summer studying history and literature, and the start of my final year of my bachelor’s degree and the completion of my senior thesis paper which was 26 pages long.
Most of the art I produced over this year, that I finished, was done during the summer or around November/December alongside doing my first two “official” commissions. I learned a lot during this period about how pen pressure worked as I finally got my hands on a tablet after three years of digital art. I also took a quick detour into trying lineless art, but ultimately decided against it.
2016
While I’ve been immersed in the art community since childhood, 2016 is the year where it felt like my art really took off in the right direction. I was on my third year of digital art and was still using a mix of track pad and mouse in my digital works unaware that I would ever have access to a tablet within the next year.
However, the last three months of that year I did barely any art. Real life events had left me feeling discouraged and left me wondering why I made art. In the end, I wouldn’t end up producing any finalized pieces that I was truly happy with until the next year when I came to the conclusion that being inspired by something you enjoy and creating art out of the love of something is not the same a dragging yourself through the mud to find inspiration and only being apart of group for inspiration which I had been accused of.
By the next year, I would realize that I made art for fun and because I loved the community that I was in. I made art of the things I loved or that moved me and created an impact on my life.
