Year in art 2017

[Damatris]

It's the last day of 2017!

Let's share our summaries of what we've been up to this year art-wise. What do you think you improved the most? Any revelations about your process?

What I learned, I mostly make illustrations in bunches so some months were super hard to fill while others had a ton of stuff. :’D Couldn’t find a single non-comic thing for September… And January had only stuff like that xD

I think I improved most with the use of contrast? idk... Also, did a bit more cell shading than before in the fall. Tbh, to me it has felt pretty static year illustration-wise.

Comic compilation was much, much easier to do. And I realized there's been some really big things happening this year in Fallacy. My biggest improvement has been comic layouts and no one else is gonna see them in months... :'D

I got the template from here

Fallacy | Tapas

[Chopythes]

Oooh, nice progress!

I don't really have the time to do the comic one, but that's a really neat idea! I might do that next year instead ;D

But here's mine, I don't think it's been much progress on my side xD

[gateofselidor]

Mine was basically all comic (and only two scenes from the same chapter, at that) except for December, when I actually managed/needed to get other things done. It has not been a good year for productivity, and I struggled to finally finish chapter seven. It's done now, though, and the change of scenery, plus the fact that I'm only a couple of chapters from the end should push me to make more progress in 2018.

[alarnia]

Kind of hard to list what areas ive improved in. But if I were to guess: Anatomy, especially facial anatomy, did a ton more color work, slowly getting a better grasp of backgrounds and depth too. But most of all I feel like my linework had gotten much much stronger. But I kind of hope it would considering how much inking I do. My early pages of Rubyslippers all look so clumsy now compared to my new work, even though I made them at the start of the year!

I've done sooooo much this year, this summary barely scratches the surface

Bonus pic that I made after assembling my chart:

RubySlippers | Tapas

[VikiKuli]

Here's mine! It is all from side projects from my comic. Happy New Year!

[Shanny8]

My 2017 has mostly been Ray Thunder(again), but I did other projects here & there. I'd like to work on a comic using halftones/screentones like I did with my Ray Thunder Valentine's Day comic(featured in February and here- https://tapas.io/episode/602163); it was a fun project that I enjoyed very much while keeping it minimalist.

[Noglastiaa]

Unlike last year, i ended up drawing something every month which im very proud of lol
I also did many more fully colored works compared to last year which im really proud of ^^

[Evan]

Last year I kept my art style the same:

And this year was no different, so instead I used my animations:

If you click on them, you can zoom in.

Penciled | Tapas

[hades]

This is always fun.
I made this earlier for mine

was kinda stagnant but that's okay

[VibrantFox]

I don't think my art changed all that drastically in the past year but I've been trying off and on to work better on backgrounds so I'm hoping to really tackle it more this year

[Mharz]

Here's mine. I did less artworks this year than last year since I was focusing on my comics. I'd say it's a pretty good year.

I love seeing everyone's progress! Keep up all the awesome work! : 3