Occi • Male • 27 • INFJ •

Once more I seem to have survived a year so might as well get a new retrospective journal out, comparing myself to last year and all that.

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I've definitely improved with my skill quality over this past year, getting most sure of myself in with sketching and most optimistically with shading and highlighting. I'm certainly getting a bit faster with certain steps, in fact turnaround time for some of the projects I had this past year were way below what it normally takes me. That being said, I still have some projects that feel like they take months... some of them quite literally do take that amount of time; consistency is most assuredly something I lack. If I had to pick a highlight of this past year, it would be getting 3 projects all ready to ship during July with full shading and highlighting on each of them; I honestly never expected to be able to pull that off but somehow I managed!

My social skills however feel as if they've plateaued, sure I'm still expanding my social circle and meeting new people and artists alike but that has led to some previous relationships being left at the wayside. Communication with me is rough, and if anyone out there is a victim of me just not messaging for weeks at a time I'm so sorry, know it is not my intention to make you feel ignored. I think I will for sure need to work more on strengthening the friendships I have over this next year instead of seeking new potential friends, not to say I'm suddenly against meeting new people but it's not going to be a major motivating factor of mine for a bit. There are too many highlights regarding friends this past year, not to mention listing them out here seems very rude LMAO

To wrap up this journal, some big milestones were hit for me regarding my online presence! Big thanks to all 105 of you who have watched my page at the time of writing, getting over 100 watchers seemed like an unobtainable goal so long ago but here we are!!! I can truly never articulate the feeling of appreciation towards all of you out there who took the time to watch and fav this degenerate dragon, so hopefully a simple thanks will do! Much love and good vibes being sent to all of you, whether you want it or not. Appreciate all of you who took the time to read this~

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-Your local air derg