2016 Art Summary

[dagronrat]

2016 art summary by DagronRat on DeviantArt

Thought about putting the Brexit doodle in, but found some big paintings I'd worked on instead. :D
(Also I went 6 months without updating DeviantArt, oops.)

A much less prolific year than last, but it's been one of many doodles (tumblr), beermats, and a number of ambitious projects & commissions (giant panda, photomontage, red pandas...) I'm not too unsatisfied with that. :)

How's your guys 2016 been?
(Mine's been mostly okay apart from politics, work stuff turning sour. I'm going into 2017 with quite a number of goals in mind which could be quite exciting. :D)

Comments

[dagronrat.livejournal.com]

Oh my goodness! Do you know it's awesome to hear of someone who's had a great year? Only other person I'm aware of who's had a golden year of it has been Andy Murray (/and some people that make me despair at mankind, lol, but Andy's golden.) I'm so chuffed for you. :D

Good luck on job hunt and writing! :D (/I wrote like 1900 words this morning because it had been too darn long since I'd done any creative writing. Damn. Something to do more of next year.)

[fs-playground.livejournal.com]

Happy New Year to you, too. You've been much more prolific than me when it comes to art projects. :) I love the cuddly animal pictures. It makes me want to draw animals as well.

[dagronrat.livejournal.com]

Haha, by the sounds of it, you've had quite a busy year. At least you're still writing/updating fairly frequently. :D

(Hugs) Glad you like the cuddly animals. :3 Animals are hard! (Like Giraffes literally feel like drawing stairs.)

[dagronrat.livejournal.com]

Honestly, positivity is a great thing to have, and pooh to those who rain on such parades. :)

*Throws confetti in air. :D*

[rae00.livejournal.com]

I left IBM and joined a startup, but whether that's good or not depends on how things go for the next couple years, haha. For now I think it's good; it's nice to see things from a different perspective (small business vs huge business) for instance.

[dagronrat.livejournal.com]

I understand: most of my jobs have been in small businesses, and the odd one or two that were business felt very different (although I was still working in small teams.) Strangely enough, the big business jobs always had the biggest moaners/least involved co-workers, then again it could just be that one of those jobs was literally babysitting one-armed bandits for the local drunks to waste their money in, or working in a school that was very cliquey and squeezed for cash... Not that we don't have moaners at my current job, but they certainly have a lot more reason to complain beyond general consumerist neglect of workers happiness. The big disadvantage of small business is effectively security. I hope things go well for you! :D Learning experiences are definitely valuable to have and to look back upon.

[rae00.livejournal.com]

Yeah...Well on the bright side it should be possible for me to get a job elsewhere even if this falls through, because demand for software engineers is generally high. I wouldn't like it though. I really want this to work out. Thanks. :>