Chronology has never been my strong suite - I tend to easily lose track of time and days melt into each other. So, with the kind assistance of the only form of time travel technology I readily have access to... social network posts.
So this, apparently has been my 2015...
January: Apparently, January 2015 was largely consumed by
Dragon Age: Inquisition, because God Damnit, Bioware - when you make a game you sure do your gosh-darn best to make it really appealing to me. The only other notable event I can piece together was a gear shift I've performed in my art classes, when I've left charcoal and chalk behind and switched to
oil painting, which I've come to greatly enjoy as a medium. (Apparently I've uploaded this to 'charms later than anywhere else. Thing is dated January 26th everywhere else). This, along with
an art trade with Sami, was all I've drawn in January... something that unfortunately became a trend this year. Not the most productive year I've had art-ways, for sure.
February: More
Dragon Age: Inquisition, and a number of movies. Sometime towards the end of February we've had some snow storms up north, and the 'rents and I headed up north. As a counterpoint to a picture from the year before where I pet a snowball like a mad scientist's cat,
I made a full-on snow cat. It was glorious. The month ended on a slightly less happy note when Leonard Nimoy has done something immensely illogical and died, which, at the very least, interrupted a shitstorm-in-a-teacup about a dress.
Apparently all I've done art-ways that month is my
first full color oil painting. Welp.
March: A new fandom burst into my life -
Steven Universe! I've ignored SU until that point as I expected it to be another modern Adventure-Timey bullshit cartoon... And then an episode occurred that indicated that this show actually may have the sort of world-building I particularly enjoy (and for fuck's sake, bacteriophage-shaped drill machines!), started watching it and instantly fell in love with the show. For a while my gemsona concepts (none of which I've drawn yet, good grief) kind of ate my mental creative world...
And then Terry Pratchett died, which was fucking depressing, tbh. On top of that, elections hit Israel and... big surprise, the idiots who live in this country that I'm unfortunately stuck in have elected the same panel of absolute goddamn morons that have been grinding it into the dust for the past god knows how many years. On the whole, not the most brilliant of months - but at least it ended on a positive note, when thanks to an unofficial translation patch I
finally got to play Tales of Vesperia.
Art-ways, I've uploaded my
Spring Time design (which was actually a colored version of a much older doodle), a digital painting experiment of a
landscape of some sort, and this
Footballeon commission for
@Kyubeon - which, if memory serves, she got quite a kick out of. </obvious-yet-still-godawful-pun>.
April: Seems to have been equally divided between
Tales of Vesperia and
Borderlands. A silly doodle of
Repede (from the former) as Doge, some art of the
rookie-stage Digimon from the (Semi-defunct?) Digimon RP I participate in have also happened, but the best piece of art from that month was most definitely my birthday present for
@SteelMineral, a Gatomon with
some personalized touches.
May: May apparently was a mass of terrible puns interspersed with a few pieces of art. There was
a Mawile. There was the
first oil painting that I'm truly proud of and wasn't just a practice piece and some gift art for
non-charmsian friends and
family. And in the background, there was another piece, that was only finally completed in...
June: where I've finally completed my contribution to the then exploding in popularity
Pokémon Breed Variation tumblr meme, as well as
this ludicrous 'loom and a
Wild Rose (as
@SteelMineral and I were running through Ragnarok Online at the time and she, being the crazy cat lady she is, obsessed over the things for a good while). Apparently the theme of terrible puns continued into June, as well. In news less related to me that month - but ones that made me and many of my friends very happy,
in a stroke of actual logic and human decency, the US did the right thing for a change and legalized gay marriage country-wide in America that month, which led to an eruption of Facebook rainbows (and a quick photoshop of Tychus Findlay with a rainbow Marine suit, because... hell, it's about time).
July: July was kind of a turning point for me, as circumstances aligned that led to one of the most important changes that my life. I've been put in touch with a certain translation company and began a process of a job interview. I didn't get the part I applied for, but I
did enter into a contract with them as a freelance translator - which became my first (and current!) proper job. It was also the month where I lost a significant portion of my soul to the
Mass Effect series, FINALLY getting to play it after all these years and falling in love with it. Incredibly, July was also one of my busiest months art-ways this year - between a
cover image for Facebook, a number of silly sketches involving the
Gastly Line and
Random Character Designs, a sketch of a
pseudo-cetacean creature that actually got colored and this design featuring
Bastet, which has been in discussion with a certain Rain for ages, and I've only finally done when an art contest for cat-related designs surfaced that I entered. I didn't win, obviously, but it did get my art a few new viewers... which is something too, honestly.
August: A lot more
Mass Effect gameplay, and the actual beginning of my work as a translator. Also, my first ever Escape Room experience in real life (which was fun as -eff!-). Got hit by some form of a sickness apparently, but I cannot remember the details. Also apparently sometime through it all I got distracted from my Mass Effect playthroughs to get sucked into another playthrough of the
Phantasy Star series... Which I believe crashed and burned due to some game-breaking bug in 2. *shrug*.
No art at all this month - but my art classes kept on going, and something I've been working on since May would soon be released upon the unsuspecting world. But that is a matter for-
September: Which started with the unholy realization that "We Are the Crystal Gems" and Radiohead's "Creep"
follow the same chord progression, continued with my finishing of my first play-through of the
Mass Effect series (And a fond adieu to my lovely Vanguard Femshep, Adrienne) and approached its end with the culmination of four and a half months of art class work - my oil painting of
Commander Susan Ivanova - because, after all, Ivanova is God and she deserved all the work time she got.
October: A VERY LONG OVERDUE upgrade for me - The Dell from Hell, which has served me faithfully for years in spite of falling apart at the seams towards the end of its life, has finally been put out to pasture and replaced with an absolutely lovely Alienware 15 (which has yet to receive any name aside from "The New Machine"). A Wacom Intuos Pro tablet has also joined my art arsenal - though I've not done much with it at that month due to... well, another Mass Effect play-through, this time on PC with an Infiltrator Manshep this time (which I really need to get back to tbh). It is a time of holidays in Israel and so there wasn't much work. Overall a quiet month.
November: Job kicked into RIDICULOUSLY high gear. Barely had time to breathe, but still managed to find some time to make some
fricking epic cinnamon rolls, see a concert by a really awesome musician... and even managed to squeeze in an
art class piece (a brief interlude from the piece I've been working on since I finished Ivanova and am STILL working on!) and a
silly tablet doodle. I also bought myself Skyrim, because it was on sale and
because I could.
December: What little time I spent in December NOT working due to a mad rush of projects towards the end of the year, I spent falling into
Undertale (and drawing some
fan art thereof, and I
really need to do more), doing another escape room, actually getting my claws on StarCraft II at long last... And celebrating 30 years of being stuck on this goddamn planet. (And 31 years of
one of my favorite people on the planet having been stuck on it, too, but hey)
Also, Christmas I guess? I mean, I don't celebrate it. But it didn't stop me from throwing in a
Mari pun.
And that was my 2015. Gaming, bursts of ridiculous movies/series watching which I obliquely remember but didn't document too well, some art, and then the complete and utter consumption of my goddamn soul by translation work.
What's in store for 2016? Probably more translation work, hopefully more art, and gog knows about anything else. I try not to make too many long term plans - those tend to explode dramatically.
As for art... *loud screeching of "MOM GET ME AN ART TABLET"*