2023 Art Summary

Dec 31, 2023

It both feels like it's been way longer than a year, and like the year's end has come too quickly. But overall, with all of its ups and downs, I feel like it's gone well ^^

And likewise, I feel like my art has gone well! As with last year, it's nice to pause and look back over everything I've created, and to remind myself that even when it's felt like my work was much too slow, I still managed to produce a lot of pieces I'm proud of, and even a few months where it was difficult to pick just one to show off here!

So many things over the course of 2023, more than I feel I can even remember right now. Picking up new and old hobbies, getting myself more active, improving my mental health... It's all a work in progress, still, and the world continues to be difficult to deal with. But it's gone much better than previously.

Again, I'm incredibly thankful for all of the support everyone has given me through all of this, through the slow periods and the productive ones alike. And I hope that all of you have had a good 2023, but regardless, let 2024 be a fresh start towards positive outcomes!

Maple (character profile)

Dec 30, 2023

One final new character for the year! This time, say hello to Maple <3

Another Paeran with cow traits, much like Mabel, and in fact they're pretty closely related as a result! Able to ruminate and thus retrieve any tiny people she might swallow, and she most certainly does swallow tiny people with relative frequency~

Unlike her more mischievous, teasing peer, Maple is decidedly a sweetheart through and through, always aiming to be kind and friendly to those she meets, as well as just generally showing affection to everyone in equal share. The only catch in all of this is, quite simply, her nature as both a paeran and a cow-girl; to her, tinies simply are food in addition to being friends, and swallowing them is perfectly safe to do as well!
She's not entirely oblivious, and can still understand that, well, not everyone wants to be eaten like this. Of course she doesn't ever see it as a problem to do so - and occasionally gulps her friends without warning just to 'save' them from someone like Mabel - but she's thoughtful enough to ask from time to time, if a new friend wants to be the sort of friend she plays with, the sort she keeps around, or the sort she happily has for lunch...

sharing spirit (Christmas 2023)

Dec 21, 2023

Something as elaborate as a fully-decorated gingerbread house is most definitely something that should be shared with friends! Though how exactly to 'share' such a thing might depend on perspectives; for the tiny friends present, they probably should have seen it coming, how Aya, Gwen, and Yuumi were going to participate in playing with such a delicious diorama...~

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A fun, 'simple' idea that I inevitably got carried away with, edible houses are too good an opportunity to pass up when the theme allows :D And an opportunity for three more characters who haven't had a feature in a while to get in there before 2023 is over!

I hope everyone has a lovely holidays, and onwards into 2024 <3

Giselle (character profile)

Dec 18, 2023

And another new character before the year is up! Someone completely fresh this time, say hello to Giselle <3

A paeran, half-chiiname and half-tsubashii (long-tongued and with beast-like aspects), in her case it seems that she's got some elements akin to a giraffe in at least her tongue. A tongue she loves to make use of; long and limber, she enjoys licking food and tiny people alike out of hard-to-reach places, even if sometimes it would be just as easy to use her fingers instead. Where's the fun in that~?

A playful, even a bit mischievous nature, though she's a pretty calm and casual individual otherwise. When she's not wriggling her huge tongue down into tall glasses or fishing around inside cookie jars, she likes just hanging around town, visiting shops, sampling food, seeing what all the fun humans are up to in their day-to-day lives. She's just always on the lookout for opportunities to make use of that limber tongue of hers and collect some tiny folk when she spots them, you can never have too many tinies around for later... (her eating them is optional, but it's usually her that gets to decide that :D)