Hi, this is the last day of 2024 for me. And wow what a year this has been for me huh. This year was pretty good creative wise, I’ve been prioritizing putting my work out there, you know trying to get a good CV going on when i graduate hopefully soon. This has been a pretty successful endeavor I got my work published 4 times this year. 1 for an art zine that got published, and 3 for some other magazines that I got in. The third one actually being very recently, since it just got published today. Funnily enough I got rejected from them last year so it’s nice to know my work improved enough to get accepted. Here’s the link to the publication

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I’ve also been making a good amount of music as well this year. I mentioned in a previous news post, but I made music for a game jam game called limbless and it got 2nd place for audio and music. That was a great confidence booster for me, since I seen myself primarily as a digital artist. This was also the first year I got an actual music commission. I got paid to make a war/military funeral kind of song, which is a style I’ve never worked on before. Client really liked it, so it’s nice to know I did pretty well for my first music commission. If you want to listen to it, here you go.

Some other big news is that I made my first solo animation. This was for my finial for my 2D design class. It was uh…. Something. I have very mixed feelings on that project considering I had very little time. But regardless I’m glad it got me an A for my class and that it didn’t get blammed here.

now i need to make better animations so that I can feel better about myself.

Family stuff has been…. Chaotic as usual. What with me getting into a car crash, finding out my family kept me from knowing I was autistic for a good 20 years before a month before my birthday. I still love my family but I think when i graduate it’s time I move on to greener pastures, especially since the area I live in is very scarce on jobs in my field.

So then what about 2025? Well the good news is that I’m working on 2 game’s OST and if everything goes well I can help out with some art on an upcoming game jam. We actually need a programmer but I’ll make a more detail post on that later. My hopes for 2025 is that I can work on commercial projects whether that be art or music. It would be nice to see that my art and music, can help me buy a sandwich or something lol. However I know this year is gonna be kinda rough, or at least this semester for me. I’m currently in the process of working two jobs. Since my family pressured me to work two jobs to help out with bills and also since I am going to be responsible for my own tuition. This is yeah….i just hope from this I can have some free time for my school work and my projects without exploding. But that’s all from me. Thank you so much for your guy’s support, i honestly can’t believe I’m at this point with my stuff. Magazine, working on some game’s, actually getting paid for music. Crazy stuff. Hopefully 2025 will good for you guys.