meet the artist 2026 (and some looking back and looking forward)

been doing these for EIGHT YEARS and wowie, i made another one!

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i wasn't really sure if i'd do one this year. i felt like not much happened since last January in my life nor with my appearance or person nor my art style. and probably most of that is true. i'm still in uni, still doing well, still doing the same old things in my free time and idk if i really had any big revelations in 2025. and i really didn't draw enough last year to develop my style very much. and yet. look at me.

 

ONE new thing i did this year is draw all of the lineart for this pen to paper no sketch, minimal revisions, only a bit of rearranging digitally. which was very fun.

ok maybe i did have some revelations this year. comics, for one. i want to make them. augh. i need to read more of them. i asked my illustration/storytelling prof abt ppl in the industry that might take interns. hashtag putting myself out there.

i also maybe kind of started to figure out how to socialise and like. not isolate myself. or, i pushed myself to do that at uni and it's been very rewarding because people there are actually so nice and more or less like me. #yay might write more abt this when my uni comic is done (shading phase completed btw!) bc it is about exactly that. directly connected to it, even.

first time mentioning autism explicitly on one of these. well. idk man. everything is telling me it might be worth it getting assessed but ouubgh it's SO hard to get a diagnosis as an adult, especially if you're not already in therapy (which i'm not atm, and idk if i want/"need" to). and i haven't even talked to my parents abt it because i'm hashtag scared. whatever. maybe this year we start that journey. maybe not.

something else i did differently this year is this:

 

projects i wanna work on this year. not all of these will get finished in 2026, for various reasons. Tigerhosen is gonna take some more time of reading up on the Conni & Co series and really fitting my story into the canon. and then the actual making of the comic....it'll take a while.

for The Shepherd, i want to go volunteer in shepherding for a month, for research and maybe also just for the experience. i doubt i will manage to fit that in this year. but i'll keep working on the concept and story.

The Infinite Search for a Place to Belong is my uni comic that i'm finishing this month. very excited about this. not excited to scan 90 pages of drawings once the snow around here ceases a little and i can get through to uni again.

The Becoming is my vampire short story i wrote not for but inspired by my graphic design project from last semester. the plan is to do some illustrations and print a little booklet. i have to get this one done this year, everything else would just be humiliating.

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anyway. yay.

here's to a peaceful year (bad thing to say. no peace in the world atm it seems. everyone wants to kill each other the global south for profit. everyone wants to exile human art from everyday life. you NEED to make something with your hands this year. promise me. promise me also to uninstall all the LLM and genAI tools from your devices. ok? amd promise me to sit with someone you love in peaceful quiet as many times as you can. handheart)