New Year Ret 'roo' spective

As is tradition, I've waited until way past New Years to talk about the New Year and plans. :P

I split it into multiple parts because I can't shut up...

Part 1/3

First, a personal retrospective

2023 was a challenging year, depending on who you are. Mine was neutral, mostly okay. It was a rough bout of unemployment carrying over from 2022, but I had a lot of free time. I took a lot of (really terrible) short jobs to balance things while trying to get back to work. My finances are only starting to climb back up after securing a more stable day job, sometime in November.

Thank you everyone for sticking around to help fund these insane sketches and art projects I do in the meantime. You all helped me out a lot!

For media influences, MyHouse.wad and "The Thing you can’t Defeat" opened my eyes to the horrors of DooMentia, which lead to a terrifying spiral of (literal) DooM-scrolling and other nostalgic (and aesthetically retro) media.

I rewatched one of the earliest inspirations I had for TF Art for Halloween's stream (Tales from the Crypt: Demon Knight) and it's okay. It had better writing than I remembered, was WAY gorier than I remembered, and way shorter TFs than I remembered.

In November, I discovered Jack Stauber's Opal, rediscovered Charlie Kaufman's I'm Thinking of Ending Things, and found a lot of lostwave media (if you watch my streams, you've heard "Like the Wind..." enough times). Overall, its been a very reflective year as I continue to feel inspired by weird, old media as it gets grainier and loses itself to time 

How about a personal art retrospective...?

Oh right! Yes. Drawings! Art has been going well, as of last year. Numbers aren't very interesting, but I finished and published:

• 11-12 commissions* (one is private; many are sequences)
• 11-12 personal arts* (including the "Point of No Return" head sequence and "Transdermal Celebration" fan-art)
• 49 finished "Ideas From a Hat" sketches for patrons-only! (only 1 cancelled idea)
• 1 Secret Santa gift.
• Only 1 Patreon-reward image escaped ("Portal Pants Part 2")

We'll address that last bullet point (the elephant in the room).

Normally, I'd share pics at this point, but almost none of it is SFW, and this post is public :S

You can always go to my gallery FA and view this stuff for free (18+ mostly):

PostalRoo's FurAffinity

TL;DR - Life, Numbers. Blah, blah, blah.