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What are your art goals for 2026?

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Oddlem
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What are your art goals for 2026? 2026-01-03 07:32:39 (edited 2026-01-03 07:51:55)

Last year I focused mainly on consistency and form/structure/construction (my goal was to draw every other day which I felt like I achieved for the most part) but not enough on rendering. So! This year my goals are:

  1. To draw and color more digital stuff (even if just doodles), along with being consistent
  2. Not strictly an art goal but still! I want to get my game to be in a playable state with working core gameplay


What are your goals this year? Please don’t say nothing or I’ll throw eggs at you, goals are good to have!!

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Response to What are your art goals for 2026? 2026-01-03 08:20:32 (edited 2026-01-03 08:29:36)

  1. I wanna make more finished pieces! Goal is to have more art portal submissions than last year (which should be easy since I only posted like 3 things to the portal).
  2. I wanna do more collabs/events! I sorta wanna run one too, I have two ideas so we'll see if I do either
  3. I would like to make more traditional digital pieces and improve in that area. I haven't really drawn anything digitally (not including pixel art) in the last year that I've put much effort into and that really sucks. I think for this year I specifically want to work on my coloring and shading since thats been a huge sore spot for me. But in general I would like to work on everything. Also backgrounds. Damn backgrounds!

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I almost forgot but I wanna make an art thread at some point!

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Response to What are your art goals for 2026? 2026-01-03 08:28:56

At 1/3/26 08:20 AM, Enzo-a-person wrote:I wanna make more finished pieces! Goal is to have more art portal submissions than last year (which should be easy since I only posted like 3 things to the portal).
I wanna do more collabs/events! I sorta wanna run one too, I have two ideas so we'll see if I do either
I would like to make more traditional digital pieces and improve in that area. I haven't really drawn anything digitally (not including pixel art) in the last year that I've put much effort into and that really sucks. I think for this year I specifically want to work on my coloring and shading since thats been a huge sore spot for me. But in general I would like to work on everything. Also backgrounds. Damn backgrounds!


YESSSSS niceee these are all great goals!! I feel you on that last one specifically though, I also was way too unbalanced last year and only did traditional so I neglected my coloring/rendering skills lol


I wish you luck!! I hope 2026 goes smoothly

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Response to What are your art goals for 2026? 2026-01-03 08:29:26 (edited 2026-01-03 08:30:47)

  1. DRAW 1000 OCS ON A SINGLE CANVAS
  2. COMPLETE A VISUAL NOVEL
  3. WIN AN ART CONTEST
  4. DESIGN MORE OF MY CHARACTERS
  5. FANARTTTTT
  6. helll yeahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
  7. have fun

My art :) - My art thread :3 - Some of my OCs :]


If you're reading this: have a nice day!


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Response to What are your art goals for 2026? 2026-01-03 08:33:43 (edited 2026-01-03 08:34:22)

At 1/3/26 08:29 AM, Vinity wrote:

WOAHH 1000?? That's a huge goal BUT I know you'll be able to get it done! Those ones that push you or challenge you a lot are great if you're able to keep up, helps you learn SO much


DESIGN MORE OF MY CHARACTERS
FANARTTTTT
helll yeahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
have fun


HECK YEA solid goals, esp just having fun drawing!! Top prio!!

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Response to What are your art goals for 2026? 2026-01-03 09:49:51

1) Make front page again

2) Finish half of the webcomic script and flesh out the designs I have

3) Redo lessons in drawabox

4) Make at least 3 finished pieces with traditional art

5) Make a new design for my jacket

6) Participate in Art Fight and Inktober again


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Response to What are your art goals for 2026? 2026-01-03 10:29:42 (edited 2026-01-03 10:35:21)

Regarding illustrations in general I want to be able to "pour my mind" a little bit better into paper, not ending up with half finished drawings and stuff, and I often forget details in my sketches which I notice about like 5 hours into the drawing. Then I also want to make a project out of a steampunk world I've been thinking and writing down and sketching for quite a while now, 4 months maybe? I want to turn it into a webcomic or a visual novel, maybe the latter. It's like steampunk mixed with some medieval misery and some western stuff, but the story happens in a small town instead of the big city.

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Response to What are your art goals for 2026? 2026-01-03 10:33:38 (edited 2026-01-03 10:34:04)

1.Learn how to do 3d figures/character models

2.Experiment with more mixed mediums (resin, paint clay, more paper crafts) ect

3.Make little animations

4.Redo all my oc references before artfight lmao

5.Eventually have the funds, courage, and stock to sell at an artists den at comicon or something of the likes


Ive been feeling quite ambitious since i finished my college project a couple weeks ago, Ive been slowly getting back into the habit of drawing things daily, stepping outside my bounderies bit by bit and taking that leap of faith and actually trying to learn something new, trying not to let my stubbornness get the best of me lol


Being in college and being chastised by my teacher (jokingly lol) has made me realise how nice it feels to be productive again


Ive got rather ambitious goals this year, dunno how many ill be able to actually pull off but...one can dream lol 🌈

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Response to What are your art goals for 2026? 2026-01-03 10:42:51

At 1/3/26 10:33 AM, PsychoStatic12 wrote:1.Learn how to do 3d figures/character models
2.Experiment with more mixed mediums (resin, paint clay, more paper crafts) ect
3.Make little animations
4.Redo all my oc references before artfight lmao
5.Eventually have the funds, courage, and stock to sell at an artists den at comicon or something of the likes

Ive been feeling quite ambitious since i finished my college project a couple weeks ago, Ive been slowly getting back into the habit of drawing things daily, stepping outside my bounderies bit by bit and taking that leap of faith and actually trying to learn something new, trying not to let my stubbornness get the best of me lol

Being in college and being chastised by my teacher (jokingly lol) has made me realise how nice it feels to be productive again

Ive got rather ambitious goals this year, dunno how many ill be able to actually pull off but...one can dream lol 🌈


AWW that's great though!! I think regardless, it's nice to at least try. You'll know for next time if it doesn't work out, if it does then DANG you just ended up getting a ton done. So either way, everything'll work out!

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Response to What are your art goals for 2026? 2026-01-03 10:49:30

AWW that's great though!! I think regardless, it's nice to at least try. You'll know for next time if it doesn't work out, if it does then DANG you just ended up getting a ton done. So either way, everything'll work out!


Indeed lol its been my motto for the last few months "try, its the least you can do." so im currently working on the 3D model, been a bit slow with it but honestly Im getting something that looks functional so far a much better attempt than the last time i ever tried to do this lol so id like to say im making alright progress so far! :D

I CAN BENCH MORE THAN YOU!!

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Response to What are your art goals for 2026? 2026-01-03 11:16:20

I have a few overall goals but mostly no idea how I will work towards some of them, as aside from #1 and partly #4 they're kinda tied to my mental health which isn't something I can control.

  1. Continue working at all the usual stuff. Anatomy, perspective, colours, backgrounds, posing, composition, those are my big issues. Posing is tied to the next goal in an annoying way, otherwise this is basically an automatic win because of course I'm going to get better at those from working lol.
  2. Be less indecisive. So many of my ideas die because I can't decide what I want to do with them or how to execute those goals, mainly when I am thinking about posing but occasionally it's a composition or costume design thing.
  3. More art. Last year I uploaded 17 finished pieces, I'd like to do a lot more than that in 2026 and I am already off to a good start since I am not starting this year having to clean up after a tragedy lol. My limiting factor is usually that I lose the drive to pick up a new idea after I've finished the previous one.
  4. I want to work on new material, whether that's fan art, new worldbuilding/writing projects, or completely unique pieces not dedicated to anything in particular. I've been drawing the same settings for years and the one I come back to the most isn't even the one I want to work on, so I'd like to take back control and stop drawing cyberpunk military girls for five seconds, lmao. (I am drawing one right now, someone arrest me)
  5. More NSFW art. Mood swings always kick my ass to where I can't stay motivated on sexual content for multiple days consecutively.


And these are more like stretch goals, I won't really be disappointed if I never get to them as long as I manage to get something else done.

  1. I'd like to try low-poly 3D art because it's cute and would open the door for some other projects revolving around game mods.
  2. I want to work on animated pixel art. A whole character animation is probably too much for me because that's like doing 10 drawings in one, but a simple animated landscape scene to learn the tools is totally achievable, I just haven't found an environment that really inspires me to finish drawing it in the first place lol. Or maybe I could start putting little animated details in all my character portraits.
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Response to What are your art goals for 2026? 2026-01-03 12:12:34

  1. Be more active and revive my art socials from the shadow realm
  2. Do comms
  3. Git gud at 3D
  4. Start comic
  5. Achieve atleast one goal before GTA 6
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Response to What are your art goals for 2026? 2026-01-03 12:15:29

At 1/3/26 12:12 PM, Riger44 wrote:

Have you done 3d before or are you gonna have to learn from scratch? It always seemed like a cool skill to pick up!!

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Response to What are your art goals for 2026? 2026-01-03 12:27:54

At 1/3/26 12:15 PM, Oddlem wrote:
At 1/3/26 12:12 PM, Riger44 wrote:
Have you done 3d before or are you gonna have to learn from scratch? It always seemed like a cool skill to pick up!!

I’ve dabbled occasionally and tried to learn little bits over time but never really stuck to it. This year imma try to lock in and finally make those badass architectures and mechs I wanted to make.

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Response to What are your art goals for 2026? 2026-01-03 12:32:16

1: get more manga

2: try to make more stuff that's not in collabs

3: try to have a good year ig

4: join more collabs

5: watch more anime

6: host more collab

7: make more animations

.....that's it i guess


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Response to What are your art goals for 2026? 2026-01-03 12:40:35 (edited 2026-01-03 12:41:03)

At 1/3/26 12:27 PM, Riger44 wrote:
At 1/3/26 12:15 PM, Oddlem wrote:
At 1/3/26 12:12 PM, Riger44 wrote:
Have you done 3d before or are you gonna have to learn from scratch? It always seemed like a cool skill to pick up!!
I’ve dabbled occasionally and tried to learn little bits over time but never really stuck to it. This year imma try to lock in and finally make those badass architectures and mechs I wanted to make.


Nicee I hope it goes well! Tbh I feel like sometimes it takes a few attempts for it to click. I had that happen for other hobbies, and suddenly the third attempt it all comes together and I'm actually making stuff LOL

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Response to What are your art goals for 2026? 2026-01-03 12:45:42

My goal at 1st is to make my workspace feel much more inviting to do anything creative. After that, I just want to get back into drawing. I have so much rust built up. I'm rather excited about that since I animated my 1st paper animation 1½ years ago which forced me to flip paper to see the motion etc, so when I animated digitally after a little bit, that flipping kinda stayed in my muscle memory. I want to keep that up and be a better frame-by-frame animator than before.

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Response to What are your art goals for 2026? 2026-01-03 12:47:08

At 1/3/26 07:32 AM, Oddlem wrote:Last year I focused mainly on consistency and form/structure/construction (my goal was to draw every other day which I felt like I achieved for the most part) but not enough on rendering. So! This year my goals are:

What are your goals this year? Please don’t say nothing or I’ll throw eggs at you, goals are good to have!!


I have the exact same goals basically... I also wanna get better at animating, specifically for my game since I realized just recently how tough it is. Also anatomy. I never really studied anatomy, I just kind of rawdogged everything. I'm sure I'll be better with a bit of studying.


Happy new year :) and good luck to you regarding your goals

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Response to What are your art goals for 2026? 2026-01-03 12:48:53

  • First and foremost, keep doing it.
  • Continue hopping onto collabs I like the sound of.
  • Ray. More Ray. Ray the day away if need be.
  • Host some collabs I've been brainstorming.
  • Don't be last-minute.

Sounds like a plan.

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Response to What are your art goals for 2026? 2026-01-03 12:49:10

throw as much eggs at me as you want,im setting nothing for this year, last thing i want is to give myself a damn checklist

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Response to What are your art goals for 2026? 2026-01-03 13:19:15

same answer as a similar thread yesterday:

At 1/3/26 12:09 AM, switzrr wrote:In 2026 I hope to actually find the time to draw something again (I haven't drawn anything in months). I did receive a tablet for Christmas that I downloaded IbisPaint onto, so with the tablet's portability and convenience compared to the cumbersome drawing tablet that needs to be plugged into my desktop to be used, hopefully I'll find the time to make at least something this month.

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Response to What are your art goals for 2026? 2026-01-03 13:29:30

to improve alot and hopefully make a career out of it... it's alot, but hey dreaming BIG O.O

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Response to What are your art goals for 2026? 2026-01-03 13:44:30

At 1/3/26 12:47 PM, DimlyJolly wrote:
At 1/3/26 07:32 AM, Oddlem wrote:Last year I focused mainly on consistency and form/structure/construction (my goal was to draw every other day which I felt like I achieved for the most part) but not enough on rendering. So! This year my goals are:

What are your goals this year? Please don’t say nothing or I’ll throw eggs at you, goals are good to have!!

I have the exact same goals basically... I also wanna get better at animating, specifically for my game since I realized just recently how tough it is. Also anatomy. I never really studied anatomy, I just kind of rawdogged everything. I'm sure I'll be better with a bit of studying.

Happy new year!! I hope everything goes well, anatomy imo isn't too bad! Just need a lot of figure or gesture drawings, imo it's a matter of getting the feel for believable anatomy vs completely accurate realistic anatomy. BUT that's another can of worms, either way I bet you'll do great and will see a ton of improvement after doing those studies


Happy new year :) and good luck to you regarding your goals

Good luck to you too, and your game!

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Response to What are your art goals for 2026? 2026-01-03 13:47:34

At 1/3/26 12:49 PM, pointlessfield wrote:throw as much eggs at me as you want,im setting nothing for this year, last thing i want is to give myself a damn checklist

I'M THROWING EGGS!!!!!


Nah but that's fair! It's not for everyone to have goals set up this way, BUT not all goals necessarily need to be structured like this. Even if it's something small and general like "I want to have more fun with art", I think it's good to have at least some kind of goal to work towards

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Response to What are your art goals for 2026? 2026-01-03 13:50:40

1 get into animation

2 get better at human anatomy

3 start to participate in art events

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Response to What are your art goals for 2026? 2026-01-03 13:58:47

1- I wanna make more chapters for my comic

2- make more art overall

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Response to What are your art goals for 2026? 2026-01-03 13:59:34

  1. Finish 5 more tarot cards. I have about 11/22 of the major arcana done, so I'm aiming to have this side project finished by the end of 2027
  2. Do more studies, but specifically studies on shoulders. It's a part of the body that I weirdly super struggle with, so I would love to get more comfortable with drawing them
  3. Do figure drawing sessions at least once a month. I'm gonna try and rope my roommate into this one with me haha


Historically I also had "do X number of attacks on art fight" on my list, but this year I want to focus on my bookmarks and drawing characters I'm super interested in, rather than hitting an arbitrary number of attacks.

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Response to What are your art goals for 2026? 2026-01-03 14:18:05

  1. Try to complete my oc's reference sheets
  2. Try to start a comic
  3. Try to do animations for the first time
  4. Try to participate in more collabs, was really fun :D !
  5. Try to draw more OC's of other ppl


I like trying, but that's it p much, best of lucks on y'all goals for this year! :)

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Response to What are your art goals for 2026? 2026-01-03 14:23:40

I tried this goal last year and failed so I’m gonna try again.


Have an appealing and consistent art style and try out new poses and get better with pose construction.

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Response to What are your art goals for 2026? 2026-01-03 14:30:45

Tbh tho.

Once a week I'll upload single drawing, not everyday, since I'm doing something else, especially voices etc.

Then switch my drawing software to Garry's Mod and make some art. (I'm not uploading some gmod art on NG, like it's not worth it (for me))

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