Hiii, I am glad to see you in 2023 and I hope it will be a great year for all of us. 2022 was globally a very grim year but I hope and believe that 2023 will bring change and more peace to the world.
Personally last year was the best year of my life; I was freer than ever and found a voice in my art and I am really happy about that. Being in the closet at home I was always afraid to share too personal stuff aka my art, but now I feel very liberated here in Rotterdam ♡ For this year I've set resolutions, and the ones specific to me as an artist I wanted to share with you today. I grouped these resolutions into two categories, “professional” and “soul” (I know that sounds a bit stupid but I don’t know how else to call the second one)
Resolutions 2023
The overarching goals for my art this year are to detox myself from digital art, creating a healthy balance that works for me, while also becoming a professional artist (aka make money and focus fully on art) The part of digital detox is also what this drawing is about.
“Soul”
These “soul” resolutions are about what type of artist I want to be and what role within the world I want to play and creating art I feel proud of in the future.
Now that AI art is only getting better, it made me want to do more traditional art and detox from digital art. I love seeing the final product in my hands and being able to experiment with textures and aspects that are lost in digital art. It just feels better to draw on paper then on a screen for me currently. I just want to create art that is independent as much as possible from the digital world. I know it’s a bit silly but on top of AI in art, avatar 2 also inspired me for this digital detox. The movie just reinforced my idea that basing my art practice in the real world and nature as much as possible, will lead me to be more fulfilled and happier. Social media often just makes me feel not good enough and lazy, so I guess this detox is worth a try! I won't completely give up digital art though, just will do what feels good to me right now and work on myself.
Another thing I want to improve on is my art skills in general, I feel like I don’t do studies enough, especially since my education is mainly conceptually based and lacks studies and more traditional approaches to art education, I feel like I need to do that farrrr more. I was thinking of starting a study series or livestreams. Let me know if that sounds interesting.
The last thing I want to change is that I and myself as an artist, want to speak up more on politcal things or just things I feel need to be adressed. We as artists have a neat power to speak just with visuals and I feel like I can work on my art prtactice in a way that I feel like I am not just creating for the sake of creating, but creating with purpose in the world.
Oh and I want to create art everyday (be it sketchbook, or final piece, etc.) ♡
“Professional”
With professional I mean ways in which I share my art and make money as an artist. This is something that I feel like I have to do the most work in this year, because in the past I just made my art and then it just existed without being shown or used for something and I feel that’s a waste of protentional.
First, I want to open a shop and sell commissions. Both things I hope to start in February. I really want to start making money with my art, but also worry about if I am really meant to become a professional artist or what if I don’t have the passion, dedication and discipline to do this...BUT ILL TRY and just ignore the doubt monster (fuck u doubt monster u asshole) Through selling my art at a real market in person, I realised that just prints of my art are not as cool as using my art within products, like stickers, notebooks etc, so I will have some fun things besides just prints in my shop. I also will continue my sticker project this whole year.
Another thing I find important is the way in which I share my art. Obviously social media is important and I want to post more regularly including YouTube, BUT I realised that I need to be far more active in my art community around me, because these real and in person connections I value much more than followers (even tho I like those too tihihi). So basically, I want to join art groups etc. around me and create real life art connections instead of online ones. Part of this is that I want to exhibit 3 times this year, I really hope can achieve this while also attending more exhibitions. I CAN DO THIS I BELEIVE IN MYSELFFFF
I know these are a lot of resolutions and I bet only me has read this far WAIT, okay, the first person to dm me “I have sharted on your blog” will get a free sticker set HAHA so this way I can test it mwahahah. I might turn this list into a video, but for now this is it, lets see how Sirah in one year will respond to this :3 I hope you have an amazing year, I hope we do, we deserve ittttt ♡
P.S.: I know that for December I did not release a sticker pack or a second blogpost, this was due to all the uni stress and then me going home for the break where I don’t have a scanner or printer available for stickers. I promise that for January there will be a December and January sticker pack release at the same time and the prices will change too YAY.
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