My 2021 Art Recap - Part 1/3

Hi everyone! Happy New Year!!!💜💜💜

2021 has been the wildest and most productive year for me so far. It will be really difficult to outdo it in 2022, but I will certainly try. 💜😁 I must say it really flew by, but also a lot has happened in relatively short time.
This is quite a long post, so I've decided to cut it up into 2 part, half a year each post.

I also hope to make a small brainstorming/plan for 2022 (no promises though, as I like to be flexible and I just want to organize various ideas I have)
Feel free to request art process post for any of the paintings I've shared below and haven't covered before. I plan to share the process for The Magic Garden and a few others, but I also don't want to be too repetitive. My art process is pretty similar from painting to painting.

To start it off, my last year's resolution was to do 1 year of daily sketches. Really happy to share that I managed to complete the challenge and I believe it greatly helped me as an artist. I want to finish a lot of the dailies into detailed paintings, but I keep getting new ideas so I'm working through them very slowly. At least I have a lot of backup sketches for whenever I'm out of ideas.

(This is the first half year of dailies, I still need to take the time to properly compile the second half. There are just so many files)

If you'd like the see all of my dailies, you can check them out in my Tweets bellow, disregard my wrong numbering :)

My New Year's resolution for this year is to actually Meditation/journaling daily. I'm not as strict as I was with Daily sketches, but I feel that meditation will be very helpful in improving my focus and self control when it comes to finishing projects.

My first NFT of 2021 was a Cat flying to the Moon- I guess I predicted 2021 pretty well 😂 The kitty is owned by MrMe3p 💜

In January I had the fortune of doing a Makersplace featured drop, little forest spirits inspired by my family :D

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Also in January I did this collab with the amazing OrabelArt. Once I catch up on a lot of the work, I'd love to do another collab with her.

I'm always really happy when someone lets me know that my work is someone's very first NFT. It's a really special feeling and unforgettable 💜💜💜

In February I got a Cintiq and have been painting on it since. This was a huge step and a dream for me becoming a professional artist. I'm extremely thankful to everyone who ever bought my art as they made this possible. Painting has always been my passion and I plan to do so much more art on it.

2021 has been an awesome year for the Memes. I had the pleasure of painting a few that really resonated with me.
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I've been developing several distinct art style simultaneously. The styles affect each other, but they're also really different in colors and elements I use. One of my goals is to push details and perspective further for 2022.

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I've almost reached 200 Pixel Cats for 2021. I was tempted to mint a few more just to reach that milestone, but I decided quality is more important than sticking to unnecessary deadlines. I definitely want to finish the Zodiac Cats in the following couple of months. Also got a 3D printed that I need to learn how to use ;)

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I still can't believe I got to collab with the created of Nyan Cat, @PRguitarman who is incredibly sweet and friendly, really an awesome creator and a positive influence in the art community.
I remember as a teen listening to the Nyan Cat song and it was one of the first Memes I really vibed with. 😊

In March I finally got my own website, made by my husband: https://www.kristyglas.com/
There I post any latest news or big drops. Also you can more easily browse all of my work and galleries on one place.

For Easter I designed another Cryptovoxel Gallery, along with Easter egg hunt.

Around this time I also did another adorable collab with @Lelapinmignon, eggs that later "hatched" into amazing Dragons 😁

This was one of the biggest collabs I worked on with 21 other artists 💜 "Major Arcana as interpreted by 22 individual artists" is a functioning Tarot, highly recommend to check it out and try reading the cards. Limited print physical Tarot deck coming out soon!!

https://async.art/art/master/0xb6dae651468e9593e4581705a09c10a76ac1e0c8-1524

I made this painting for the NFT Boxes April Box, theme was Schemes, curated by XCOPY. It's still one the of the painting I'm most proud of 💜🐱

Full post for the Covenant: https://peakd.com/hive-156509/@kristyglas/the-covenant

Last but not least for this post I wanted to share I've been featured by DeviantArt 💜 😁 This is an awesome achievement for me, I've been posting there for over 9 years now.
You can check out my interview here:

https://www.deviantart.com/team/journal/Artist-Feature-kristyglas-903026266

Thank you for reading!!!