Hello! I know it’s already the end of the month but I do want to keep my promise to at least post something monthly so here I am. December has been pretty hectic for me, which was why I didn’t post or write much. I had been preoccupied with my personal life and off-line activities — I made a mental note to not use the term irl or in real life, because BOTH online and offline are real to me and I don’t differentiate or create any persona whatsoever— I barely had the energy to draw, and when I did, external factors just had to cause a little bit of disturbance.
Now without further ado, I don’t intend to have this post be a recap post because I drew hundreds of art this year and I don’t think I want to crowd anyone, even myself, with my art. So what I’m going to do is compile a quick timeline of what happened throughout the year. Before we move on to the list, I dare you to count how many times I quit things this year.
January
I was still working in my family’s factory this month, it had been short as I only started in November 2024, but I made the decision to quit in January, just before the year of the Year of the Snake begun. There were many reasons but overtime I just didn’t see myself working there, and I wanted to stick to my motto: to not mix friends, family with work.
February
I applied to a permanent position in Milqilin as a guest artist and was thankfully accepted as one of their PGA in February.
March, April, May
I actively made adopts and made double the minimum wages through my art constantly each month. My income mainly came from the PGA sales and commission work. My most expensive commission being custom design work for Meiiru on Vgen which includes a full commercial use.
June
I had a problem with paypal so I ‘quit’ using it to receive payment. I was pretty sad that I couldn’t withdraw the money I’ve earned the previous months. I got scammed too and lost 99% of my savings despite needing to buy a pen replacement. I stopped using Paypal even on my vgen too so I did lost some customers, but I also gained new ones.
July, August
I moved back to my hometown, it’s 2 hours away from the capital. Life there was slow but I was happier because I was surrounded by cats. I continued taking commissions and went on multiple off-line workshops, ranging from make up, ceramic painting and korean glass art.
In August, I made the decision to give up my position as PGA in Milqilin. I was thankful for the opportunity but I don’t think I want to make a living off of making adopts. I did enjoy designing these two months, some of the work I did, I was pretty proud. August was the month I fell in love with my own designs again which led me to quit Succubuns 21+ and got myself self-banned. I also decided to stop giving most of my time to arpgs and adoptables species.
In August I also made the decision to change my username from suikou1111 to Alienatedfl0wer. Suikou1111 was my actual chinese name but pronounced using Japanese onyomi, and as for 1111, it was an angel number that means “You are on the right path”. I chose it as part of my username because I wanted being an artist to be my right path. But now I know that I’m on the right path all along, I gave the number up and chose to believe in myself more, baring myself under Jasmine @Alienatedfl0wer.
September
I think I sold my first mascot base? I noticed my most popular commissions are for mascot art or mascot custom design and I honestly took pride knowing that fact because making something cute in my opinion is not as easy. And to have people liking my mascot art, makes me happy. This month I updated my art style by changing the brush I used.
October
I joined Vampichi, the species reminded me of keychain rua, the first species I joined. I also made the decision to ‘quit’ commissions. I don’t want to be relying on comms in the long run. October I also picked up my diary back and started journalling again.
November
You know what happened.. I blogged again! I don’t think I quit anything in November, if anything, I created my best art in November (the blog’s banner which contained most of my mascot ocs)
December
I was pretty bummed that I didn’t won the vgen challenge and I think I want to stop joining them. This month though, I quit saying yes just to keep the peace or be nice. This month I reopened my comms, and my main reason was to ‘force’ myself to draw. So I was using my comms to cope. I was honestly super proud of this month’s commission work that I wanted to gush about them in one whole blog post.. but alas my time is running out, 2026 is coming.
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| Custom Design and Omakase Headshot (Personal Use) for DetachedBeauty on Vgen. This was a custom inquiry and I’m super in love with how she came out! |
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| Custom Mascot Design (Somnivores 18+ ARPG) for TigerAngelz on Vgen. This is the second time I’m working for Tigerangelz this year and everytime I’m in love with the mood board and concept they provided in the proposal! |
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| You can freely change the colors and combinations to better suit your oc! |
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| The base costs $12 and can be used for multiple ocs that you own. You only need to buy once! |
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