It’s another birthday comic! 🥳
(no, today is not my birthday…it’s actually in October! but these take me some time to make.)
This is the second on my “birthday comic series”—you can find the first one here. It was quite a year, but all’s well that ends well, right? right…???
This morning was my first time attending a ✨ botanical sketching meetup! ✨
It’s a local group that meets once a month in different parks to draw/paint some nature. I’ve been wanting to paint outside more AND I’ve been wanting to share with other artists, so this was a win-win situation! Plus, there’s something about “go paint around the park and we’ll meet back in an hour to show what we did” that really forces you to focus lmao…..
I got to draw and paint 3 different trees in an hour, which was…surprisingly faster than I expected? Like, what do you mean I can draw and paint a tree with watercolors in about 20 minutes? That’s not even too long! And it’s fun! I should be painting more often!!
I had a SUPER BUSY end-of-year season at work, so this is up a little later that I would like, but!! here it is!! THE YEARLY HOBONICHI POST…!!!!
(note: I’m posting this in 2026, but I started writing this in late 2025 so every time I say “this year” or any variations of it, that’s 2025! okay you get it!!)
This is my fourth year in a row using the Hobonichi Weeks as my main planner, and I honestly don’t see that changing anytime soon. This year I even went a step further and got a second Weeks that I use for my job—let me tell you how that went!
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This year, Hourly Comics Day got moved a week to February 8th—which happened to be the very last day of my week-long vacation. Overall it was a good day, with lots of stay-at-home adventures!
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The demons are back! 😈✨
I’m really enjoying how this is turning into a series…a really slow one, where I draw an average of one comic per year, but a series nonetheless. It gives me a lot of time to let ideas simmer before I commit to them—I must have written about 10 different variations of the text on this, until I found one that clicked.
(last updated on February 6, 2026—edited the background to make it look less busy)