crunchin' numbers with art

The topic of analyzing which months and seasons tend to be the "making art" ones came up when friends and I were talking about who had seasonal depression and when (summer vs winter). I've always wanted to break down the raw numbers of how many pieces I've created to see if there's patterns, and well, here you go. :o 

Some of these numbers may be slightly inconsistent from the totals and my "great krad art dump" (a free folder of all the art I created from 2011-2020) since I deleted the rare NDA and extremely personal work from there, and also won't include random sub-folders that are about other stuff.

Predictions (made before analyzing) 

• Numbers before 2014 may be sketchy because I know i created slightly more (especially in physical sketchbooks), but wasn't always consistent about putting it in my system of folders that I do now.
• Relatedly, I ramped up the number of artworks considerably towards the end of collage (2014) to try to hit ~360 artworks every year; haven't always hit that goal but I've been fairly decent about deliberately maintaining a leaning close to it, iirc.
• Making IRON CROWN (2016-18) might give it weird spiky monthly inflation bumps given I was cranking out comic pages like no tomorrow and also patreon content. (I uh, do not recommend that since it made me burn out hardcore for a while after lol)
• Definitely expecting a dip from August 2019 - March 2020; had a little-d-depressive spell from ~IRL drama~ that absolutely cratered any inclination to art. Expecting a smaller dip recently for similar reasons from uhh, fall 2021, I think? That was before i nudged myself in something similar to art therapy. Maybe there's an existing pattern of a fall dip? :o which would be freaking sweet to know in anticipation, ironically.

Results....




( Commentary + Conclusion )