{"id":9768,"date":"2022-04-27T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-04-27T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/?p=9768"},"modified":"2022-04-27T02:27:49","modified_gmt":"2022-04-27T07:27:49","slug":"2022-the-year-of-ryan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/?p=9768","title":{"rendered":"2022: The Year of Ryan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>We&#8217;re only through four months at this point, but I&#8217;m ready to announce that 2022 has been <em>pretty darn great<\/em> to me so far. I could go on and list all the things that have put me into the happiest state of existence I&#8217;ve ever been in, but let&#8217;s just cut to what is currently The Big One:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A couple of weeks ago, I was asked by a team at work to provide an illustration of some description for our internal newsletter. This is&#8230; possibly the highest honour I&#8217;ve ever been granted. I&#8217;ve done commissions for people before, but this is&#8230; <em>official<\/em>. This is going to be published. And not <em>self<\/em>-published! Sure, there&#8217;s nothing in it for me but recognition and self-satisfaction, but those are two of my favourite things!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Of course, I proceeded to spend hours on a piece, only to decide that it sucks and throw it out two days before the submission was due. But hey! That&#8217;s the life of an artist!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I did turn out a pretty okay product in the end: a relatively lengthy (for me) comic strip about going back to work at the office. It&#8217;s not my best work, but I don&#8217;t think that I drew anything <em>at all<\/em> in 2021, so I&#8217;m shaking off the rust here. And also, like I said before, I only had two evenings to churn it out, so. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;ll share it here eventually! But not today. Sorry!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Despite it not being my proudest work, being given this opportunity is definitely one of my proudest moments. I&#8217;m super happy right now! And it&#8217;s probably only like half because I&#8217;m up at 2:30 AM on a work night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re only through four months at this point, but I&#8217;m ready to announce that 2022 has been pretty darn great to me so far. I could go on and list all the things that have put me into the happiest state of existence I&#8217;ve ever been in, but let&#8217;s just cut to what is currently &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/?p=9768\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">2022: The Year of Ryan<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-irl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9768"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9768\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9769,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9768\/revisions\/9769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}