I saw @adversary1 post his Best Nine from 2017, so I figured I’d try to pick what I think mine were!
It was hard to narrow it down, given that I did so much this year. And only some of these are ones I’m sure about ... the knight, yes, definitely, and the water strider, and Umbrella Maul, but of the others I only know I made major progress during my bug paintings, Inktober and Huevember so I’d like to represent those somehow. Those are probably my current favorite bug paintings, all containing something I think I handled best in that particular painting (the water in the water strider one, the background detail in the trilobite beetle one, the shine on the shell of the zigzag beetle, the composition and shadow in the stag beetle one, and the colors and textures in the io moth one), and the cracked kyber crystal is probably my best Inktober drawing, but I’m uncertain about Ossë representing the best of my Huevember paintings. He’s definitely the best one from the Silmarillion series, but I might have some Star Wars ones that are better. He shows up best in thumbnail form, though!