i only noticed recently lol sorry my ng game’s been weak lately (and last year)

i started uni a month ago (which is still a little bizarre to me) and it’s been mad busy since. i actually don’t really mind doing the work uni gives me but it all just means i havent been really active on social media at all (scrolling through my twitter likes is a dire experience)

i think we start actually animating stuff towards the middle/end of the year so hopefully i’ll have animated stuff to post then :o] yay!

ok bye

As Christmas comes around the corner, so does the end of 2022… and good riddance! I think this year in some ways was the most difficult I’ve faced in a while, I lost some friends and I gained new ones as well as a slew of personal shit in real life and I expect that 2023 will follow suit and kick my ass all the same cus some of these things still haven’t been resolved. I’m pretty resilient though so I think I’ll be fine. 

However, it wasn’t all horrible cus I think I had some of the best times of my life this year! So I reckon why not recap my year with Newgrounds like I did last year. Hopefully, it’ll be a fun journey :o]

At the start of the year, I provided cover art for @dungeonation's Pico VS Bear DX and @SlickRamen's Peter's Quest! The Peter's Quest drawing was actually done in 2021 but ahhhh fuck whatever.

While working on those, I also signed up to help with the NG Winter Fest Opening. I’m still pretty proud of how my part came out!

At some point, my break was over and I had to return to my school duties but it was a nice warm-up to get a start on my year! Still, I managed to find ways to work on anything else but my assignments 😅

In February, I participated in the CapSteve Zine (Google Drive ver). I remember thinking to myself, "Well, if I'm going to be in this gay ass zine, I might as well lean into it." So I drew Steve and Captain holding each other and singing karaoke to one of my favourite songs, Take Off Your Pants by Planet Booty. I almost animated it but I didn’t have enough time to do that.

@VoicesByCorey asked me to make a Twitter banner for him, I'm still pretty jolly about how it came out.

Earlier this year, I used hold twitter spaces (they were chaotic and scary so I don't do that anymore!) and during one of them, @itsreddqueen said she had an idea for an NG collab where artists draw a tarot card with each card being based on an NG character/property. This was turned into the NG Tarot Card Collab!

I celebrated my one year anniversary on NG! I hope there are many more years to come.

Pico Day was moved to June 11th and on that day Fulpware was released!

@RGPAnims asked me if I wanted to be a part of it somewhere in April and of course, I accepted even though I was pretty sure I wouldn't have the time to do it. Alongside animating a microgame segment, I was tasked with the job of working on the cutscenes. Here’s a Twitter thread that goes more in-depth into that. 

I also asked Jeff to voice for the after credits two days before Pico Day. I'm pretty sure I got the lines the morning of the release. I just remember in my drowsy tiredness laughing at the lines before sending them over.

(Screenshot of my original Fulpware microgame concept. Sadly, I got anxious about it and ran out of time. I'm a jittery, busy fella!)

From then on, things got sort of quiet because I was still trying to finish school. From mid June to September, I was focused on doing (barely any of) my schoolwork. Despite my massive (and VERY IMPORTANT) workload, I still didn't want to do it. I animated a bit during this period but most of the stuff I made were short, rough or unfinished.

But at least I still managed to get some proper-ish drawings out!

I contemplated even mentioning this but I guess if I’m recapping the whole year I should recap this. @redtailfins, @bigferret and I run a Twitter account called Real Newgrounds Facts. Over the past two years we’ve used this account for heinous and immoral activities (spreading rumours and lying). 

In late September, we ran the Newgrounds Ship Showdown. When making the brackets, I jokingly suggested that Joey should add Tom and Jeff as competitors because I thought it would be a FUNNY GAG. 

Instead Tom and Jeff ended up going aaaaaaall the way to the finals in a battle against Sanford and Deimos. To be honest, one of the reasons they got so far could've been because we had to shuffle the brackets because we put a heaping total of FOUR Friday Night Funkin' ships. It's ok though, thank god Sanford and Deimos ended up winning. We live to see another wonderful day!

Starting off October right, I was crowned User Of The Day! For some reason I don't have a screenshot of the actual UOTD feature on the community page. Whoops!

I participated in Nightmaretober, a drawing challenge similar to Inktober and Drawtober but completely centred around Nightmare Cops. It was organised primarily by @GhastlyDungeon and @Rendezvousramen, the latter of which I didn’t mention in the original posts because I forgot :'o[ I didn’t do much except make the prompt sheet so props should go out to those two!

(I feel like I can't say enough thank yous to @TomFulp and @JohnnyUtah for promoting Nightmaretober! Even though I didn't organise anything, I still feel super grateful about it. Also, thanks for getting the NC twitter account to follow me lolol)

I tried my hardest but at some point, I just couldn’t keep up and I gave up by day 24 (which is the longest I’ve ever lasted in one of these). Still, it was super fun and seeing everyone else's Nightmare Cops drawings made me feel like a kid on Christmas!

Here are some of my favourite Nightmaretober pieces from other people!

Also in October, Dungeonnation released the Faces Of 2022 Collab! Not only did I draw Tom from Castle Crashing The Beard but my own face was drawn with a completely accurate description to boot!

(@Marccelothepinter made me very handsome! Thank you!!)

By the time November rolled around, I was completely dead. A drawing I made at the tail end of October was uploaded to Catboy PhantomArcade Daily! That account is… freakish... but I’m good friends with one of the people who run the account and he's drawn me tons of stuff so I just had to pay him back. Not my proudest moment though, I'll be honest!

You can also view the drawing in better quality here!

Another thing that happened in early November was the release of Toy Story 2 Redialed! My part was made last year so it's pretty outdated. I drew the characters pretty cute so whatever.

The rest of November was almost completely dedicated to me preparing myself for the NG meet in Sydney which had been in planning since a little after Fulpware was released.

QUICK RECOUNT OF SYD NG MEET UP!

@nexketch did one of these already but I still wanted to write something up!

I went with Joey (@redtailfins) and Ethan (@CrabFunk)! I was incredibly nervous about coming to this meet up (@Luis had a very stern talking to me about it!) so it definitely made it easier to go with people I already knew.

I think when we were all meeting up it was a little awkward however while having brunch at Pancakes On The Rocks I feel like we all started warming up to each other! I had myself a big meaty steak with salad, both of which I absolutely fucking DEMOLISHED with BBQ sauce. It was all pretty cordial and we were talking about art, animation, Newgrounds, Bluey, blah blah blah.

(@Crashtroid asked me to shake Benny @Plufmot's hand on one of Luis’ Twitter spaces and I made sure I kept my word on that. Hopefully you don't mind the @ man!)

One of the coolest things I noticed was even though there was a sort of generational divide between current Newgrounders and people who went to the meet up a decade prior, everyone got along extremely well! It was intriguing watching Joey and Colin (@Chag) talk in-depth about dinosaurs in media and reviving extinct animals.

After that we moved to the Opera House where we took some photos and danced. Then we sat on some grass underneath a tree and chilled out for about an hour. I watched some people surround Colin as he shared his extensive knowledge on the animation industry in Australia. NG meets are very educational!

(Exposing our pure unfiltered Newgrounds aura to the Sydney public.)

When it hit around 5pm, we got up and walking to our next location. While walking, I was talking to Colin about Supernatural and Doctor Who (I've never watched either) but my train of thought was completely ran over by this roofless car with the tackiest bedazzlements I'd ever seen. In the front seat was a guy with a cowboy hat and in the tiny backseat was a tiny dog ALSO with a cowboy hat. I swear there were these hot pink accents all over the car but I can't remember all too good. I wish I had caught a photo or at least got a better look of the car. I freaked out and I couldn't even let poor Colin finish his sentence. I was genuinely entranced.

Anyways, we got to the docks by the Crown Hotel and while everyone was goofing about, I took this time to doodle a little.

When it was between 6pm and 7pm, we went to Strike Bowling which had Daniel (@D-SuN) art all over the place! It was so frickin' sweet. I watched Joey get his first drink which he described "like juice but worse". We bowled for a bit before hitting the town again.

(Not my photo, just grabbed this from the internet. I believe that being surrounded by his own drawings maxed out Daniel's bowling stats giving him the ability to absolutely slam all of us at bowling. He must of had some higher power that had his back cus Colin was the only one beating him and his lane got abruptly shut down.)

Next stop was this area in Sydney near Haymarket where they had a bunch of these eateries opened till late.

While walking there, this guy came up to us doing this thing called "freeline skating" where you got these mini skateboards for each foot and you skate around. We chatted to this guy for a sec before he gave his skates to Daniel who absolutely fucking shredded in the damn things (also got very close to hitting a tiny white dog). Turns out he's actually freeline skated before. That combined with the bowling experience made Joey and I flabbergasted by the existence of this guy.

Ok, so we get to the Haymarket area and we sit down cus some of the fellas want to get some alcohol from their hotels and Taco Bell. Benny said "we'll be 30 minutes, tops!" It took them 2 hours. It wasn't all bad though, we used most of the time to draw and talk but we kept going back to the phrase, "where ARE THEY?!"

They came back at around 11pm maybe. A few fellas had to go because they were busy or buses stopped running at a certain time. A little disappointed cus there was a plan to do karaoke but oh well!

Some rando asked us to sing Happy Birthday to his sister (or cousin, I can't remember actually) and of course we did. After that we split up into two groups. One group went to one of the bars around the area but I went with the group that went to the docks to smoke weed (I don't smoke weed, I just wanted Benny's soda goon drink). When we got back to the bar and it was around late 12am. I hung around till 1am before calling it a night.

It was honestly a little bittersweet, even though it was an awesome day with some of the coolest people I've ever easily clicked with, I was sorta sad cus I wouldn't see these guys till the next meet up which I hope will be next year. Still, a super cool day and I'm super glad I went!

Anyway, you can check my instagram highlight thingy on the whole day and the few days after when Benny, Alaric (@Orkork), Sean (@Tacopug) and I hit up Bondi Beach in the late late hours of the night.

(This is the only photo I have of Sean's horrid sandman creature he made while we were at Bondi. Benny might have some better images I don't know lolol)

That leads us to now! Damn, typing all that out made me realise a lot more happened this year than I thought did.

For the sake of random comparison, here’s two Tankmen drawings I did, one from the end of last year and the other I did a few days ago. I think it’s fun seeing how I’ve improved over the course of a year, and hopefully next year I'll be even better :o]

I got a few plans for next year. Other than the things going on in my personal life, I'm also planning on making a Nightmare Cops comic (some people were asking and I fold in half easy). I do have an idea of what to do but I honestly don't know how it's going to play out, might as well just wing it 🤷‍♂️

Also next year I'm studying animation! So maybe I'll finally upload more animation stuff, or not! We'll see...

Before I end this newspost, I want to thank everyone who’s had my back this year, friends, family, people who have been supporting my art and, of course, thank you to the Newgrounds Staff for taking care of the website and the community. I wish everyone a happy holiday and Happy New Year!

Finally, here’s one of them art summary thingies. I did it last year, might as well do it this year! Now, I'm gonna take a piss and watch Die Hard. Take care, everyone!

(I based the template off of the Street Fighter 6 character select screen. Excited for that game!!!)

LET'S GET IT!! Thank you for naming me User Of The Day, Newgrounds! I won't lie, I've been waiting pretty much ever since I joined this website haha it feels good!

Sorry I haven't uploaded anything properly in a bit by the way, I started working on an animation (it's got copyrighted music too, bleugh) and I've been really tired because I finally graduated! All I got are finals before I'm finally out for good. I am planning to study and hopefully pursue something related to art and animation, I have a loose-ish plan but I've always been the type of guy to just go with the flow.

In other completely unrelated news, I helped @BblackBiird out and made this Nightmaretober thing based off of Nightmare Cops! He and a bunch of people in the NC community came up with the prompts, I just wanted to make it look pretty.

(https://twitter.com/cchipollo/status/1576077655400939521)

Getting the logo down was a cunt and a half but it was also kind of fun. Also, I just realised I spelt "palette" wrong haha.

Also also Nightmare Cops is still not out, I feel like I need to say that for unaware people who stumble upon this post who don't know that I've been drawing fan art for this game for over a year.

Now if you excuse me I'm going to walk around my neighbourhood wearing a crown and banner that says "Newgrounds User Of The Day October 1st 2022". Have a good day, everyone!

hi! this is my first pico day! (yippee!) so far it's been fun seeing everyone's submissions! playing games and watching movies and looking at cool art. i get it now its a lotta fun.

i even participated in a collab hosted by the handsome @/RGPAnims. i did the character animation for the cutscenes, a microgame segment (if you know me, you can guess which one EASY) and had the honour of contacting a special guest for a cameo (watch until the very end!)

careful kids, it has a MATURE RATING. go watch the road to el dorado or something.

being apart of newgrounds has given me opportunities i only dreamed of. i'm grateful to be asked to be in fulpware, even if it means i have to catch up on a buttload of schoolwork. shit like this is really special and seeing this collab slowly come together was a treat. not only that but talking to people i had never spoken too and making new friends was good!! real good!!!

Hey! I hope the new year’s treating everyone well, if it isn’t, I hope everything gets better. It’s weird knowing I got 1k people here on NG keeping up with my shit. Nine months went by quick, it only feels like I joined yesterday!

Anyway, I just wanted to say I’m super grateful for everyone who’s following me, the people who fave my art, comment, or just rate whatever they rate. It really means a lot! I love reading through people's comments, even if they're really shit comments!! I appreciate you haha

I also want to thank all the friends I've made during these nine months. I'm a shut in who hates making new friends but certain motherfuckers came into my life and were cool so I guess I had to be friends with them lol. Seriously though, I reckon it's important to have friends from different places in the world with different beliefs and all that stuff. It's cool too! You all remind me that every time we talk on a call or on a twitter space.

My IRL friends also get their own thanks too since they've been by my side through everything, even the embarrassing shit. Even though they're not big into NG, they get how much it means to me and they'll listen to me ramble and send me NG related things. Love you guys.

And lastly I wanna give a huge thanks to the people who’ve let me work on their projects with big or small contributions. Without you guys I probably would’ve never been able to know what I wanted to do with my art in the future. Turns out doing art and animation for commission might be my thing :o]

Which reminds me, I have some shit to do and art for other people to make. Catch you guys later! Thank you all again!

I thought I'd make one last news post for 2021 to recap this year maybe, this has probably been the craziest in terms of productivity and attention. I don't expect this to get read much but I just thought it might be a nice thing :o]

I started this year as a minecraft youtuber fan and somehow ended it with my art on the site background! I'm incredibly grateful to be here on Newgrounds creating art to my heart's content (even if the art is questionable LOL).

What got me interested in Newgrounds was Tankmen. I remember the hype for Week 7 when Ugh was released, I was very adamant on Week 7 being Captain despite Ninjamuffin's tweet saying it was going to be Ritz but it was on the basis that I thought that's what he would sound like, I hadn't watched Tankmen so I really didn't know. I actually thought Tankmen was a game, I think I had somehow created this game in my head that was like Worms Armageddon but with the Tankmen?

Watching the Tankmen was really refreshing. After months and months of serious lore livestreams coming from some 20-something year old's Twitch channel, here was something that didn't take itself seriously. The dry humour and simplicity of it all really dragged me in. Also I was just really tired of Minecraft Youtubers and the community, that shit's exhausting I was willing to get out of that at any cost.

Next thing you know, I'm drawing Tankmen on a daily basis. Pulling out my phone and opening up sketchbook whenever I could, right when I woke up, during lunch at school, on the bus and train home, I kept putting out as much content as possible and people seemed to really like it! Someone dubbed a Tankmen comic I did, another guy did it in Spanish! Actually, someone else also did it in Spanish.

Eventually I joined Newgrounds despite being very scared of it. I remember it was the same day as my mum's birthday and one of the first Jeff twitter spaces. I'm not sure why but I remember that day very clearly.

@sukazumii was the person who sort of motivated me to join the website. He was probably the first friend I made in the community, he’s cool as hell.

The first thing I posted was this GROSS GIF (that I later revamped that was also kind of yucky).

I remember waking up the next morning to see Tom Fulp had followed me. I thought that was pretty cool!

I started posting art here, slowly but surely and eventually I was scouted by @/MrSignmeout! I've been too scared to scout anyone myself but that might change next year.

A few months later and I've become friends with some pretty cool guys! Notably @lanadoodles who's kindness and support continues to push me forward, @itsreddqueen who's take-no-shit attitude gives me confidence, @SlickRamen who's endless goofiness and light-heartedness allows me to chill out and relax every once and a while, @kastozx who makes so much good Nightmare Cops fan art and is really fun to talk to and @Luis, who I want to put on this list because while he's a hilarious little shit, he's also very honest and puts things in perspective for me (even if I act like a sook about it). SO THANK YOU.

Of course, there's also @plufmot who not only let me draw an ant for him but also let me onto his podcast to talk about potatoes!

Speaking of podcasts, The Newgrounds Podcast let me make a sticker for them! It's so cool to see something I've drawn digitally in the real world, stuck onto some people's stuff. I owe all my thanks and so much more to @Xinxinx because other than this, he's also made me more confident in my art and has given me really good advice regarding my art too. Talking to him has really opened up my eyes and even though words fail me sometimes, I'm very grateful to be working with him and the podcast.

Not only that but I somehow got second place in their Podchan Art Contest and I also animated them.

Now I guess I should move to what the bulk of this year has been about for me, Nightmare Cops.

I don't know what about this game has got me wrapped around its finger but at this point I don't even know if I can stop drawing them. THE GAME ISN'T EVEN FINISHED and I've dug myself ditch so deep, I don't think I can get out.

My first drawing of the Nightmare Cops compared to my last I think shows how comfortable I've gotten with drawing these dumb little guys.

Okay but genuinely I think I gotta calm down on the Nightmare Cops art. They're so fun to draw and I love em to death but I feel so guilty drawing them before the game's even set to release.

I will say this though: a lot of my Nightmare Cops drawings taught me new things or pushed me out of my comfort zone. I even animated them once, it's short but still!

I didn't expect this year to be anything other than entering a new stage in my life but what I got was so much more than that.

I joined an active community of artists, made new friends, talked to people I looked up too, DRASTICALLY improved my art and used that art for other people's projects and ideas. It's all a bit scary I'll admit. I'm still a stupid kid, I feel under qualified for all of these things and I'll say these things a lot but I don't want to give the impression that I'm not happy for all of these things. I'm overjoyed :o] So thank you.

Here's to a good 2022! People might say that's too optimistic but I didn't really hate this year so hopefully I won't hate next year!

that first one was from february this year, holy cow!! i still kinda like how stylistic and angular the first one is though.

that's all.

I animated a thing from a Jeff tweet using the old Tankmen assets. Hope you all like my weekend's work lol.

Uhhh.. I don't know. Listen to Silk Sonic and have a good time. Bye!

Hello!! Happy October and all that stuff, I come back with another update!

I guess I should start with an update on the trailer I was talking about last post. Obviously, it ended up unfinished for a couple of reasons.

One of the reasons is more of an excuse, motivation for a big project is really hard to keep up, especially if thats all you ever work on day in day out. It didn't help that I was the only animator and to be honest I'm kind of inexperienced, this is the first big project I've ever tried working on.

The other reason is that I was asked to join the Toy Story 2: Redialed collaboration! I couldn't pass up the opportunity so I joined in, whipped up something in about two weeks or a little more and sent it over. I won't upload my part until the actual collaboration comes out because the only audio I have for the scene is the copyrighted audio from the original movie. In the mean time here's a sneak peek of my part.

The last reason is that I have a life and school lol.

By the way, all of this isn't to say the trailer's never coming out, I plan on working on it a little bit at a time but it'll be more of a side project.

Second thing I wanted to say is thanks for all the support on my art! I am extremely grateful to be on Newgrounds, I've met so many wonderful people and joined some awesome projects (see above).

Few months back, I remember being really hesitant to go onto NG and I was pretty adamant on not joining. Nowadays, I'm constantly sending NG links to my friends and making them watch movies and play games with me. Some of them have joined NG but haven't posted anything lol.

Speaking of friends, you should follow some of them! @redtailfins and @hugcrabs are good artists and you should follow them, por favor, por favor.

Okay, that's all! :o] Have a good halloween!

Sup! I'll try making this post shorter than the last one because I honestly don't know if I have much motivation to write (I just need a break from animating).

A few things have happened or are happening! Most of which are pretty good news I think?

First of all, I have Clip Studio Paint now, which is awesome because I definitely prefer the brushes on CSP to Medibang. Still sort of hard to transition though because CSP's layout is weeeeiirdddd. I'll get used to it.

Second thing, I got a new tablet! I got it as a birthday present and it arrived yesterday but I've still yet to use it. I don't remember the exact model name but I know it's a XP-Pen tablet with a screen which is super dope.

Third big thing, I decided to work on an entry for Round 5 of the Newgrounds Summer Jam! I've been talking about it and showing some WIPs on Twitter (I've been trying to keep off of Twitter, mainly using it to update this project.)

"What are you making a trailer about?" I decided to make it based off of that fighting game thing with my friends I talked about last update post. I thought it would be fun and it could force me to come up with designs for everyone lol

Those are from the storyboards I knocked out in over the course of two days, immediately after I worked on putting them together in a sort of lazy animatic and banged that out in a few hours.

I will admit though, 4 days into the project I am starting to get exhausted already. I keep thinking about everything I have to animate and it just makes me feel tired. I might ask some friends to help out with the load, I have asked some friends for help regarding other aspects of the project but not necessarily the animation. I'll just have to build up the courage I guess.

Because I'm spending all my time on this project (and learning an entirely new art program), there won't be as much art being uploaded. Sorry :o[

Maybe this project was a mistake but I'm still determined to try finishing it up. :'oD I did get music permission and a voice actor for this so I might as well keep going.

I think that's all. I wrote this at 4pm but I'll probably upload this at around 9 or 10pm around where I live. Hope you all have a good day or whatever, I'm gonna over eat lol