….and so I’ve graduated college. Whoopee! Academics, Professors, The Noisemaker Parties [The Great Din], The Social Cemetery, The Endless Study are over! This News post will be short, but I’d like to get out of the way quickly: that I’m on Artfight this month to celebrate. If you want to catch me there go for it, it's unlikely for me to go again anytime soon due to business. 

Painting is a crime. I took a painting class near the end [an incredibly stressful semester otherwise], and I was terrible at it. Color had never agreed with me, so curmudgeon’d my way to the canvas area; I got past a few until I noticed something mysterious had happened. There was a color on the painting I didn’t make, what had happened was the colors mixed together on the canvas- that is, reacted to one another! THIS was what I was missing from color, the chaotic expression; I made more and more messes and now I wanted to find a way to get them into my artwork universal. This would take time, but it was for a love of a new idea. I went on a hiatus to meet painters, and funnily enough the Strike Man Drawing did preview a bit of this thought.

In fact, I did a lot of study on a variety of topics. You would uncover me on the multitude of floors, the library world day in-and-out, I really enjoyed that pleasant solitude! Composition, Paint, Avant-garde, Art Movements, Fantasy, well-balanced-diet. In studies I have met amazing animator friends, met some industry folk, & entered some studio spaces. I found a new way to express my messy experiments, and hopefully make them into a repeatable method/process to give as much as I can! Theres an original piece series coming later tomorrow on Ants, - I think it shows this perspective well, I hope you’ll like it! I’m still learning! Much more to come!

100 DRAWINGS!

I’m glad to have fans of my work. I really am, this is one of the best platforms I’ve ever been on. Everyone here has been insane, fun, or both. I can dig that. I’m a very independent person, and recently I’ve been studying like hell on art and other artists. But as I reach 100 drawings [which is really something like 400, almost all my art is in multiples of 3 or 4!], there have been some developments that I want to share. 

First, I’m graduating Doodle Dump. It’s a series I’ve always wanted to tweak- so the series has been completely updated with the new gallery function of NG. Luckily, I actually found all the original photos to use, so they are all at a higher quality now! You can find them all on a new dedicated playlist. Going forward though, it will be under a new name- because I have been experimenting with ink. I believe the added difficulty will help me grow as an artist, and I love dipping and feeling the pen pressure in my own hands.

Second, I have a Tumblr now. Some of you observational folk HAVE noticed, and it has been pretty fun to run with my NG parallel. Seeing as the audience there is mostly media based, I might lean towards fanart while in that platform, as opposed to NG- my main place, which has everything.

Third, I’m honored to befriend people who have a strong drive like I do and will gladly support them in any way I can, but to keep it recent: a friend of mine has created a video game that will have a 3-level demo on September 19 as part of SAGE 2025: “Kira-Kira Catgirl Rampage” It’s a difficult exploration-based beat-'em-up Wario-like featuring a comically and parodically exaggerated catperson by the name of Taiki. Make sure to keep that date, if only to look at that charming art. If you prefer animation, you should catch up on JR Rack as they have just begun releasing a fluidly animated short series featuring a dragon of questionable advice. They also are a comic creator working on the sleazy conmen duo story/antics of “Misconduct”, I’ve actually helped design some of the assets and characters and have good reason to continue doing so with the artistic ideas they bring to the table. I myself also enjoyed quite a lot of successes, like having some of my work featured in a local festival, and I look forward to finishing these two 13+ image art projects but..... maybe I spoke too much? I’ll keep the surprises for myself for now.

-oh, and I’m still animating. Don’t worry about that. It’s actually taking up most of my time.

HELLO AGAIN!

Fortunately for all you fine folk and unfortunately for those grave-diggers seeking to take my plastic canister of M&M's that also function as a compatible fan, I have been working HARD! Where do we begin?

First, folk have talked to me in private about commissions. Although I'm not hosting public commissions, I accepted their art requests and have drawn a few commission pieces... leaving them and I very happy. The next news post is highly likely to be a commission form for those who'd like me to draw anything. I'd be happy to draw your characters in my artstyle!

Second, I appeared on a twitch stream, well........sort of. A very clever & cordial Twitch streamer by the name of LCOLONQ made my UnNethack Tileset the focus of one of their many coding streams. With explicit permission, of course. I thoroughly enjoyed watching them code my tiles into a separate visual module for the game, which is something I can't imagine doing in front of an audience of hundreds! Undertakings like this is usual for their channel, so if that type of content pleases you, here is their Twitch again. Here is the exact video my art is shown in, too.

Look, there I am!

Third, I'm working on projects. One is a video game.. and the other is something horrifying [probably.] The main reason I haven't been making doodle-posts quite as much is because that energy is allocated to concept art! Some of my best ideas are being used and I can't wait to tell you more about it. Release dates are uncertain as they are in early developments, but the progress has been promising. Aside from that, I have 2 art series ideas I'd like to tackle personally.

Fourth, I'm heading back to school very soon. This means more animation, but less time to mess around. My new plan is to bother every student artist near me indefinitely. I'll tell you any funny social stories if you want. Thanks for reading and feel free to message me anytime!

Academic break- The Summer is fun to all but me! I have a lot I want to do. But as you can see with the Megaman Collab post-- I'm completing some old stuff. I also figured out that The Doors' music is really good for studying.

Among these postings is an old comic called "Ear Ocean". It's redrawn recently. It was basically a doodle log for my dreams, while replacing real life faces and me with "characters" that would be consistent throughout the comics. You should know that I have had a vivid dream every day since 2020, no nightmares because thank god my brain can't take that too seriously!

Anyway, it only had one "Seasoning" of 5 episodes, which was years ago. My dreams have become much odder than the ones in those comics, so I might make more Seasonings. Time will tell, it's not on my priority. But I will be posting these episodes one day at a time in an orderly manner.

This Academic semester has been wringing me like a towel. But we're almost there... just over the hill!

Collab/Solo projects have gotten steam [some dating years ago], and unfortunately for logic I've come up with a daft idea for my Tileset's "Two-Handed Sword".

See you after the classwork settles.

It's on streaming services now!

Soundcloud

Spotify

Youtube

and always on Bandcamp

NOTE: Only Bandcamp and Soundcloud provide the individual track art.

For those who haven't heard: This is a 51 track chiptune album of @Nanogram's oldest tracks. Their works were mainly centered around the online game diep.io. The characters that were created through this fanon journey have all been given lovely proper character designs by the fantastic @FristoOregano with some help from Yours truly.

P.S. Do NOT listen to Track 42: Wobblon Formula. It's horrible and It only appeared once me and @Nanogram were throwing darts across the room until it led to incident involving a coffee, a tarantula, and a very mad bull. No matter what we try, spraying it with acid doesn't take it off the tracklisting, I'm sorry.

Happy to say that this is still an "oldies" collection, and to prepare of what's to come!

Hello again!

Merry cradle and another few years! I've got some new fans and I'd just re-iterate that this is THE main art dump, I'm not a huge creator to just spur out work unless a creative idea is backing it.

That being said I haven't been doing too much fun-drawings. Why? Am I hating Art? Did I drop it all in the river? Did my hands fall off? Did I go crazy, eat my own tail, hate art, fall into the river with only my hands being the victim of a mad sea-monkey? No, thankfully. I was just enjoying my break in the trappings of the common man: Video Games. I've mostly been scarce on what games I play, If any. Two games recently have just been too much fun: Rain World and Lethal Company. Brilliant games both of them.

I go to college later this month. I might draw some more during. I've wondered this month: Should I keep my drawings creativeness-propelled, or just go out and draw as much as I can? It's been at me. Other than that I still have progressing series like the Nethack Tileset, Projects behind the scenes, and even small PR update (which I'll issue seperate from this newspost).

Thanks for reading! To a Happy 2024!

Just thought you should know (drools unblinkingly). My BIRTHDAY happened today! (No cute illustration right now, I was busy and ended up just re-watching Team Fabulous 2. So I just ended up using that. Love you, Kitty.)

EDIT: Newgrounds has a new multi-image feature. It's going to make some things look cleaner. Already edited the UCN image and you can finally zoom in for a high quality peek on the last few peeps!

Back to drawing! And to college too- I hope to finish to a pretty well and big art piece a week or so from now. Maybe some supplementary drawings between? We'll see, I was beginning to like the free time, so just pretend I got hit with a plank or something. Ooooh, ow, how can I go back to class now?

It's a time for firsts and the incredibly rare hurricane is not something i expected! But it's not as bad as it looks. It's going to die down immensely to a tropical storm of some kind. I'll be alright. I'm also starting college, so what a weekend this will be! I'll put another post on Monday (When Poseidon has gotten his fill of bothering tiny creatures such as I) to show that I kept the hair on my head. My personal hurricane, however, will be full of dangerous amounts of ART AND LOVE I have been acting over the weeks.