HELLO LOVELY PEOPLE OF NEWGROUNDS I BRING YOU ANOTHER UPDATE OF WHAT SILLY THINGS I AM UP TO ON HERE!!!
In any case some say that when life gives you lemons, that you need to make lemonade. I don't think there is ever a more true sentiment to certain situations you come across in life. Of course, creativity is often a good outlet for the everyday mundane absurdity we happen to call that.
THAT ASIDE ITS TIME TO PROVIDE SOME UPDATES ON WHAT I HAVE BEEN UP TO THESE PAST TWO WEEKS SINCE MY LAST UPDATE SO HERE WE GO!
SUBMISSION UPDATES:
In coordination with the ongoing effort to update several submissions to include content that is related to their initial pieces, the following posts have been given some new content related to them.
Granted, most of these are really just updates to include the native sizes of the original pixel art. HOWEVER, there has been some other things I provided in the Seductive Abyss and Takamaru pieces to include some experiments with CRT style filters.
EVENTUALLY what I'd like to do for some of my digital art pieces I may revise them to include some sketches that are relevant and re-organize a few pieces into one submission, primarily because it's a wee bit jarring to have things all over the place and not keep anything remotely tidy in spite of all the things that have been going on.
COLLABORATIONS:
In some of my recent activity on the BBS you'll notice that I have been taking part in a few collabs as of late. Mainly because I've been feeling the need to take on a few new challenges on my part. The snowman collab hosted by @fe3l1ngsk1lledd is one such project that helped get me thinking somewhat outside of the box. That was a bit of a quickie. However since I feel like it'd be more appropriate to wait until all the submissions are done and he's uploaded all the pieces for every user, you'll have to wait before you see the piece formally in the gallery.
Additionally, I am also now taking part in The Transformers Collab hosted by @CrockettDK on the grounds that I happen to dig giant robots. This is actually going to be something that will put me out of my comfort zone and, I'll be making some artwork for that collab. Maybe even a quick animation once I'm able to get the appropriate software to pull it off. That being state, that is going to be a project alongside Newgrounds Zero Hour to take some priority on my end.
BUT WAIT A SECOND!
There is in fact one other priority that, while not a massive one for me personally actually leads into a slight announcement for a Collab that is simple enough to not create a massive effort on my end since it's intended to be a group effort to create the best shit post possible.
THAT'S RIGHT I'M HOSTING A HAPPY LITTLE COLLAB
It's not intended to be anything massive or labor intensive on my end. I was initially planning to do another request-a-palooza on my end but with the amount of projects I'm taking on and the major life changes I'm currently going through on my end I realized that I'm not going to have as much time to take on a ton of people asking me to create free art. But then I realized something and asked my self "Why should I have all the fun in the joys of drawing?"
So I figured that I would allow for several artists to make and submit some of their own artwork and make it into one masterpiece in it's own right that can be a group effort by the masses of Newgrounders and the rest of all online denizens to enjoy. So here's the drill:
If you partake in the collab you are more than welcome to create up to FIVE drawings!
You read that right! Not a maximum of four, or six, or seven! FIVE is the magic number!
Just be sure to read all the rules in the collab and make sure it doesn't land an A rating. As much as I know some of us want that hot Wailord on Skitty action in an explicit manner, it'd be more of a challenge to make it Funny, Sexy, and Outrageous without making it explicit porn. Think of it like a bachelor show or some Japanese anime dating sim but with a flair of rampant cartoony hilarity and chaos that brings the magic out in all the surfers and memers in us! All of us under the spell of the internet!
SOME FINAL NOTES!
Obviously, it seems like a lot is going on for me personally. Yet life seems to be changing for the better, and soon I'll be on a payroll again and investing my time to help support my creative endeavors. I'm in a better state of mind where I'm more tanned and rested than I have been over the last year where I was pushing myself to insanity doing a 10 hour job four days a week on night shift. Which was insanely stressful on my end and it left me being into more of a salty asshole than usual since I wasn't able to focus on my well being in addition to work and my time to focus on making artwork and getting back into the rhythm of animating.
The biggest challenge in the coming years is handling all of this in my 30's, and it's creeping up on me sooner than I'd like to admit and yet... I have to be real I'm actually looking forward to it compared to my experiences in college and art school having learned my own strengths and weaknesses and getting to know myself better.
So who knows what life will bring me personally through 2024 all the way into 2034? Assuming that World War 3 doesn't wipe out humanity to the point where the majority of us are dead by nuclear and cyber warfare I might be able to save up enough money to attend more Comic-Cons, Pride Events, and Newgrounds Gatherings.
Until then, go fourth, do good for the world, and break out your creative mind and make the world a more colorful place!