Student loans are kicking my ass, so you know what that means...

Commissions are NOW OPEN!!!

That's right! Now you can make me draw whatever the hell you want! (Within reason [see above sheet]) I've been wanting to start doing commissions for a while now, so here it is!

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Pricing (Incase you missed the attachment above, or just can't read my handwriting lmao. All in USD):

Icon/Headshot: 7$

Half-body: 11$

Full-body: 15$

By default it'll come with a single color background, but you can add a more detailed background for just 5$ (I am admittedly not the best at backgrounds yet, generally speaking, so survey my work to see if it's worth it or not lol)

Additional characters are +90% of original cost, before backgrounds, so a two character full body piece with a background will be 33.50$ (15$ OG + 13.5$ Additional Char + 5$ BG). You can currently add up to 3 additional characters.

Pricing is as presented for now, but depending on how this first run goes, I might adjust a few things here and there. This will only affect future purchases, however; anything bought now will be priced as is.

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Rules:

When it comes to do's and don'ts, I have a few things that I'm not completely closed off to, along with a few things that I will most certainly not do. I figured I'd list these out to try and clarify intentions

Will draw:

• Your OCs, or the OCs of your friends (with their permission!!)
• Your favorite character from a movie, game etc.
• Your pets as animal crossing characters
• Other family friendly stuff along these lines.

Might draw (Ask beforehand)

• Furry / anthro characters (I don't have much experience but I'm willing to try!)
• Light / tasteful romance stuff (Leaning against eachother, some smoochin maybe, but nothing more than that)
• Anything involving my OCs (Heavy maybe. I'll only do these if someone has a funny idea that I like)

Will NOT draw:

• NSFW
• Gore/violence
• Politics/hate art
• Complex mechanical designs
• Anything that doesn't sit right with me for any reason

I reserve the right to turn down any request that I'm not comfortable drawing, even if not explicitly listed here. No means no.

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Payment:

For now, payment will be thru Ko-Fi, though I might change this later depending on how well it all works out. Payment will be up front, and with no refunds, so be sure you'd like to purchase my services before requesting. No takesies backsies!

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Final product:

Commissions should be completed and sent ~2-4 days after request, depending on complexity/traffic/personal life. I believe that Ko-Fi has a way to directly send the final art to the client, but I'm not positive on the details. You may request I send it thru email or Newgrounds file dump link if you'd prefer. I will most likely post my finished commissions here as well, but I won't post if directly asked not to. I can also keep the commissioner anonymous should they wish to be.

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And that's about it! It took me a while to decide if and how I'd do my first run of commissions, and there are a lot of moving parts to all of this that I'm still figuring out. If you have any questions or concerns, feel free to DM me, and I'll do my best to be transparent about the whole process, along with any issues that may (but hopefully won't) occur.

Happy New Years, Ladies, Lads and Nonbinary Chads!

2024's coming to an end and I get to make my first year-end summary post on Newgrounds! Wow!

It's been a wild year from start to finish, and a lot has changed in my life, with one of the best being that I finally joined Newgrounds! (Ok, technically I've had this account since 2021, but I was just kind of a lurker who never really posted stuff) It all started when I wanted to learn digital art in order to make Visual Novel sprites, and I remembered I had an old drawing tablet that I hadn't touched since high school. After messing around with it for a bit, I wanted to find a place to post my art progress and sure enough I landed on NG! My first posts were a few rough doodles of Animal Crossing characters I did while learning how to use Clip Studio Paint.

I timed my arrival here exquisitely as @Oddlem 's OCtober started around then, so I went ahead and drew the first drawing of my main OC Nat for day 1:

Isn't she gorgeous??? Okay but fr, this was rough. I knew practically nothing about the different pens you could use and pretty much just used the pencil tool for everything, including the coloring lmao. It took me a few days to get a handle on the software, and the quality fluctuated greatly between each post. I made a series of review blogs going over all of my days if you'd like to see just how much I improved and learned during this time. Improvement wasn't the only thing I gained thru OCtober, however, as I also met a lot of really cool people through it!

To shout out a few peeps (in no particular order), I met @ChazDude , @SomeDoodles , @ZenonRetna , @GoldShinx , @CappyCatII , @Gribbus07 , @TheJamarillo, @rekt-haus , @DosieDonut , @Coolusername225 , @BallsyMerc and @BargonSpaceman , to name a few, but there were a lot of cool folks involved in OCtober. (If I forgot anyone who sees this, plz lemme know, I'm tired and don't trust myself to have everyone listed lol)

Getting to see everyone's work and interact along the way was awesome, and the event really made me feel welcomed and involved in a way that few things have before. After this point, I'd pretty much fallen in love with Newgrounds, and made it a point to get involved with as much Newgrounds shiz as I could. I went on to sign up for numerous collabs, and got busy doodling my entries for them:

Alien Collab:

Smash Bros Collab (Not Out Yet):

Astro Bot Collab (Not Out Yet):

Among others that I don't have designated posts for.

Another stand out was that I took part in my first couple Art Trades! I put out a post on my Bluesky asking if anyone was interested and I ended up doing trades with fellow OCtober enjoyers ChazDude and Rekt-haus!

ChazDude:

Rekt-haus:

This was a lot of fun and I'd love to do more of these in the future!

Shortly after the art trades, I got to take part in my first ever NG Secret Santa!! I got @omakkekii, who had a really cool character design that was a ton of fun to draw!

I also received my secret santa from the awesome @CrayonJackie :

It turned out really cool, so thanks a ton for giving me my first ever Tankmas gift! :D

The final big development was that I was picked for one of the NG drawing tablet giveaways! This was a huge win as my old tablet was really small and super old. Sometimes it just straight up wouldn't work lol. I've used the new one for my last several projects and I'm loving it so far; it's so smooth and its wider workspace lets me properly use my shoulder for longer and smoother lineart. I wanna offer a massive thank you to @TomFulp , along with everyone who donated to make those giveaways a possibility. You all have shown me just how welcoming Newgrounds is to newer artists, and I look forward to improving and growing alongside all of you! I won't letcha down!

And that's pretty much everything! I've only been here for a few months so my end of year summary isn't as long as some people's but it's certainly not lacking in weight! So much has happened in such a short time and I am absolutely stoked to see what happens in 2025!

Here are a few final shoutouts to finish things off:

@Lizmas for drawing Nat as Spamton:

@Finasty , @2121Fancy07 , @Zakeblue1 , and @Evanora for bein cool dudes

(Again, if I forgot anyone, plz lemme know. I promise it isn't personal, I'm just bad at keeping track of a large list of names lmao)

Thanks a million to everyone who read this, and moreover to those who've followed me on my silly little doodle journey here on NG! Hope you all had a great holiday season, and I wish you all the best in 2025!!!

Money's been getting real tight lately, so you know what that means: time to ask strangers on the internet for money! :DDD Ok but all jokes aside, I've been thinking of ways I can monetize my art somehow and I'm thinking I might give commissions a try. I'm not opening them right this minute as I'm not confident enough in my abilities or art-style, but I have gone ahead and made a Ko-Fi account to get a head start. If you've got a few extra dollars burning a hole in your pocket then don't be afraid to send them my way! But, if money's an issue for you as well, save it and put it towards something that will directly benefit you. (like a bag of pretzel M&M's perhaps heheheh) That, or save it for when I do open commissions, then I can doodle one of your characters for a couple bucks or something.

Also, just to set expectations, I will not be doing anything that would be labeled as adult on newgrounds, so no NSFW, no gore, and no odd fetishy stuff. I also probably won't accept furry commissions right away as that's a whole other ball park I'm not quite ready for, but I'd be open to learn if you reaaaallly want me to draw ur fluffy lil characters (as long as they are family friendly lmao)

That's about all for now, but I'll post another update when I'm ready to do commissions for real! Feel free to leave a comment if you might be interested in a commission in the future, and thanks for listening to my yapping. (or reading ig, this is the internet (unless you have one of them fancy-ass text to speech reader plugin thingamajigs in which case thanks for listening (these are far too many parentheses)))

I've met a lot of cool ppl thru newgrounds in the few months of actively participating and someone said networking is good, so I made a BlueSky account! I understand this is what all the cool kids are using since Twitter shat itself. I've never been a huge social media fan, but thought this could be a fun way to reach out a bit more, so yee

Previous part (11-20): https://electronat.newgrounds.com/news/post/1485180

Day 21: Best Dessert

This one was another case of me unable to think of a way to make something interesting using the prompt as it was provided, so I decided to instead make a dumb spelling joke. I really like the background on this one, of course based off of desert levels from the Mario Bros series. I love how the sun turned out, as I feel I did a pretty good job of encapsulating that overly hateful look he has lmao. That said, the foreground and subjects could use a bit of work. The lighting looks a little strange on my character, and don't even get me started on her face. I somehow managed to give her a super wide, melted looking chin. Idk what happened with that. As these next few go on, you can see me start getting frustrated with the design of the character, unsure of how to balance realstic proportions with a stylized character, all while trying to make it visually appealing.

Day 22: Crossover

This one was fun. At first I had no idea what to do for this prompt, but then I noticed that Coolusername225 had drawn my character, so naturally I had to return the favor. I'm pretty happy with how their character turned out, especially the face screen, but I LOATHE how I drew Nat in this one haha. I don't know what it is but I really goofed up the proportions and look here, and it was this exact moment that I noticed that the nose-less look really didn't fit the more realistic proportions I was starting to use. It looked fine in the earlier ones where she was a lot more chibi looking, but the more I stretched out the character, the weirder she looked without a nose.

Day 23: Given 1,000,000$

I had to have her Scrooge McDuck dive for this one. (Even if piles of gold are likely worth much more than 1 mil lol). I think I did okay here. The pose is decent, though the legs got a little funky, and it's the first time she got a nose! I'm also just now realizing that I forgot to draw the balcony and ladder that Scrooge had in the entrance of his money vault, so ig she's trapped in there forever now. That's canon. Oops.

Day 24: Their Enemy

This one I have a love-hate relationship with. I really liked designing and drawing the Taxman, and the posing and effects turned out fine, but something about Nat just seems... off. It might be the dynamic pose, mixed with slightly off proportions and flat lighting, but I'm not 100% sure how to fix it. I think this was a case of me attempting to make her look too realistic while not understanding how to draw realistic humans :/ Something to consider for the future, I suppose

Day 25: Going to Space

I really like how this one turned out. I honestly think I did a decent job of replicating the style of the Mario Galaxy story books, while adding my own little twist to it. Definitely one of my favorites, though not without its issues. The main thing I dislike about this one has to be how much Nat stands out compared to the rest of the piece. I think it might be because I was using a much smaller brush, which led to her being a bit more intricately detailed than the rest of the image, but I'm not entirely sure how to fix that while still getting the figure across. I think I'd like to revisit this one in the future.

Day 26: Exercising

This one was an interesting change of pace and style. I wanted to try an action pose again, like with the table tennis one, but also wanted to have more realistic proportions. I ended up using a picture of myself as a reference, which I think helped a bit, though I might've made the body a bit too realistic while keeping the head very stylized. I also messed up the twist in the body a bit, which I think might make it a bit confusing perspective-wise. In the color department I tried an entirely different style of coloring and shading, this time dividing every color into its own layer and using that to better shade specific parts with colors that matched that object. That part turned out fine I think, though still not perfect.

Day 27: Vacation

I really like this one; it might honestly be one of my favorites. I adore the wii, moreover any games that involve the Miis, so to be able to draw one of the best locations from those games while putting my littler character in there, I had a ton of fun with this. It's by far the most complicated and indepth backgrounds I've done to date, and I think it turned out pretty solid for what it is. There are minor details I wish I would've spent more time on, like the janky-ass wires on the bridge, but it turned out fine enough I'd say.

Day 28: Getting an Award

I think this one might have be my favorite instance of Nat's design so far. I feel like I did a much better job of blending more 'realistic' proportions while keeping a stylized face and body that are actually pleasant to look at. I also love how the posing and expression turned out, definetly the new standard for this character's design. That said, the lighting is a bit funky, and a bit flat in places like her chest and arms, but it's an improvement.

Day 29: Party!!!

This one was fun. It'd been a while since I drew Celene, and it's also the first time she's gotten a nose too! Woah! The posing was fun too; recreating the iconic family guy death pose, along with Celene's overjoyed expression over robbing Nat of her most prized possession. (I bet mario party has genuinely soured relationships between already strained loved-ones out there). I think I did a good job with the lighting when it comes to the star and it's yellowish glow, but the overall lighting is a bit off in places; especially near Celene's legs. It makes her look a bit detached from the background, which is a problem I am still learning how to fix. Overall a decent second to last piece though, all things considered.

And last but not least, Day 30: Halloween

This was probably one of the most ambitions projects I've done so far, and intentionally so. I knew I had to use everything I'd learned so far to make the best culmination of my learned skills throughout the month that I could, and I believe I delivered. The character sketches alone took several hours to get right, not to mention the line art, coloring, shading etc. I probably spent about 6-7 hours on this one (occasional short breaks included). It was a grind, but I am incredibly proud of how this turned out, doubly so when I look back at everything I'd made up until this point! I do still notice the little mistakes here and there, and I know I have a long way to go, but I am very much impressed by my improvement over this time.

And that's everything! I've said it before and I'll say it again: this was a ton of fun. I've never hit art this hard before, much less digital, so it was nice having an excuse to do so. Tons of thanks to Oddlem for hosting this, as well as to everyone who took part! I've loved seeing what everyone else was making, along with sharing my own work and getting feedback and support. This has been a great introduction to newgrounds for me, and I look forward to taking part in more events in the future! Thanks if you read this far :)

Okay, that's all the time I've got. I've gotta get back to playing Animal Crossing New Leaf on my Nintendo 3DS

Full thread for those interested:

https://www.newgrounds.com/bbs/topic/1538618

Previous part (1-10): https://electronat.newgrounds.com/news/post/1485168

Day 11: Hobbies

I had a lot of fun with this one. I wanted to try out an action pose and accentuate it with some motion effects and the like. I think I did a pretty solid job of conveying what I'm going for here, and I enjoyed making it as overly aggressive as possible. Definite improvements over previous entries in my opinion

Day 12: Romance? Or not!

Sis gets no bitches lmaooooo. If I have to be single, so does my avatar. Nah but this one was fun. I had just recently finished playing through the visual novel Our Life: Beginnings and Always and it was excellent; I had to reference it here. The lighting was also neat to play with. It isn't perfect but I think I did an alright job of conveying the 'alone in a dark room with the only light being your laptop' vibe. This was not an uncommon scene in my college dorm rooms back in the day hahaha.

Day 13: With Friends

The first appearance of Celene! It was fun designing a friend character for my little OC. Unlike mine, she isn't based off of anyone I know in particular, just a culmination of friends I have or had in the past. Also the going on walks thing, that's a common theme with me and my friends. This one was neat since I had just discovered the fancy background brushes in Clip Studio and had an excuse to use them. It feels a little cheaty since it adds so much detail so easily, so I might not use them as much in the future, but for it worked for what I was going for.

Day 14: Sick Day

I had already used my idea for a down-in-the-dumps type beat in my day 6 post, so I wanted to do something different. I thought, if not sick, how about sick as hell? B) This one was dumb lol, but I like it. Trying to break her arms and legs to look like that iconic sonic pose was an interesting trial, and it makes her look a bit odd. That, compared with her lifeless expression kinda makes her look taxidermized hahahaha

Day 15: Celebration!

This one came easily to me. I'm a big Terraria fan and the celebration MkII is such a fun item when paired with the missiles that destroy tiles. You can just remove your entire world with a giant rocket launcher, it's great.

Day 16: Something They Love

Another prompt that came easy to me. I ADORE ducks. There was a creek not far from my college I'd walk to to watch the ducks go by. In the good times, and in the bad, it was one constant I could return to no matter what, and I'll never forget that. As for the art itself, I like the background. I still used the cheaty pens for the plants and such, but I filled in details like lighting or the cat-tails and I think it turned out nicely.

Day 17: Give them a pet.

I've always kind of wanted a pet tarantula. Back when I lived with my parents, I obviously wasn't allowed, as my mom was understandably horrified of them, but even now I'm refraining so as to not dissuade them from visiting. The lines on this one are still pretty darn thicc, and I'd probably clean up the shading/ color a bit, but I like the expressions and poses.

Day 18: Vehicle of Choice

In all honesty, I think motorcycles are sick as hell, but I'm also too much of a coward to own one irl. That said, drawings are invicible, so I can have one in the digital world lmao. I had some fun messing with motion blur on this one, even going so far as to vary how blurred background elements are based on how far away they are. The effect turned out alright, but the art itself looks a bit flat, with the main subject being superimposed over it. I probably could have done a better job of making the motorcycle look like it's actually in the scene with better lighting and a bit of blur on the tires perhaps.

Day 19: Beach Day!

I really like this one. Probably one of my favorites of pre-nose Nat lol. It is very much based of of real occurrences as I almost always bring my shovel with me when I go to the beach. My friends sometimes join in too, but I more than often end up flinging sand their way not unlike the picture. I could have probably improved readability with the background a bit, especially with the piles of sand around the hole, as it's hard to tell if they're meant to go up or down. The lighting is also a bit funky in places, but overall I'm still pretty happy with this one.

Day 20: That's GROSS!!!

I really liked doing this one. Recreating Kaiba's iconic pose was a blast, and making the lighting and blur as aggressive as possible was a ton of fun. I also finally started using slightly thinner lines, though not as thin as I would later.

Next part: https://electronat.newgrounds.com/news/post/1485259

Hello! This is my first news post so hopefully I'm using this right lol

At last, we've reached the end of OCtober, and I'm happy to say that I successfully completed the challenge without missing a day! This was the first Newgrounds event I've ever taken part in and I must say, it was a ton of fun! I had just heard about it on the first day of October, not long after I had remembered I owned a drawing tablet and decided to get into digital art for the first time. The challenge has been a nice excuse for me to draw and learn, and looking back it makes for a nice timeline of my progress. Having completed all 30 prompts, I thought it might be fun to look back at my art in this post. Maybe compare and critique my own work, as it were. So then, let's take a look!

Day 1: Draw an OC

The first drawing of my OC! This was one of the first finished pieces I made, and it looks like dookie lmao. As I was just learning the basics, I hadn't yet experimented with different brushes or layers, so the whole thing is essentially a one-layer sketch with color added and a crappy background. That said, it set the design for my goofy little selfsona, so it isn't without merit I suppose. Things get much better later on, I promise.

Day 2: Hyped

This one is more or less the same deal as the first one, although I added the semblance of a background, as well as a second object in frame. I like the idea of this one, but again, the execution leaves much to be desired. I might come back later and redo these earlier ones with the skills I've learned, but we'll see how I feel later.

Day 3: Alternate Universe

While still pretty crude, this one is a comparable step up, with an actual background and an early attempt at shading. I also finally started using layers, which helped a bit keeping the objects separated and colored, but the way in which I did it still overcomplicated the coloring process.

Day 4: Different Outfit

I think this might be my favorite from my hasn't-learned-G-pen-yet era. Designing and drawing the outfit was pretty fun, and I enjoyed making the little background details. Still undercooked, but fun to do nonetheless.

Day 5: At Work

I like the energy of this one, but the execution is just kinda gross to me. Like, I'm not the best at proportions or style now, but this is straight up children's drawing level right here. This is one I would very much like to redo at some point, as it's a cute scene that just looks... well, like that.

Day 6: Bad Day

I had the idea of this one a few days before Oct 6. I had just rewatched Smiling Friends season 2 and I wanted an excuse to reference the pose that Pim ends up in after getting absolutely zoinked in space. This one was fun, and an early attempt at intense lighting. The execution is once again kinda crusty, but this was the last of my sketch pen era.

Day 7: Different Time Period

She finally did it! She found the g-pen! Holy cats! Ok but yeah, this was a major step up from my first six drawings. I had been watching digital art tutorials for a few weeks at this point, but wasn't really integrating what I was learning until now, and it shows. Who knew that at least trying to render a piece made it much more visually appealling? Crazy, right? I'm still really proud of this one, even if it still has a lot of room for improvement. This is one I'd love to redo in a year or so's time to compare my progress.

Day 8: Movie Theater

The second in my g-pen era, and a lot more ambitious as well (by my standards). There's a lot going on here, and it took a while to get all the assets done. I admittedly cheated a bit, as the chairs are all duplicates, just with minor adjustments to lighting or skew, but eh, it's fine. Also SPAMTON SPOTTED!!111!! (I'm not obsessed I swear)

Day 9: Their Parents

This is where I started to play with proportions a bit more. I liked having a cartoony style, but I had been doing a bunch of studies of more realistic humans and wanted an excuse to play with that knowledge. The theme was also fun too, as this is totally something that I do to this day. (And apparently my mom before me did the same when she was younger, so it runs in the family I suppose)

Day 10: Favorite Snack

Ok but like, I LOVE pretzel M&M's. They are my lifeblood. They are my soul. They are my all. I'm not religious, but even I could see a loving god blessing this earth with a boon such as this. I would die for pretzel M&M's. I would give up firstborn son for pretzel M&M's. You don't want to know the lengths of which my yearning for these chocolatey spheres of heavenly glory would take me. So yeah, they're alright I guess lmao

Oh shoot, I didn't realize you could only include 10 pictures in a news post lol, guess I gotta split this up into thirds!

Part 2: https://electronat.newgrounds.com/news/post/1485180