Time to do this again

Yep, it's about that time for me to go back on my word again. I made a bluesky account since a bunch of people are migrating there now with Brazil's xitter situation, so I thought I may as well join that wave. I am very cautious when it comes to trying new platforms nowadays, but it already looks far better than Twitter ever did to me, so I'm at least a little optimistic.

Anyway, if you're on it, you can follow me there too. And I'd also like to see some other NG users' bluesky links so I can follow some people and take on the scaaary task of browsing social media occasionally.

I'm fighting art. I'm gonna do a few attacks later this month. I also finally uploaded a few characters of my own so that I can get brutally assaulted myself.

I also still haven't changed my profile picture because this site only allows pictures that are exactly 100x100 and I'm too lazy to do that shit

Fellas, I comicked, and I'm going to ramble about it for a while because I have months' worth of thoughts to dump.

Huh? What???

Yeah, you read it here first - I had an idea for a project, started working on it, didn't give up after doing 0.05% of the work and actually finished it, and now I can technically call myself a "comic artist" and actually have a real, tangible finished project to point at instead of a series of random character illustrations??? Yeah surely this can't be real, this is a coma dream

Why so late?

So, as described in the post, somewhere around the start of November I decided to join the Sweet Sixteen Comic Contest on a whim, and quickly came up with this in a day. I only had slightly over a month to finish this project, so I had to rush out basically everything from the story to the character designs, but I think I did an alright job with them.

Then, I got the flu or something a few days before the deadline, and was incapacitated for the remaining days. I mentioned in that post that I would have been able to finish it with just a little more time. It's finally time to admit that I was completely full of shit here and, at best, may have been able to finish the lineart but nothing more. I hadn't even drawn a cover yet until the deadline had already passed.

I decided to take a little break from it and then spend slightly more time making every page look nice, but not get TOO caught up in the polishing to the point where I wouldn't finish it at all. I wasn't sure what to do back in December but waiting was probably the right choice. I'm glad it came out in its current state instead of unfinished, even if I did not get to participate in the contest.

Why make/finish it at all?

The reason why I did it is because I really wanted to. For years now I've been that idea guy whose entire shtick has been that he WANTS to make things but just never really "gets around to it" or something. Now that I've finished this comic, I can go into my next project knowing that I have the ability (and patience) to see things through to the end, even if it takes a while.

Another thing is that, for years now, I've wanted to tell stories but I was never sure what medium would be a good fit for me, so whenever anyone asked me what I wanted to do with my art, I'd always bounce around between "uhhh maybe games uhhh maybe animation uhhhhh" etc. But now, after doing this, I've become pretty certain that I should become a comic artist.

Despite never having made comics before other than a small handful of gag strips years ago, I really felt at home doing this and didn't really run into any major difficulties like I thought I would. I think making comics is a good, natural and much-needed evolution for me to take my work to the next level and grow as an artist.

And what better time to do so than now, with Newgrounds having that shiny still-pretty-new Multi-Image update!

So what now?

I've spent a lot of time looking at, thinking about and drawing these guys so I think I'm gonna expand on this concept a little. I had a lot of time to think about it, so I already have multiple ideas to flesh out this world and these characters. Nothing crazy, but just to start, I should probably give them some names, and some minor redesigns wouldn't be too bad either.

Thanks for reading the comic, thanks for reading the post, thanks for occasionally glancing at my work and thinking "hey, nice!" and I'll see you the next one.

So this is a story all about how I decided at the start of November to see if I could make a comic for the S16CC and even though it's been a lot of work, it looked like I would have been able to crunch it out by Dec 11th, but then I decided to get sick (probably totally unrelated to my very good and well-balanced sleeping schedule) and I held out hope regardless but there is absolutely no way I'm finishing it now.

Whining aside, I'm currently wondering whether I should just release it in its unfinished state on the deadline, or just wait and finish it after the deadline. I didn't make it because I thought it was winner material anyway, I just wanted to make a simple oneshot comic already and got shockingly far compared to my previous "attempts" in the past.

I already sacrificed some things to make it to the deadline (very noticeable lack of proper backgrounds in most panels, for example) so now I feel like if I wait, I'm gonna get stuck in that polishing mind-trap of "oh now I may as well go back fix the rest" and never finish it at all.

I'm gonna sleep on it, but it is a damn shame regardless of what I end up doing. I really looked forward to finishing this, but I suppose the important thing is that I proved to myself that I can actually do it.

Oh hell yeah. Oh heeell yeah. Oh heeeeeee

Half a decade (of having an account) on Newgrounds. Don't have much to say other than that I love it here, I loved it here when I joined, and I'll continue to love it here in the future. I don't even fully remember why I joined (the date implies Tumblr exodus, but I didn't even have an account at the time so that probably can't be it) but whatever it was, I'm glad I did, and I am here to stay. See you at the 10th anniversary, losers

That is so gamer. Thanks fellas

COMMISSIONS ARE OPEN

Commissions are still open! If you're interested in a stylish character illustration, please shoot me a PM.

Payment will be done through PayPal, after the sketch has been completed (and no further edits have to be made to it)

If there's something that ISN'T on this list that you would like to see (icons, halfbody, etc), don't hesitate to ask anyway - we can definitely discuss it!

COMMISSIONS ARE OPEN

I'm doing commissions again! If you're interested in a stylish character illustration, please shoot me a PM.

Payment will be done through PayPal, after the sketch has been completed (and no further edits have to be made to it)

If there's something that ISN'T on this list that you would like to see (icons, halfbody, etc), don't hesitate to ask anyway - we can definitely discuss it!

Look mom, no damage