Villaingrounds Art Challenge 2025
It’s around that time again! Announcing 2025 for the upcoming October "Rogue Gallery" Art Challenge theme “Villaingrounds”! This time I’ve updated the rules based on last year’s experience.
Objective of this Year’s Art Challenge
Draw up to 30–31 villains based from animation, games, comics, or even concept arts uploaded on Newgrounds. It is not limited to only the frontpaged submissions, any original content that has been uploaded on NG is acceptable, frontpaged, daily featured, or have not been awarded yet. I am announcing the challenge a few months early to give more time for artists during the summer, and an addition of the latter half of August and September, so at least 3–4 months in advance before uploading starts. Uploading your art challenge starts at October 1st, and in sequence forward until October 30th or 31st. There is no prize for this art challenge, this is an inspired idea for artist to draw something for sheer leisure and fun. Feel free to share them on your social media platforms with the tag #villaingrounds and #villaingrounds2025.
Additional Guidelines
If there are content created by Newgrounders but are distributed to another platform besides NG, comment below to share if they can count. For villains in parodies based on existing properties should only consist of those taken in a more creative twist can be an exception (ex. Sansfield). Any other indie content not created by a Newgrounds user is not recommended to be placed under this art challenge. You can draw your choice of villain in full body with or without background, portrait or mug-shot, color, grayscale, or black and white similar to Inktober. Please do not use Gen AI to create your illustrations, it does not count if it’s not done by your hand, art is a choice that should not take this kind of shortcut. If you wish to only create a NG Halloween site skin for the website, you are free to do on the behest of drawing more than 4 villains on your style of your site skin concept.
Villaingrounds Suggestions
Below is just a list of suggestions of Newgrounds villains or series featuring their own respective antagonists. You can choose to follow through this list or bring up other Newgrounds content featuring their own antagonists, or do a mix of both Newgrounds series from this list and others you can fondly remember that you want to share with. Halloween day (Oct. 31st) is a free choice, where you can decide the last illustration style you want to finish with (bonus villain(s), whole/partial group portrait, draw characters template meme, etc.). If there are any other Newgrounds content that I have not placed in the suggestions list, feel free to comment below, remember the Newgrounds submission should include at least one antagonistic character. If you are unable to draw a villain for all the days of the October month, you are free to do a partial of the month.
Hold up, there’s reference to NSFW content on NG!
I decide to include at least one Adult content (#5.) uploaded on Newgrounds since its decision to allow certain NSFW submissions since the “Great Tumblr Automated Cleansing”, giving the site significant impact towards its increasing user traffic before “FNF” boost it even more. Not to mention, there is one NG Adult animation including its own antagonist, so I took the opportunity to include one. Newgrounds has long since allowed Adult animations and flash games since 2006, even NSFW comics are finding a place here, original or parody otherwise, so referencing one of the most viewed and popular one feels like acknowledging Newgrounds history. I also decided to set this announcement rating to “E”, even though these are adult content, the creators still upload art and animations and rate them “E” and “T” based on whether it follows the site’s guidelines, so most of their content will be discovered sooner or later.
Update: Additional Rogue Gallery suggestions
By suggestion, I will also be providing additional "Villaingrounds" references for artists who do not wish to draw NSFW content to their art challenge. I've pasted the image below in PNG. Please let me know if the image resolution is still hard to make out, I have tried to find which image format provides the highest defined resolution and PNG is the only one I know that can so far.
Tennon 
DigitalProdigy 
Reinnbow 
Hyenaedon 
