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    A person with intrusive daydreaming thoughts, attempting to express them through drawings.

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    Posted by sackboy963 - 9 days ago


    Looking back, I did not contribute to this site as much as I hoped for, nor did I contribute to my personal passionate hobby as I hoped for. I only did two digital illustrations that I posted this year here on NG, and they were only fanart ideas, either crossovers or OCs. I did do some traditional sketching here and there, but I was hoping to revised them digitally in the future, which I guess I'll work on next year (hopefully). Because of the bird flu issue growing more drastic and there are no online classes enough for me to take, I might need to take a semester "pause", but that doesn't mean I can take a 5 - 8 month break. I may start looking for part-time work if I don't take a full-term semester at the start of 2025, and it doesn't help that my family is getting me to finish my university education ASAP. I've already was going to enroll for 5 - 6 classes mixed with in-campus and one online, and we make have second thoughts due to public concerns.


    On the good news, right now me and my family are on vacation at Corpus Christi, and although there was tension at the beginning, it surprisingly got better these past 2 days. Me and my mother got to visit Mustang Beach then Port Aransas and we saw some dolphins and a wild sea turtle! And today we visited a science & history museum and an art museum during a free admission sponsorship by HEB, also ate some fish tacos at Sarina Park! Tomorrow will be our last day and I do have a place in mind to visit, but it's most likely going to be another beach area. If anyone has visited Padre Island or Corpus Christi and have any suggestions on where we should visit, feel free to drop suggestions! I'll post some dolphins and sea turtle pictures for anyone who are curious to see (I couldn't get a clear shot on their faces, sorry!)iu_1327632_7272220.webpiu_1327631_7272220.webpiu_1327634_7272220.webpiu_1327633_7272220.webpiu_1327635_7272220.webpiu_1327636_7272220.webpiu_1327638_7272220.webp


    I don't know what the future holds for all of us, let alone me and my family. I still have no other choice but face it head on, push forward, and brace unprecedented changes up ahead. Here's wishing you at least had a enjoyable or at least a relaxing New Year's by the end of 2024 and the beginning of 2025!


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    Posted by sackboy963 - November 16th, 2024


    Late update on this, but university, what can you do?


    Honestly it was a mixed feeling of hopeless dread of announcing at a pretty late time for most artists, wasn't really considering that timeframe (turns out announcing it at the second week of September was still late for most artists). Maybe it was my guidelines were too strict, maybe there was some misconception that I didn't word out right, or maybe it was my template wasn't appealing enough. But it didn't mean there weren't any artists that try to take up the challenges, just only a few. And unfortunately there were at least 3 who attempted but gave up due to their personal schedule restraints. On the bright side, there were at least 2 artists who managed to take up the challenge all the way through the month, on actually pull through 31 days, and another did a full group illustration (not sure if collage is the right word for it), and it got frontpaged on the day of Halloween!. Shout outs to @CatNya313, @Mattmax483, and @HeroPapaya for attempting the challenge, and HUGE SHOUT OUT to @MOHD5aqer and @remalicious for pulling through completing the challenge!


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    Posted by sackboy963 - September 13th, 2024


    Newgrounds October Art Challenge: Villaingrounds


    What is this Art Challenge?

    This is an upcoming October art challenge for Halloween. The main theme is villains from online content or projects frontpaged on Newgrounds, whether they’re movies, games, or comics. The inspiration of this theme is based on Disney’s Halloween villains. The challenge will start on October 1st. You are free to decide whether to participate fully, partially, or not.


    The goal of the art challenge

    The challenge is to come up with 31 (or more) villains from web content frontpaged on the Newgrounds portal (Movies, Games, Comics). The challenge’s purpose is to give awareness to the Newgrounds platform and the content available there where they are not popular enough on the Internet. This is also another opportunities for artists on Newgrounds to have illustrations for potential to be frontpaged and possibly gain new followers("fans"). Artists can also submit their illustrations to their online social media accounts or art portfolios to gain more viewership traction online. You can also include villains from indie games curated by Newgrounds on Steam or based on trailers or promo art frontpaged on Newgrounds.



    Main guidelines

    Although the indie content within Newgrounds is vast, it is highly suggested to focus on content that has been frontpaged. Daily picks or mainstream shows, games, and webcomics created by Newgrounds users (ex. Smiling Friends, Mao Mao Heroes of Pure Heart, The Amazing Digital Circus, Gorgon Shield, I Was Born to work Retail, etc.) are an exception and can be implemented at Oct 1st (choose 1 villain) or 31st (6 or 9 fanart template). The content frontpaged on Newgrounds must be original content and not based on fan animations unless serialized (Decline in Video Games, Minecraft Noob Adventures, SMBZ). Villains from indie series that are only available on YouTube but no Newgrounds plug in goes against the theme of this art challenge and is not recommended to include in this challenge (Helluva Boss, Murder Drones, Bigtop Burger, Long Gone Gulch, etc.) unless they are available AND either frontpaged or daily picked on Newgrounds before October.


    You can illustrate in any style you want! You can draw your choice of villain in full body with or without background, portrait or mug-shot, color, grayscale, black and white, whichever style you feel is easy and adaptable within your schedule! You can even illustrate them in traditional ink in the spirit of "Inktober" as well, two challenges in one month! Just please don't resort to relying on AI, it ruins the challenge and effort of hand drawing if you never have hands-on practice. Do not repost someone else's illustration as your own either, you can share but you must give credit to the original artist.



    If you are unable to fulfill the 31 days art challenge, you can also have the option to do 5 days (non-aligned) of 6 panels characters template with an additional 1 template, 3 days of 9 panels template with an additional 4 panels challenge template, or a mix of both (2 days for 6 panels template and 9 panel templates respectively. If you want to just post one for a single day, you can post an illustration of 31 villains in one piece either as a group portrait or a fanart challenge template (speaking as someone who have spent almost a month doing a similar illustration idea, this is not recommended). It's okay for having a favorite indie project and wanting to give awareness to it, but posting just one Newgrounds villain illustration for the whole month may seem that you are playing favoritism, and this challenge is to come up with villains from different indie content on Newgrounds. If you wish to post these on your social medias (X, Bluesky, Meta social medias), you can use the hashtag #villaingrounds or #villainsgrounds to announce the art challenge trend.



    Below is a list of villain suggestions for Villaingrounds Art Challenge. The first 7 are games curated by Newgrounds, 7 indie series, 7 webcomics, and rest are additional ideas. If you have a favorite indie project or series you want to draw, you can choose those over any of the suggestions here. If you need more suggestions, I will post a doc link of different villains I could find that are on Newgrounds or promoted by Newgrounds. Remember, you don't have to draw these villains specifically, you just need to come up with at least 31 Newgrounds content (3-5 animations, games, and webcomcis respectively) you like that have their own antagonists.

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    Posted by sackboy963 - September 6th, 2024


    Where to begin? In Mid August me and my family managed to recover from Covid, but it left us with coughing fits, my closest relative express pain from their body area below their right breast. Few weeks as of now, we've been taking home remedies to treat the coughing fits, and we seem to be coughing less now, so that's some good news. We still might have to see our usual doctor to see if there are any long-term damage to our inner bodies or organs thanks to the virus (I pray my family to be free from this). Covid was a horrible experience, over 10 days down the drain, we cannot get infected again, which is hard since MOST OF HUMANITY stopped caring and doesn't bother about it AND its mutations.


    Anyways, enough about my modern humans vs pandemic rant...


    My first university choice they couldn't accept me, but my second university choice did so I got to start my fall semester but on a full-term just to qualify for the financial aid I signed up for, so unfortunately not only will I won't have time for self computer program study, but I will have no time to draw at all. I am already eating up minutes of my time expressing current updates on my personal life. Not to mention due to my major most of the courses I have to take are on campus, and I do NOT feel comfortable going into cramped rooms every since the 2020 pandemic (not to mention actually getting affected). There might be some living conditions that might have to be arranged if I were to drive back and forth from my home to my campus in the future, so there might, JUST MIGHT, be a chance I have to move back to my old hometown just to get to campus better. I know it was my decision to go on full-term for my semester, but I'm honestly kind of bummed out as I won't be able to arrange any free time for myself, and the next three upcoming months are going to be more stressful since I have to go in-campus instead of online.


    To show that I'm still alive, here's a pic of my attempt to draw anatomy digitally. Special thanks to @Rappenem for their anatomy studies submission and their numerous art references that they've been posting here. Go check out their page and links!


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    Posted by sackboy963 - August 9th, 2024


    I feel I kind of lost count somewhere. This may be my last post, not only have there been little to no responses to these posts, but I feel I am fully recovering. My closest relative is planning on getting tested at the hospital this weekend to see if they're still positive or negative, they still have coughing fits but it's much more less than before, I just hope it will not be a new constant for them. I may be recovering physically, but mentally, it will still take a while to adjust to this. Our lives are going to be a whole lot different, I really wish and hope it's only temporary (even though it's just wishful thinking).


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    Posted by sackboy963 - August 5th, 2024


    So good news, yesterday we went to the hospital for a checkup, and my closest relative does not seem to have any permanent damage to their organs due to covid. As for me, my covid symptoms are getting lighter and the doctor has told me how my body is still fighting well with the virus, but they say it may take 5 days, a week or two for full recovery and to have a negative test. My relative was able to drive us to the hospital yesterday, and they are coughing much less than before, they're still coughing hard but it's a sigh of relief for me knowing there is no internal damage in their bodies. I've been taking care of their needs more than our step-relative who went out today (possibly to work, not completely sure), and we will still be quarantining ourselves for another week. It still feels miserable that you can't do a lot about your situation, but at least I get to spend more time on this site, maybe I can prepare some linework for anatomy references.


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    Posted by sackboy963 - August 3rd, 2024


    So it's been a full week of Covid for me and my family. So far I still may have a slight fever since every night I go to sleep, I wake up sweating in the morning (and in some occasions diarrhea). My nose is still congested and I got some mucus in my throat, but I don't cough as much. My closest family member has an on and off fever thanks to the ibuprofen they've been taking but they still have a coughing problem and it's been hurting their chest. I am worried for their health and just begging for their pain to ease. Our step-member seems to have light symptoms, they have some coughs and a possible fever, but they are not taking this emotionally well.


    Our step-member lashed out at my relative and I told them to back off, not to get angry at them. They seem to be more stressed than the rest of us even though they have lighter symptoms. I want our situation to get better by the next week and my closest relative can be relieved of their coughing at least. It doesn't help that our AC is not acting up very well and it is scorching out there, and none of us are in any condition to fix the problem. Fortunately I have a portable AC in my room but it can only relieve my room temperature temporarily until the next morning, and I hope that my relative across the hall don't feel hot and have at least some cool air through their air vent.


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    Posted by sackboy963 - July 29th, 2024


    It started two days ago when one of my relatives was having a fever, their throat was sore, they was very weak, and they seemed to have sore spots. We didn't think it was covid because the rest of us didn't had any symptoms similar to theirs. Today, they wasn't getting any better to the point they were taken to the hospital. I got the news from my step-relative that they was tested positive, and there is a chance that we all got it. Right now we are focusing on recovery at home and keeping a distance to ourselves as much as possible.


    This was really heavy news for me to hear. This virus has killed millions of people before, and because of the incompetence of us as a society, it has become the new flu. I have also heard it can do longlasting damage to the immune system once you take even the slightest strand of DNA, I don't know if that's true, but that is enough to give me an existential dread of our future. I am currently processing this news, and am just dread that even if we are to recover from it, the thought occurs how much of our lifespan has shortened. I pray to whatever God is out there, but I feel me and my family has been forsaken.


    Everything is changing, everything is different now, and it feels it just got a lot more hopeless.


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    Posted by sackboy963 - February 18th, 2024


    Forgot to mention it here, but yeah, had some cake, have the day for myself, pretty good day.


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    Posted by sackboy963 - November 24th, 2023


    Question to every person who draws on their computers/laptops with drawing tablets,


    I'm currently using Medibang Paint for practicing on my Wacom Intuos PT S CTH-490 Comic Pen & Touch Tablet. I may have the opportunity to purchase a different drawing software or a drawing tablet with a screen so I can see what I draw on the tablet instead of my computer's monitor, I have trouble watching where my stylus draws on the screen without watching where I draw on my tablet. I also heard a lot of recommendations for Clip Studio drawing software from many people who recommend a software for digital drawing over traditional drawing, but I want to hear your opinions if they agree, differ, or give the okay for Medibang Paint. I heard there are still other software alternatives such as Krita, Paint tool SAI, MyPaint, etc., but I have heard more positive expectations on Clip Studio, so that software is the first choice I have in mind. Whoever reads this, let me know when you can, I heard today's a special sales day so I want to take this opportunity.


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