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Newgrounds Villains October Art Challenge!

Posted by sackboy963 - 1 month ago


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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I’ll give it a try

so the collab is about all the ng villains

dr fetus being 1st is based

It was either that, or castle crashers.

This is a cool idea, I do love me some villains

Why is a Skull Girls character getting represented in a Newgrounds-themed event?

@ejulia14 skullgirls is tied to newgrounds - zone-sama, if you know them, they worked on the game. also tomamoto is the announcer

Not to mention Hnilmik provides voices Ms. Fortune and Robo Fortune, and RTIL provides many of the artwork!

How about Rolo Redstone from The Rhino and The Redbill?

Any original content that has been frontpaged on Newgrounds is qualified, and if that content's story has its own antagonist within it, then that villain is qualified for this challenge. You may either draw and post them at any day of October replacing with any of the suggestions above or reserve one at Oct 31st. Rhino and the Redbill was frontpaged so it's qualified.

@sackboy963 But must I do all the other previous days?

I've revised the guidelines to the challenge. I hope these suggestions for different templates have answered your question.

Is there aby prize money involved in this contest ?

This isn't a contest, this is more of an independent choice art challenge. There's no planned prize money.

@sackboy963 Ok, thank you for clearing that up.

Can I draw other villains instead od others that i don't know?

As long as they are from original content frontpaged on Newgrounds, whether movies, games, or webcomics. Content that is only exclusive on Youtube but no Newgrounds plug in does not qualify. However, content made by Newgrounds users outside of Newgrounds (Gooseworx, Darqv, Deadtoast, Jimp, Psychicpebbles, Innersloth, etc.) can be an exemption save for last day as fanart challenge or single illustration.

What is the 31st one and I might need an example.

For the 31st you have a few options:
1. Draw one more Newgrounds villain that's not on the suggestions list
2. Draw a 6 - 9 fanart challenge of villains from mainstream or Youtube series created by Newgrounds users (Gorgon Shield, Mao Mao Heroes of Pure Heart, Among Us, Smiling Friends, There is No Game, Nitrome, Flipline, etc.)
3. Draw a group gathering of all the villains you have planned for your art challenge agenda. (This one I will admit is the hardest one to do.)

@sackboy963 ok got it thanks

I dont know even half of these guys. Wonderful!

okay, what's the tag? Villaingrounds-2024?

Villaingrounds
Villaingrounds2024
or
Villaingrounds-2024

Oh I'll try :3

cool to see another month of prompts, however, REALLY HARD TO READ and my eyes only suck a little >.<

I've always wanted to draw the floppa Cara. :3