I've actually been meaning to do another one of these for at least a couple weeks now, I might even have enough of a backlog of people that I can do another one here in January too!

Anyway, let's go ahead and get started!

First up on today's list is someone you've probably seen if you've spent any time playing Tankmas ADVENTure this year...it's @BeepBeepBastard! Who I recently discovered actually has some really nice art, in addition to their talent for roasting the golden marshmallow! Their colors and linework both give off such a warm and cozy vibe, perfect for this time of year.

Second up is @Slitherbop, who's stuff I've been completely enamored with lately; I've never really seen anything quite like it. The bright colors, along with the surreal, nightmarish sorts of scenes packed with detail are just kind of endlessly fascinating to me. Definitely one of the coolest new artists I've seen here lately.

On that note, @Pantamonte is another one of the most exciting new NG artists I've seen. They've got some really striking character work, with this air of spookiness running throughout.

Keeping on that train of newer NG artists, @Supernovaart's gallery is so darn cute. The way they color would work really well in a lineless style and I'd be kinda be curious to see them attempt it sometime, but I also really like their colored linework too. It gives everything they do a nice soft and charming feel to it.

Breaking my own rules a bit for this one, because their a little bigger than our typical features, but I also just really wanted to showcase @ericoliZZ because they're someone who's consistently impressing me with these strange and imaginative sorts of images. They're usually dreamy and a little gooey, but occasionally there's something quite sweet too! (Did I mention they've also got quite a bit of traditional art?)

And I think that's it for this time! I hope you're all having a nice holiday season! Stay warm any way you can! Drink cider, sit next to the fire, or cozy up under an electric blanket. We'll see ya again next year!

The team and I have just released a sequel campaign for Tidying Up called Secrets of the Sewers! For everyone who felt the base game was too easy, this one is significantly harder and features quite a few new tiles (which you can also use in creating your own levels as well)

Give it a try here! We hope you'll enjoy! (and I'd thank you forever if you helped us promote this for Tuesday Takeover today)

It's been way too long since I've done one of these again.

My life feels like it's been in a very strange limbo state for these last couple months where I'm working a lot less, but money is much, much tighter as a result, so I'm trying to figure out some little things I could do without having to sacrifice too much of this extra free time. I might take a couple commissions, and I also put up a few older prints/stickers on Etsy for anyone interested. I dunno. I'm not too worried or anything, it's just something I'm learning to adapt to a bit.

Enough on that though, I really just wanted to do another one of these artist features! I feel like bi-monthly is a probably a good pace for these tbh. I think I can commit to that. We can dig a little deeper that way than if I tried to do it every month. Anyway, let's get started!

@Cogdop's style is one I could only describe as quirky, silly, and a little bit retro. It's deceptively simple at first glance, but they pack an incredible amount of detail in the background. 

@Mutant-Girl-Mintt is a little bigger than our typical feature here, but their colors and character designs are so sharp and punchy, that I felt like I needed to highlight them anyway. Their expressions are top notch too!

@Goldy675 is someone who I'm really not sure I can sum up in a sentence or two because their range is VERY wide, but I think it would be safe to call their stuff "weird and experimental" as a whole. Definitely worth a deep dive because I really can't properly showcase what they can do in here.

@jekstein is someone who I think will eventually explode here anyway, but I just wanted to feature them because I absolutely adore their soft colors and macabre sense of detail. Tis the season, after all.

@andkklol is someone I met through this year's Art Fight, and I had no idea they had an account here until after the fact when they started posting stuff. They've got such a cute, playful sort of style; I feel like it'd be a lot of fun in an animation.

And I think that's all I've got for this time! In other news, I think haunted house game is really gonna happen, although there's a less than zero chance it'll be something anyone will be playing this Halloween season. Planning is happening though! :D

I know I've been really quiet this month so far, but I've actually been pretty busy, and should get to see some new stuff very soon! I've got a piece in @Kekiiro's circus zine collab which should be out sometime at the beginning of next week, and then I've also been working on a series of cutscenes for a sort of “hard mode” expansion of Tidying Up!

We brought @chippythecat on board to the Tidying Up team after seeing how much she was able to accomplish with the built in level editor, and the expansion has a bunch of new tiles to help spice things up too! This update has been something we've been planning for a long time, so I'm excited that we're getting pretty close to finally putting it all together. It's very silly.

I also really wanted to take some time to do another “underrated artists” feature though! It's been way too long since I did the last one of these. I think most of the folks on here this time are people I've caught on the front page at one point or another but they're still surprisingly small for the amount of talent they've got.

@decarbry is someone I've found this way most recently, and I immediately fell in love with their compositions and the way they handle backgrounds is nothing short of stunning. I picked out two with some cats here, but they've got quite a bit of variety to their subject matter; it's all fantastic.

@jkn159 has only posted a couple pieces in 2024 so far, but I'm so happy I was able to catch one of them, because I love their character designs SOOOO much! There's so many unique patterns and vibrant colors to them, it makes me think of Chinese New Year celebrations.

@Fvu admittedly doesn't have too many pieces posted yet aside from sketches, but those sketches have so much energy and edgy attitude I decided to include them anyway. Really excited to see where they end up taking this stuff.

@pixiehellpuppy alternates between some nice bright and punchy tattoo/sticker designs, and some dreamier character art, but I think both are a lot of fun; all of it has a real punk rock edge to it.

And then I think we'll close this out with @prismvisual, who's retro aesthetic is absolutely immaculate (and very relevant to my interests) Beautiful textures and a nice nostalgic art style make their stuff feel right at home alongside the cartoons and comics that inspired them.

That's all I've got for this time! I'll probably still be pretty quiet on the art front for about another week as I finish up the last cutscene for Tidying Up, but here's one little sneak preview of that if you want one.

I'm going to preface this by just stating ahead of time that this is gonna be a long one. You can just scroll through the pics and get a pretty good sense of the trip if you don't want to/can't read. >.>

I finally decided to attend my first proper "Newgrounds meet up" and a video game convention seemed like a great excuse to finally visit Philadelphia for the first time too, so my bf and I packed up and headed off last Thursday, flying all the way out there!

Things started off smoothly enough, and we even got a free upgrade on the car we rented because they were out of the cheaper option. This turned out to be both a blessing and a curse, in that I'm not sure I'd ever want a car this advanced myself (We couldn't even figure out how to turn it on without help...)

We were greeted to Philly by Top Dog and his countless doppelgangers across the interstate (we have someone similarly oversaturated here named Kris Lindahl. If you've ever been to Wisconsin or Minnesota, you'll immediately recognize this guy)

Once we made it to the hotel, things took a real hard turn, as the "Hotel 6" we had reserved a room at for the entirety of our stay turned out to not actually be a Hotel 6 at all, and had not been a Hotel 6 for quite some time. This turned into a real fiasco, which I'll spare the details on, but we ended up getting transferred into a REAL Hotel 6 considerably closer to the convention a few hours later. Coincidentally, we even ended up with a room right across the hall from @Teravex and @Connorgrail, which was a real blessing, because the room we were given didn't have a refrigerator T_T We got to play a bit of Mario Kart together that night, and Teravex ended up destroying the rest of us, despite claiming he was "only okay".

The next day was the first day of the convention, so we headed over early, grabbed up our badges and sat down in the waiting area, where we met @DAMOCHINE and @Malfromed. We got to do a little sticker and sketchbook swap around our little circle and before they opened up the floodgates.

The meetup itself didn't start for about an hour after it opened, I got to explore the vendor hall a bit and JEE-SUS, Too Many Games lives up to its name. I have never seen so many games in my life, I even spotted a Panasonic Gamecube and a couple copies of Panzer Dragoon Saga in the wild for the first time. A lot of the prices on things at the con were pretty high, so I didn't actually buy too much, but other the course of the three days, I did grab up a few things. More on that at the end though!

The meetup itself was both a lot of fun and a lot of me trying to read name tags and fumbling around with my box of prints I'd decided to bring a lot with me without a proper lid. I first spotted @Hibachi, and then @Tyler, (who I really wish I could have spent a bit more time with, because I feel like our art has a lot in common and we're both around the same age, so we've both kind of watched Newgrounds really evolve over these last 15 years or so)

Shortly after, I got "goosed" by @DeuceLeGoose, who gave me a little ribbon for my badge, but from there, things all become a bit of a blur. I really didn't get to spend more than a minute or two with any one person, but I'll try my best to list off a bunch of folks I know I did meet in there.

I was really happy to finally get to meet @Kekiiro, even if I didn't get to spend enough time with her either, she gave me three of her stickers sheets, so I let her have two prints

I think @Tamag0 was the only person I got a picture with besides Connorgrail, who was taking some pics with his 3DS (I still think this was a good gimmick)

@MSGHero asked me a bit about working in Flash, (Flash for life baby!)

@Figburn gave me a couple of super cool character cards

@Nicksenny had the coolest jacket out of anyone there, and I felt like I got to have some good (if brief) conversations with both him and @RickSteubins

@Yendor popped out of nowhere for a surprise interview

I also got one of those Pico Day trading card packs like I dreamed I might, and I had @Chourios sign the card I got of her in there

Some other folks I know I saw, but didn't want to leave out!

@Goobus-Doobus, @Slimygoo, @EugeneDoesArt, @Dungeonation, @neatoshin (I had not seen your art before the meetup, but it's real cool) @brandybuizel, @CorTat-G, @wayyward, @kiyo, @Psychogoldfish, @ManlyPotato, @Forgefrog, @Broly, @Anislug, and probably some more folks I'm forgetting (I'm sorry!)

And then I also spotted @PKettles and @MKMaffo but I was too shy to talk to either of them (I love both you though!)

At the tail end of the meetup, I talked to Tyler again for a bit and when I told him I never actually met @TomFulp during the whole meetup, he decided we were gonna wait for him once he was getting ready to go. I feel bad now because I didn't even think to give him anything in my box of prints or even my stickers, but I'm very bad about thinking in the moment or initiating anything, so it was a pretty simple "hi" in the end. (In case you end up reading this, I just wanted to say I really like what you're doing with the site and its a real breath of fresh air though!)

Okay, so meet over, let's get to the haul picture to close out the meetup section of this post:

The next day we'd go back to the convention and I ended up participating in a Smash Ultimate tournament for the first time. I ended up losing in the first round and getting sent to the losers bracket right away, but ended up winning a couple matches in a row there before finally losing again and dropping out of the tournament. It was fun though! Would try again sometime! (I'm a Piranha Plant girl)

We also met up with a couple of my bf's friends from New Jersey this day and spent the rest of the day browsing around the con and then capped off the night with a trip to the Cheesecake Factory and some video games back at their hotel room.

Sunday was the final full day of our trip, so we decided it needed to be the day where we really get out to the city itself to do some exploring; take in the sights and sounds and try to get a little sense of the culture. I took a lot of pictures on this day, so I'll let those do most of the talking here.

Our first stop was Philly AIDS Thrift, which was very much the sort of place I love to see. Lots of colors and a real eclectic sort of style to the whole place.

From there, we got a true "Philly" cheesesteak from Jim's South St, which was recommended to me by some locals, and afterwards, we headed to the Chinatown area, which had a lot of fun little shops and sights.

(I'm going to steal this color palette at some point)

Look at this goofy little guy!

And this guy! We love him!

After visiting all the shops, we decided we'd better head on down to the Liberty Bell (because we needed to pay our respects before it all comes crashing down soon >.>) We got there five minutes before they closed it down for the night, but the second we stepped inside it started an absolute downpour and by the time we made it back out to our car we were completely and utterly drenched head to foot. It was a bad time. We got a couple more good pics though!

We ended up going to the Philadelphia art museum earlier today, which was also pretty neat. I got to see some Monet's up close, which is all I really needed to get from the experience to be satisfied. :)

And I think that about wraps everything up! Here's that game/art haul from the convention I promised earlier.

You heard me! I'm doing Art Fight again this year!

At least I'm gonna try...my work schedule is currently eating away nearly every second of free time I should have, but I love Art Fight and I don't want to let that deter me, I still wanna try to get to as many characters as I can without killing myself. (Sadly, I can't say the same for this year's writing jam, which I also really wanted to do....I might circle back on that and do a poem related to one of the themes when I have more time though. I've had some ideas brewing)

Anyway, here's my card, and if you click it, it'll link to my profile too! I'm on team Seafoam, purely because I prefer the color and the sound of the word itself.

Been meaning to do another one of these for a while now, but I always seemed to get caught up in something else. May was a busy month for me, but we'll come back to that later at the end of this whole post. Let's get started with this month's artists feature!

@iocus69 has such a nice flow to their shapes and forms, and I always love how eye catching their color palettes are. It sounds like they have a longer animation project on the way too? I'm really looking forward to it.

@FloofyBibi is brand new to the site, but has already been posting some really cute chibi sorts of pieces. (Also, welcome to the site! I hope you enjoy it here!)

@gottagitgud is also pretty new to the site, but already great in my book; some incredible attention to detail in all of their pieces, and their environments are just as carefully and impeccably rendered as the characters themselves.

@sugarbunny98 nails that whole 90s Cartoon Network look in their work, both in the thick outlines and the strong shape language in the designs themselves. I'm also a big sucker for those grainy textures; adds a lot of depth.

@Kadalsaurus has a really unique, dreamy sort of style, where they'll use these textures brushes to create this sort of surreal haze throughout the whole piece. Curious to what that process might look like.

@animalsacrifice is someone I meant to highlight earlier this year, and in that time it seems they've changed their username and I got really confused for a second, haha. In any case, I love the whole punk rock/Tank Girl sort of aesthetic they've got going on.

And I think that's about all I've got for this time around! Gonna try to be more consistent and get this back up to a monthly thing!

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In other news, I'm gonna go to this year's Too Many Games in Philadelphia at the end of this month! I've never been to Philly before, so in addition to hopefully meeting some of you all, I'm probably gonna do some exploring while I'm there! Also, sidenote, if anyone else is going, and wants to trade some art prints/stickers with me during the meetup, I'm very down to do so! I'm gonna bring a bunch of different prints and a set of my mime stickers, so I'm really hoping to get some swapping going over there. Feel free to hit me up if you're interested! :)

It's time; I did a good amount of digging around for the Newgrounds treasure hunt, and we need to do another one of these. So let's get started!

I love how playfully punk rock @victorabbe's whole gallery is; there's so many quirky little loop animations and inventive ideas in there. This one's really worth a deep dive.

@AirCityStudios is an absolute madman, and I truly don't understand why he doesn't have more followers than he does because his technical proficiency is off the charts. He's got a couple different styles he works in, but they're both polished like glass.

@nollthere combines these nice pastel palettes with nature and the occult to create these stunning, neatly organized illustrations that all feel like they'd make great prints.

@anshiiiiin is probably my personal favorite in this issue's lineup. Their images tell stories, both haunting and surreal, but refuse any singular interpretation; shadows often cloud the forms, only causing them to further linger in your mind. Truly outstanding stuff.

@arttoon's work perfectly emulates that old UPA art style with simple forms and minimal linework that give their designs a really bold and striking look.

And I think that's all I've got for this time!

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In other news, I'm stunned with just how many people have played Homecoming already. I fully expected the content, and the type of game it is to drive most folks away, but I'm delighted that people have given it a chance, and I'm also incredibly grateful that Newgrounds both exists and is willing to put something like Homecoming right there on the frontpage. It really means an awful lot.

My interactive story project, Homecoming, is finally out today. I've had it finished for a couple days now, but with Trans Visibility Day coinciding with Easter, and April Fool's being the next day, the timing just didn't feel quite right to me. It's been exactly one year since I originally wrote this story, which I uploaded last Trans Visibility Day as an audio piece, but I always kind of envisioned it as something more. I think the visual element, along with a terrific score I got from @Connorgrail, @Quarl, and Effie Vision add a lot of depth to it and really heighten the emotion of the story.

Anyway, but I really hope you'll give it a shot. It's the most personal story I've ever released.

If emotional anguish isn't your thing though, I also just put out a much lighter story for that Storytime Collab too, called "If The Shoe Fits". It's very silly.

And thanks to all these folks for helping out with that one too:

@Rudeboyeeee , @Dieswyx , @Kekiiro, @Praise-Bob, @Tamag0, @Krampus

I actually wasn't planning on doing another one of these so soon, but lately I've been seeing a ton of great new artists here including a few I'd always see around on Deviantart, and I really wanted to show them some love and a warm welcome here!

On that note, I really wanted to start with @ninacti0n who's always pulling off these insane color schemes with their wildly imaginative and experimental art style. Always a joy to see what they cook up during the Art Fight season too; really cool stuff.

We're just gonna keep on going with the gooey, surreal stuff here, so next, I wanted to highlight @udonkno who has this really nice fluidity to their forms, along with those bright, trippy, eye popping colors.

@ouhmathew seems to have a bit of a niche, but there's no denying they've got a real knack for that niche. Great expressions and some really nice shapes in their designs.

In a similar fashion, @8RUSADER's finds success in capturing that Final Fantasy/Bravely Default look with their soft colors and cute but surprisingly detailed character designs.

@baphylamb is someone I met through Xinxinix's Art Talks server, I'd always see them posting these WIP pics, but it actually took me a bit to track them down on NG itself. They've got a great eye for detail and lighting, and there's a nice variety to their gallery too.

@novaruah hasn't posted too much yet, but what they have shows an awful lot of promise; some really fun angles and poses in here. They also participated in that Adult Swim Collab that released just yesterday!

And I think that's all I've got for this time! On a more personal note, I'm getting' pretty close to finishing my visual novel, Homecoming, and it should be ready for you all to play sometime next month. I've got about 15-16 shots left and then I just need to work out a few kinks here and there with the programming/audio.