hey y'all what's good?

it's time for me to reflect on myself this year, as well as jot down my plans for next year!

quick art recap, my favorite drawing of each month

2024 was a huge step of improvement for me, compared to 2023. My art is a lot more colorful, vibrant, and neatly composed compared to last year. I really think this was a great year for me and my art. I made my resolution to draw more backgrounds, and do more environmental type of drawings. I'd say I did pretty well, and I'm real proud of myself.

This lana drawing shows my ability well imo, the underwater scenery with the pokemon swimming by, i fw this heavy

This yellow drawing is kinda simple with the bg, but I still like it a lot because of the vibes and stuff. IDK how to explain it but I really love the look of it.

I intend to go into 2025 with that same momentum, I usually dread backgrounds since i'm so use to just drawing characters behind a solid shape, but that shit is cringe if not done right, and i'm trying to do it right.

This year i started making small animations!

It started with this Swapnote loop back in April. It took me about a week to do, which made me realize that animation is mad work just for a small 1 sec, giving me a real admiration and respect for animators in general. I was enticed to do better since I do think the Nikki loop is a bit mehh now.

That May, the Paper Mario TTYD remake came out and I was playing tf out of it, I 100% the game in it's entirety. I decided to make an animation of Mario and Vivian dancing. A lot of people liked it and the animation became my most liked twitter post! I am DEF proud of it! It took a good 2 months because i was juggling between art and school, so I am extremely grateful it blew up.

I made another animation but i'll talk about it in a bit,

now let's talk about the Newgrounds events i participated in!

I participated in @loopykins' Valentines Day Collab!

I was tasked to make a Valentines' Card! Not only is it adorably corny, but I think my OC's look good in pink/red! Here's both the collab and my card.

FNF Weekend 1 was released, so I drew the Pico trio!

Pico Day came and went as usual, and I made my piece!

I made these 3 Pokemon gijinkas for @KittyhawkMontrose's upcoming Pokemon Gijinka Collab!

Be sure to stay on the lookout for it, I believe it is releasing soon!

^ the ceruledge one gotta be my favorite ^

The rest of the year went by pretty smoothly.

The Nintendo DS turned 20!

I participated in the Nintendo DS Collab organized by @DannyGoodShirt and put together by @scottwjsm

Check it out if you haven't already! I made the Pokemon Black animation, which by far was the most ambitious thing I've worked on.

Finally came Newgrounds Secret Santa, and mine took a few extra days to submit since I was in the middle of a power outage, but I got it taken care of and submitted my user's gift!

My gift was absolutely fire! Scott has never looked any better!

That wraps up Newgrounds events!

Now moving on to my goals for 2025. I've already spoken about drawing more backgrounds in my art, but I want to make even MORE animations too, and be MORE involved in Newgrounds events and activities. Also, i've been on and off when it comes to learning game development, but I've been working on a small little platformer as a side project. I just wanna put my OC's in something outside of a drawing, while expanding my creative abilities too! I'll keep my mouth shut until it's actually presentable. But that's about all I have to share! If you read the entire thing, I hope you got something outta this, cause I couldn't imagine what. God bless and take care!