Today marks 3 years on Newgrounds

I want to keep this year's recap short and sweet and not the wall of text that was last year's.

What I mainly want to say is that, although 3 years may seem like very little time to people who have been on the site for nearly a decade or often even longer, I not only started sharing art but started creating it only 5 years ago.

This means that I've been on Newgrounds for longer that I haven't been on it which is nice to think about but also maybe a little scary since time flies by, that first year of making art felt like an eternity in length compared to now. Though I guess 2023 also felt like an eternity, at the time I didn't realize it but looking back now I just think man what a slog of a year, my art was slow, class was slow, everything felt unbearably slow and awkward. I guess we tune out those things when we don't want to feel them but also I guess I'm glad it happened because it was also a period of growth in art but like, an awkward one youknow?? like your art is going through puberty.

Well getting back to 2024 which is the year this recap is about and not 2023, and talking about puberty. My brother has been incredibly unbearable during the year, he's gone full teenager mode and just fucking burps and farts and sleeps and lies every two steps he takes. It's just been a terrible mood at home since with him on the rise and I'm mainly just writing this so I don't forget about how annoying he's been in the future.

This is just a moderate size annoyance though, as apart from that 2024 and been a GREAT year for me, well more for my art than for me because I'm just same old same old but I'm very proud of almost all of the art I did this year and I also feel like I did a great quantity of it. And the end of the day I think I'll always feel like I should draw more, seeing to people who only live to draw and show a new drawing every other day and those that maybe don't draw as much but know how to pull their shit together and make a whole book or comic or something like that makes me feel like I'm a bad artist. But I guess this is just something a lot of us might feel and at the end of the day I'm glad that I'm someone with a positive mentality towards their art and has confidence in it and maybe that's all that matters.

Man I said I was going to keep it short and look at this, you don't realize all you have to say until you start writing it. At least it's shorter than the last one I guess and I said what I wanted to

Bye! Let's hope for a good 2025, I know it will be an uphill one but we'll just have to punch on

i just have work to do

broke my leg

Hey NewGrounds crew

Yesterday I made an account on Bluesky since it really recently went public (no more invite codes) so I thought I'll start posting there too

Here is:

https://bsky.app/profile/yolkbyte.bsky.social

Follow me if you think it's cool and if you think it's lame follow me too

ALSO I've yet to advertise it much I'm on on Tumblr too if you think that's hot:

https://www.tumblr.com/yolkbyte

One last thing I'm sitting on a bunch of cool art I'll hope to post!

My heart belongs to NewGrounds tho even if I'm a bit of a lurker♥️

It's the third of January 2024, that's two years I've been NewGrounds. Well, sorta.

My last post of 2022 was in July, and my first post of 2023 was also in July

ooops

I don't even remember why I left for a year and then came back what I do know is there's quite a few things I like I haven't posted because like they don't really fit in my gallery anymore idk lol

This post is now a year in review but for the last two years, ok? Ok

The start of 2022 was incredibly rough for me.

I was finishing my last year of school which I was desperately flunking, so it was all studying and studying and studying. Sitting in the computer reading and memorizing all of the history of Spain and doing and revising dozens of equations.

Only every drawing sad doodles in notebook margins.

Occasionally I'll still have nightmares where I have to study for an upcoming math exam or a nightmare where I'm sleeping in bed and don't want to wake up because I have an exam.

Lucky it's always a relief when I wake up!

In the end I did manage to pass all my classes, and I even managed to pass the EvAU exam (in Spain it's the exam you have to take to choose an university) with a fucking 5/10, and only because my English is practically native level and scored a perfect grade in that exam, I flunked the rest lol.

Not that I needed to or cared since I already had made up my mind about attending an art school.

During summer 2022 I made some of the art I'm the most proud of, but mostly tried to take it off because I remember that after studying so much I just could not relax, something that at the time I feared would remain forever but has since thankful subsided

During the 2022-2023 school year I joined an art school, like I said, and it's been a mixed bag.

On the one hand I've noticed my art maturing, both in themes and in style, which I'm super happy about.

On the other side of things I've been having trouble connecting with people. My classmates are all lovely and we all get along, don't get me wrong, but they are very different people from me and I feel like I don't belong. They are extroverted, like going out at night and gossiping, which is just not me.

Regardless, hope is the last thing you loose and I'm trying to see how I can get them to invite me to something. I should also call some of my old friends which I've unfortunately neglected to keep in contact with.

Summer 2023 I had the opposite problem as sumer 2022 where I felt lazy and guilty for not arting as much as I wanted to.

If you've read this far please comment the word "cardboard" and consider the following a little secret between us:

I've seriously considered pursuing erotic artwork or nsfw or whatever you want to call it, and not for the money, simply because I want to.

Looking at some of my most recent art in my gallery this might not come as a huge surprise, but I've yet to actually commit and draw some bits.

I had plans of drawing an erotic parody comic during the summer, but I just did not. If I really want to do this I gotta commit, and everytime I don't do anything of the sort in fear it will look bad or I won't like it or people won't like it or if people will judge me or whatever.

The comic is, at least, completely planned out and since then I came up with other concepts for such comics but that's all they are for the time being.

Please remember to comment the word "cardboard" lol

The back half of 2023 was a slow period for my art, in May I bought Procreate and said goodbye to my laggy old iPad program Adobe Fresco, which admittedly had some pretty cool features specifically for colouring, and I had to readjust. I had a pretty big art block since and I must've not coloured anything much for around 6 months.

Lucky these last few months have been really goodand have turned things around!

I've been drawing much more and even got some cool gadgets like an artist glove to help out, I've found new ways of colouring my digital art, even got lots of new awesome brushes tossed my way and made my first NewGrounds friends.

I'm hopeful for 2024.

This could be us but you don’t follow me

I met Matt Groening and asked him to draw cuphead this is so cool

I try to new grounds but I fail so hard HOWEVER this time I will new ground in the real life, I have a few ideas for the summer and I even paid 2.99 dolers to change my name LETS GO