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