Happy New Year, Newgrounds!!

I wanted to post a nice New Years drawing today, but I've been a little burned out in terms of art, what with the Secret Santa event and the writer's jam! so I might as well just post something here! Kind of a recap of the year, like a lot of other people are doing!

The more I think about it, 2023 was a pretty good year for me!! I had this idea in my head that I "accomplished nothing" or some shit like that, but I did a bunch of things this year that I'm happy about!

winter

My first drawing of 2023 was this fanart of Badass Beatrice! I still really like how this turned out haha!

Made this Valentine's day Pico fanart in February haha!

spring

Listened to my sister's club playlist in March and this was the result xD

Hit my one year newgrounds-versary in April and was really excited to see this get frontpaged!!!! :D

I had a really happy Pico Day in May! I'm really proud of this drawing still, because of the sheer amount of time it took and the number of characters I included!

I'm also really happy with this drawing of Boyfriend I did hehe!

summer

I don't really open up about my mental health all that much on here, but I'll just say I struggle with getting out there sometimes. But I pushed myself out of my comfort zone in June and went all the way to Philly to meet some Newgrounds people at Too Many Games!! It was amazing. I even wrote a blog post about it. A really sappy blog post.

I've been getting into gaming more, and playing a bunch of classics, thanks to @ErasmusMagnus. Thanks to him, I played Half Life for the first time and drew some aliens xD

Naturally, I drew a lot of pico fanart this year. Made this in June as well.

Drew my character Delilah for the first time in July. She is a book character, so this was me translating her from written words to an art version?? if that makes sense xD

Also in July, I had the honor of my character Kelly making a cameo on Doodlepup's Missing Wagon by StormyDew! This is seriously one of the coolest things that's happened to me on Newgrounds so far!!! Stormy is one of my favorite artists. This game is amazing and so fun, please go check it out!!

Made this comic in August, about my character Kelly.

fall

In September I participated in Writer's Jam 1! I wrote a story called Jamie, and it got second place! Made some art to go along with it!

I also participated in the Dinosaurs Attack Collab in October!!

For the Spooktacular, I drew a zombie version of my character, Kelly, based off the Half-Life mod, They Hunger

I had to say goodbye to my sweet hedgehog, Wendy in October.

I missed her too much to not get a new hedgie though. Made sure he looked nothing like her xD! His behavior is the polar opposite of her too I've realized, haha! I drew him for fun, and there's also a pic of him uploaded with the drawing.

Drew Gordon Freeman for Half-Life's 25th anniversary in November!

Also drew Kelly wearing an ugly sweater in November!

winter again

In December, I took part in the Gogos collab!!!

The Gogo I drew was Neko! I had like, four of him when I was a kid

I was gifted a drawing tablet in the giveaway in December!!! I made this with it so far! I want to get better at animation, and I'm looking forward to one day making something for the movie portal with this tablet!

Like I said, I wrote a short story for Writer's Jam 2 on Christmas Eve! I was a bit pressed for time with the holidays and everything, so uhhh I think it needs a lot of work. But hey, at least I got it done, and it's okay in my opinion!

And let's see, what else happened this year? Oh yeah,

Thank you for 200 fans!!!!!!

I never thought I'd have that many Newgrounds people interested in my art. I can't thank you enough for the nice things you guys comment on my stuff. It really makes my day, and sometimes it makes the really hard days not so bad! It's an honor to read what you guys think of the silly drawings I make. I've been trying return the love by commenting on other people's stuff to show them their work is important to me. I want to do more of that in 2024.

So, as for my other goals for 2024? I don't really know yet. Of course, I'm gonna keep working on improving at art! I want to get into animation, like I said. I also want to keep writing short stories and continue editing a novel I've been working on since last year. I've always wanted to publish a book, ever since I was a kid. It might be a pipe dream, but I want to keep working on that in 2024. And mostly, I want to get more involved in the community here, and my community IRL. I want to socialize more, and have more adventures going places. Hopefully traveling more too, like I did when I went to Philly!

Thanks so much for reading my long-ass recap, or skimming it haha!

I love you, Newgrounds ❤❤❤

See you in 2024!!