May the luck be with you maniac dude

They exist plenty. We've even had a few anti-learners in the mix.

They're just not the ones agonizing over their lack of progress. People that want to progress will progress (if they seek out and act on good advice, anyway.)

anyone know of good figure drawing instructors that aren't Glenn Vilppu or Steve Huston? I'm looking to re-learn that stuff and it's probably better to learn it from someone I haven't already learned it from before.

When comparing yourself to other artists, you should be fair to yourself by factoring in all the artists worse than you as well. I'm older than you and my art doesn't even come close to yours, but I try to keep in mind that there are probably some older than I am who are worse than I am (I hope...)

Herrow

It would be cool for each forum to have a lounge thread like this, generally based around the forum topic and good spot to find it if you don't have a particular idea for a thread and none of the active threads peak you interest, but with margin to talk about a lot more, since general is showing no sign of coming back anytime remotely soon

true true, and the supporter forum is still alive, but i got no money for the supporter forum :(

I wonder if shadiversity still thinks hes an artist

Virgiversity vs Chazza

What have y'all's been up to?

I've been m.i.a for a bit. Any happenings?

Making a sandwich while watching a clip of bucciarati licking Goirno

The usual

The taste of a LIAR!

I'm probably gonna still change some stuff about it, but what do you guys think?

LMAO didn't expect someone will get that obscure reference

Looks nice really does give off those old gameboy vibes :)

Something’s been floating around my head for a while now.

How do you guys feel about your own sociability here on Newgrounds?

To me, I frequently feel like I’m socializing too little and too much here all at the same time: no clue if I should take one direction or another. Am I alone on this?

Ehh, I used to be a lot more social here, but things started to feel kinda, not "dead" but just not as active as it once was. Familiar faces stopped posting as much, and I haven't seen as many fun events as in the past. That combined with getting increasingly busy made me only log in to check for happenings and then leave.

So idk really.

Man, I really wanna do something to encourage more traffic here; but for now, I’m too busy building up a lot of things to do so.

I've seen you working on your project every now and then.

I liked the logos and concept art. Hopefully all goes well with it.

I keep forgetting to browse the forums

Thank you! I’m thinking about dipping my toes a bit more on other places; however, there are things about this site that I greatly prefer over any other social media site. I’m such a sucker for this place, to be honest!

Imo, maybe some stars/small dots in the sky might make the top half feel less empty. Also, a slight gradient or alternating color scheme for the darkness instead of just black would go hard as hell.

Good work!

Anybody watch that new Dandadan episode? That shit broke me so hard, I instinctively started drawing one of the episode’s best scenes and finished it in one sitting last night (not including some minor touch-ups in the morning).

If someone who sees this hasn’t watched it, I highly recommend it. It is the best adaptation I could hope for.

whats new here

Is there anyone who draws the torso first when it comes to drawing characters, because I do.

usually head, sometimes torso, rarely anything else

I can talk easily to people on here, which is really good! And it makes me so happy to see people make fan art of my characters. I wish I got more comments, though I'm a sketchbook artist who doesn't have all the time in the world to colour so unfortunately I don't get much traction. I don't care for fame but I do want an audience and when I get one / I am heard more I think I'll have a second home and I'll be really sociable. I don't really work in friend groups too easily if 'fitting in' is a factor but I really do feel like I can give so much advice here and it makes me smile getting to give it.

On a seperate note, hi everyone! I said I'd only come back once I figured out my fundamentals, and I'm getting the hang of it. I'm practicing my new style for drawing women and I'm going to do what I do for men as I am with some slight changes so that the fundamentals allow me to have better dimensions / sketches from different angles. I'm not gonna do perspective and landscaping just yet and I'll only do digital when I am finally consistent and want to do commissions (so maybe late next year). I'm currently working on a new character sheet for my self-insert, would it be OK if I made a post where I uploaded the character sheet and asked people to DMC if I DMC'd back for them? Just asking since I'm unsure if it would count as spam.

It's time I accepted if I want to someday in the future, collaborate with other animators, I need to do animation constantly. So any distractions like working on a video game or a comic book, needs to be forgotten about. Oh well, it was fun while it lasted.