Sort of.

This one has alt palettes now.

Here's a crunchy embed of them, though full clarity is in the original image as always:

Roughly a year and a half later, and I made it to 200.

That's a big number...

Anyways, thanks to anyone who followed and sees what I do.

It's very nice that I got this far despite my stubborn approach to my particular content; sticking to ORIGINAL stuff with basically no fan-art whatsoever.

It completely works against me, but I wouldn't really have it any other way tbh.

There's plenty of '24 left, and I've still got a game to release, so look forward to it...

Thanks for hitting that follow button lol

With the posting of Iris here, https://www.newgrounds.com/art/view/taurmega/iris-vitria

I made it to 300 NG art posts. Just in time for the new year, pretty much.

The big 3, very cool. Art quality's still going strong and it's on the rise. It's also interesting to think about; 300 entire pieces up on here!

In any case, let's hope that 2024 will bring forth some great new art (and memories) going forward. With Iris it's certainly a very good start for sure.

That's all for now, thanks for following!

It's that time of the year again, so let's get right to it!

Q1: it's the birth of Gleeb. Need I say more?

In all seriousness, it was when I was starting to really get back into art and having some nice ideas. You can see this by me making Gleeb, making Q and all of the Primal / Parallel variants of the enemies. That was fun! So was making the stuff that followed in Feb and March, with the latter having the required annual @Radjon art trade. In Q1 I also started messing around with the OC plaza which I guess kept my skills in shape.

Q2: Hmm... This one is interesting because there's some very big highs but overall art output has been a little low. You can tell this was when I was starting to work on my project a LOT more, as there wasn't too many arts to put on here.

That being said, we have an updated Gigabelle and the Mummy lady, who turned out FANTASTICALLY. So it's not like this was a poor month or anything, I was just busy with the important junk.

Q3: The birth of the gothdolls! Funnily enough the rest of July was pretty slow and was also me working on the project, but those funny dolls have become very near and dear to me indeed. August was when I actually started becoming pals with the funny cactus guy, having traded with him and me making Marbelle. Also the funny pink shark, who some people seem to simp a lot for lol

Q4: Absolutely FULL of new chars! Princess Scary, the mineral princess and a lot of other things. I slowed down on the project a little (I was cleaning up the enemy sprites that were missing I guess!) but overall I'm super proud of all of these new designs. Also this doesn't show anything I'm making for Christmas, so no secret santa spoilers of any kind for NG or my server (or any other special things I might be making for the day ;) )

So overall? Pretty good year for art output! I made some of my best new OCs while making a lot of progress on my project, so... mission accomplished!! Great year!!

Let's hope 2024 can be even better!

What do you think of my work this year? Lemme know whatcha think, and if there was any highlights n stuff.

Had a really, really bad night on the 15th. Now I don't really make note of things like this, but on the night of the 17th I had a horrible system crash. Which kinda kicked me while I was down.

In short: I lost all progress of a new character I was working on that night.

As well as some assets for attack animations on the game.

Yeah, I was (and still am) pretty devastated by that.

Can't wait for November. It's gonna be a pretty good and. interesting month!

It's when I'm gonna start organising the Secret Santa (far ahead of time) that my own Discord server is gonna have with itself.

It's very fun to organise.

That and it's also the month when my birthday is. Which is always great.

Not only that but I'll hopefully be seeing a soundtrack for my game finally. Speaking of which, it's going good! I've been working on it this whole time and I've been knocking things off on the checklist of things left to do!

Just sharing some thoughts before sleeping lol, thanks for reading.

Wow, that's a pretty big number!

I'd have made it here way, way sooner but I'm actually working on something pretty big that's basically taking up all my time and attention. And it probably still will for a while, so don't expect too many new art posts outside of the rare Trade and new OC or something.

That said, thank you to everyone who's been checking out my artworks! Hope you enjoy what I've got coming up, when you get to see it.

Have a noish dayy.

https://drawme.share-on.me/OQUr3DLxsU

Here ya go.

For anyone who's willing to actually do this thing, massive thanks to ya!

And I guess a general update too, to what's up...

Been working hard on my project! Working on items currently, but I will say it's going pretty good so far. Not much of the progress is public, but you can still see a lot of it in my server. After this and that it'll be time for some private build testing which is exciting.

It's time consuming but let's hope it'll be worth it!

I've been refraining from mentioning it until now, but for anyone who's following me (and honestly anyone who's reading this), you probably should know that the person who made the game isn't a nice guy. Like, at all.

Stuff has finally surfaced around the 'net about what's been up in that person's discord server, and the kind of things they were doing and promoting.

I don't exactly want to go into detail; you can find that out for yourself if you look hard enough (rest assured, it's evidence that does indeed exist, so this isn't baseless); I'm just writing this to let anyone be aware right now: probably not the wisest idea to support that game's creator.

I never did make a post on this site for particular for '21, but that's okay! Anyways, here's my summary image for '22. I guess I can go talk about it:

Q1: Honestly there isn't much to say about the start of the year. It was kinda me doing concepts for Subversia, with me dipping my toes into a couple things until around March or so, where I started to get into high gear with even more Subversia stuff like enemies and such. I was dedicating myself to it basically.

Q2:

This was when I started to get really busy. It's not immediately visible here but I was effectively working nonstop on Subversia media for my University, making map mockups after map mockups. In fact, April was effectively solely that plus some misc arts for others!

As for other notable bits, there's obviously this piece I made which stands out among the big 2 of the year: https://www.newgrounds.com/art/view/taurmega/hazardous-machinery

And by that, I mean it's when I tried extremely hard to make something very good among all my work up until that point. Unfortunately the fruits of my labour was not proportional to the quality of the piece nor my effort, but it's an achievement all the same.

June also brought us Uroboros AND important boss designs for 100r, the project I'm currently active in developing. Uroboros in particular became quite iconic among my friend group, which is great.

Q3: I believe this was the period of time where I was wrapping up all my Uni work, as well as me experimenting as I wished for ideas and the like for 100r. Some new designs here and there, like the Kitty character or the Assassin.

Obviously there's the 2nd of the big 2 with what I did for Madness Day: https://www.newgrounds.com/art/view/taurmega/the-many-faces-of-your-origins-madnessday-2022

I'll be honest... I'm disappointed with this one. Not because of its quality but because this released with such little fanfare. I was actually kinda convinced that the piece would do abundantly well, but... it kinda flew over everybody's heads. And that's really unfortunate because I basically did kinda put everything into this. Then again that's basically the story of my whole art career, heh.

Q4: This one is interesting because it's basically when I became free from Uni stuff and when I truly started to focus on my work on 100r, especially kicking into high gear at around November or so? But mostly it was me getting adjusted to working on my own thing again. Too many things I was up to, to really give a good summary. Take it from me though; Q4 was a good 3 months of work.

Overall thoughts... We'll have to see how it develops from here. But personally I'm looking forward to seeing what '23 brings for us. I want to work on my project much more!

And frankly I'm just glad I had a full bit of art to show this time around, and that I didn't have to show any blank squares explaining that I didn't have anything else to show.

Thanks for reading, and thanks for sticking by me in 2022. I'll see you in 2023, hopefully with even more artwork that'll really impress ya!!

Seeya there! Happy new year!!