I made it to 500 art pieces uploaded onto my NG gallery!

That's an insane number, glad to have gotten that far. This also means I'm halfway there to 1,000. So... let's hope the road to that one goes smoothly too.

Which one is your favourite of the 500?

Today I found out that one of the new Pals they revealed for Palworld yesterday resembles Gatha to such a suspicious degree that it's funny.

Who looks like this, if you don't remember:

So that's fun.

Whoaaaaaa!!!!!!!!

That's more than 4 so it's a lot.

Hope you guys enjoy the RPG when it comes out!! And glad you enjoy the art lol

WOW what a year. Overall better than the last, I think, in terms of art output.

Q1: Pretty formulaic, really. When Feb rolled around, I realised that it was the new year elsewhere, specifically for the Year of the Dragon. Following Gleeb's creation, I had to come up with a decent Dragon of my own, and thus Solera was born. Following that it was a couple more misc designs, such as that nice sand gal and a rather classy woman, and into March which had a lot more experimentation. At this point my 2024 goal was to expand my roster as much as I can with a lot of good designs. I'd say I did fairly well with that here, even none of them from Q1 were all that iconic later on.

Q2: Pretty good quarter in its own right! April started off basically identically to how Q1 was going, with the highlight probably being Princess Eyesore and her ridiculous existence. I also made Cel, who did ended up being much more relevant down the year and I like her very much. The most notable part of May was me working on stuff for @RadJon and @JimBagg, as well as the remake of Palo, which turned out absolutely wonderfully. After that, he next month was mostly just misc things with an emphasis on doing some Art Trades with @JimBagg and the funny cactus guy.

Q3: Behold, the busiest quarter of all! It started off with me entering Art Fight for the first time. it was... quite the roller coaster, honestly. For a bit I did feel a little down, feeling like my friends were leaving me out of the fun somewhat. Once I started making a lot of artwork and seeing some amazing pieces go my way, I started feeling better about it, especially towards the end, thanks to a certain friend helping me feel better about everything.

You should definitely see the best AF result I got though, it's pretty peak:

Immediately after an extremely busy July, I thought it would've been a great idea to immediately start a drawing challenge with Arecacian August! Why did I do that? Because I was frustrated with how the idea of anthro palm trees was something I was inherently associated with, with Arecacians being pretty peak, yet every time someone else does it, they're more successful. I took that frustration and made a whole bunch of new, themed Arecacians to really show my dominance in the anthro palm tree market.

It didn't make mine any more successful, but it DID make mine the best, which is what matters at the end of the day.

Aside from Arecacian August, I also made what might be my best piece of 2024 in general, which brought back Citra and made her a mainstay with me and my friends. Septermber, in comparison, was a bit of a break. Art output was slower (understandable so), but I managed to celebrate Ruby Day in time. Twice.

Q4: My best quarter, probably! I started it off EXTREMELY strong with the return of the Anti-Mute Project. There I made so many great instances of Rossy, with Chestssy being the one that I like most personally. During that very same October I also made Eria as well as Sharel during the same month, which were very strong designs in their own right. After that it was banger after banger, even going into December, with that remake of Rossy and Zam, one of my favs of the year. December was quite busy, didn't have too much time for myself as I wanted to make a lot of gift pieces for my friends, pretty much all of which I'm very happy with.

The only shaky part was probably the NG Secret Santa event, which... I wasn't a fan of this year, honestly. (I'm happy with my own piece I did for it, it's just the event itself that I didn't like.)

Overall?

A great year! So many great new designs, that it's nigh impossible to nail down a fav from em all.

The RPG is even almost finished. Hoping to get it done sometime early next year, look forward to it.

NG art pages of the character:

Don't think I remember doing anything like this before, but there's a first for everything lol

Also I really like the doodle of her here; it's cute and works nicely with all her features n stuff.

My page is here:

https://artfight.net/~Taurmega

you know what to do! if you're participating there, that is.

Hey, so I've been running into trouble affording musicians for the long-term for my project.

So if you enjoy seeing my works, consider making a commission!

I'm an absolutely tiny artist who gets screwed over on the daily everywhere, especially since I'm at a massive disadvantage by focusing on original content. So any little thing helps, even if it's just sharing around my info to places that might have people looking to hire.

Thank you.

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!