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!!

Thank you to everybody who wished me a happy birthday yesterday!

And an even bigger thanks to anyone who's made something for me for the day, too. You all made some pretty fantastic stuff (a lot of funny tree people, haha) and I adore each and every one of the pieces made.

And more importantly, thanks to those folks who stuck by me all this time. You're the real ones, and I'm glad I matter enough to you to stick by me.

Here's for more happy years to come.

560 days later, and I've gotten 100 people hit that there follow button.

Nice.

(stupid image made by @thegarbager619. also it features a char @spectacles1170 made.)

Anyways, yeah. It's been pretty good. I guess. Growth and activity around here has slackened a little, mostly for two reasons:

My art trades listings on the collab part of the site has not been getting as much responses as it used to, sadly. I can't exactly partake in an offer nobody is giving me.

Secondly, I'm working on a big project that takes up all of my time and resources, so little time for personal art either.

I'd like to take a moment to thank all of the people that I consider friends that stuck alongside me for the journey.

Y'know, real friends. As opposed to fake friends.

Especially the very wonderful new people I met on this platform, that decided to join up on my discord server.

Overall, yeah.

Thank you.

Okay, so what's up?

Well, ever since I've gotten my laptop back I've gotten literally 3 commissions from the same source that I've had to sort out. They all paid handsomely and came out pretty well, but they were requested to be private. Obviously I'm good with that. But I wasn't able to post any of it onto this or any site for obvious reasons.

And on the other end of things I've basically had a complete void of creativity to get along with Elequest matters. Or anything else really. All of it stems from one point of stress I've been having all year, but that's enough of that.

I've finally created something I can put onto this site. Soon. It's part of an art trade so I have to wait for the other person to finish. But rest assured that SOMETHING new is on the way... After these past two months of a wait.

One new graphics cable later, and I've got this thing back in action.

So now I can do things again!

Here's the first thing I doodled up on the very first day I got it back. Wonders.

I actually did this up as a joke on my Twitter. Something about wanting me and my art friends to joke about that one game that gets advertised on YouTube way too much.

Now, I can't promise when I'll get back into drawing anything again. But I do hope you'll all be looking forward to whatever does come next. Thanks for sticking with me!

Yeah, I had to send the thing to a repairshop. The screen display is all kinds of messed up.

So until it's fixed and we get it back, I'll be completely and unable to do anything art or Elequest related (not that I've been doing any of that lately anyway).

sucks massively but I can't work on anything creative when the screen is all wacky and distorted half the time.

I've been on this site for less than three months and I've already had the opportunity to collaborate and partake in seven whole art trades- that's wild! Honestly not used to having anyone approach me for them, haha. Back when I only used DA and stuff, I was the only one who approached for these inquiries.

Thank you to everyone who did do one with me! Certainly looking forward to any new faces that come my way and ask for one in the future. And for any returning faces too, in due time.

2021 has also allowed me to focus on 6 redraws and 1 whole new character (Cindis). Plus quite a bit of misc art and work out into Elequest. To be honest, on the creative side of things, this year is going pretty well for me so far.

Thanks for reading- have a pleasant day.

Hi, I'm Taurmega!

There's a slight chance you may have seen me on a site or two, whether it be on a random YouTube Video, in a Discord Server or somewhere else like Twitter in the past.

I'm an artist who draws in a very simple and cutesy style, using vectors to make something way on the cartoony side.

Also, I happen to dabble in Spritework. I've been drawing seriously since around 2015 or so, and I joined Newgrounds since I figured it'd be a neat new frontier that I could meet new folks on, and share my work on too.

I am also developing a game of my own in RPG Maker using my visual style fully, Elequest. That's mainly what the spritework goes into.

I don't know any ins or outs of Newgrounds at all (I'm pretty unfamiliar with it as a whole as a matter of fact) so bear with me if I act a little newbie-ishly strange.