Since April 13th this year, I’ve been on Newgrounds for 10 years.

It’s been a wild time, and I thought it might be fun to recount and reflect on the years and how I got to where I am today within NG and with my art <3

Note: for the years written, the April of that year is the start of that time period.

Before Newgrounds:

I was just a kid who was always looking at stuff all over the internet. I usually was playing Minecraft with my friends after school, and going to see their dog when not. It was the age of Nintendo DS and Wii. I did some writing back then and had even tried to write a longer story. My grandmother had given my sibling and I art supplies, sketchbooks, colored pencils… our first art supplies.

My sketches were very crude in the year of 2013, and some of the best art pieces I made were actually in my art classes in school alongside a wolf I drew from a reference for my grandmother’s birthday.

In October or November of 2013 I started watching speed paint videos online, I loved the colors and shading, the lighting, everything! At that time, the only art program I knew how to use was GIMP (which is what was used for my first illustration here on NG). I really got into it, making small drawings for a Christmas card that year and designing my birthday invite early 2014.

I kind of kept to myself and didn’t post anywhere, my family knew about my illustrations, and I worked with a lot of pencil and drawing dragons in school. People knew I could draw, and I was pretty ok at it.

Joining Newgrounds:

In April 2014, I had been watching Markiplier, Jacksepticeye, y’know, whatever a little kid would watch at that time. 

Markiplier had been playing I think “There is no Game” or something similar. There was a link to the Newgrounds game, and I thought it would be fun to play it for myself.

I ended up checking out more of the website and found “Free Coins!!!” by @Denisowator 

I got all but the final medal, and didn’t want to restart my journey, so I created an account.

The First Year!

Newgrounds was a tad alive and I met two Newgroundsers that I stayed friends with for about the first two years ish of my time here. I posted a few drawings. Playing with pixel art, and inspired by my friends. Newgrounds was still a background thing. I did a bunch of reviews and playing back then, and I would chill with some folks in old Chatzy chat rooms, before Discord existed.

Year 2 (2015):

I started to already have Newgrounds pride. Hah, I started learning a bunch about Castle Crashers and the site history. I took part in a secret Santa that year, and was chillin.

I switched over to Krita that year after hearing about it for the first time, and I have never gone back.

Maybe this is when I started being on Discord? I forgot.

It was that summer I got an older drawing tablet, AIPTEK brand, from my grandmother, who had also done digital art in the early days of Corel Paint. [My father still has the paint can packaging for Corel at the time in his office].

Year 3 (2016):

Quite a bit more notable! It was the first Pixel Day and I submitted. I ended up getting scouted that day, and I was ecstatic! I started posting more, and drawing still took me a long time, and I didn’t do a lot of full illustrations. (The Jester was drawn on a borrowed laptop, my normal computer wasn’t the best)

I also took part of Pico Day that year and started the slippery slope of drawing metal and robots, I did not do anything with robotics at the time, but did have a small interest in the back of my mind that wasn’t really given any room to breathe at the time. I had gone to a summer camp that was to teach coding, and when they showed us Scratch, I was a bit disappointed since I felt ready for more. 

I didn’t touch coding again until highschool.

My old drawing tablet was no longer compatible with my new (hand me down) laptop and I got my first Wacom tablet. I still use it to this day and prefer it over my Huion Screen tablet :P 

Year 4 (2017):

And this is when I joined my highschool robotics team, as visible from my Pixel Day drawing.

I started to make a promise to myself to try to post more illustrations than the previous year..

I can start to see my move towards my focus on glow and reflections this year with “An Eye for an Eye”

I also had met with a few Newgroundsers in person that year at Ambler Theater:

@PhantomArcade had lost a bet/dare to @moawling and borrowed my dad’s glasses to complete it. 

I didn’t have a smart phone at the time, and used my dad’s to show @Ozone and @FuShark some of my drawings.

Also, @JohnnyUtah, it took me FOREVER to realize you were there too. I had a memory of Tom talking to *someone* before the screening about their cartoon being shown first, and then like two years later I figured it out! [My memory might be wrong]

I hadn’t seen so many people passionate about what they were doing before and it was inspiring to see everyone just excited and having fun. Heh, it was then that I felt as if I belonged. 

It’s when I started doing more and talking to more people on the site. These were just people doing their thing, and it was just exciting that I was close enough to take part of Newgrounds in person.

Year 5 (2018):

I went to the Revolutions bowling meetup and met @IvanAlmighty and many others! 

@Temariix made a Steve birthday cake, and @BrandyBuizel gave me a code to his game.

At the time, supporter status was being a lot more public as an option and I thought the painting of Tom that was used for the banner ad was a bit funny. I made a TomFulp mask to wear out of tape and random ribbon from my basement. I think @Krinkels still has the mask.

It was the first time meeting @Luis in person, and it was just wild when everyone combined the tables to make an extremely long table. Everyone was so chill, it felt like a family reunion.

I got a lot better technically in drawing that year and took part in my first animation jam!

I had tried to work on it as much as I could during the summer course I was taking that year :) 

https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/714141 

That August is when Hotbun was founded as a Discord server. I still kind of am hazy on how I joined.

BUT, Hotbun was joined with the faces of folks like @Snackers @HenryEYES @MatthewLopz (frog) @Oddlem, @irri @NickConter @Cymbourine @Carmet @littlbox …

ok, everyone who is in this:

In the fall is when I started writing the Telebuddies in my Cinema class where we edited videos together. I recently found an old report card showing I got a 99 in the class. It was my favorite, and as soon as I started to learn screenwriting, I was starting to write animation scripts (a lot of which are still on my drive)

This was also the first year of Tankmas! We originally called it “Christmas ADVENTure” made by @ninjamuffin99 and a bunch of other Hotbun folks.

It was so nice to be part of a larger collab, and I did some pixel art for Tankmas which led me to do more things with it in the future as one of the sprite artists.

And… Kind of looking back, now I realize that the beginning of Hotbun coincided with when I was starting to study for the SAT (college testing for US folks) and prepare for applying to colleges.

I started getting busy with school, robotics, and art all the same time. 

I’m getting a bit ahead of myself in reflection, but something that was really hard for me as a Senior in Highschool, and all through my time in college is that I could never really be as active as I wanted with Newgrounds. I had a great time in Hotbun right as it started, and everything after that kind of fell short I guess because I’ve been busy since. It just kind of sucks looking back, but also just seeing how soon after I got busy with school work after Hotbun started just makes me a bit easier on myself. It was a bit of bad timing for me, and I was more of a satellite member since that’s all I could do with the time I had.

Because of how things are with the anniversary in April, in the beginning of 2019, I had actually switched robotics teams, and it was my first season with them. The folks were a lot nicer than my previous team, but as I mentioned with Hotbun, time wasn’t really on my side with how things lined up. I was also about a half hour away from the robotics lab, couldn’t drive, and mainly did their graphic design items when I wasn’t doing homework in the lab.

I have my Art tab open on NG while writing this, and I can immediately pick out the drawings related to the situation. That’s why I mention it. But speaking on the timing of the anniversary dates…

Year 6 (2019):

EXACTLY on April 13th in 2019, five years from the day I joined Newgrounds, I was in a competition which I won 1st for Graphic Design, which was just a great way to celebrate, and even if no one else knew what I was talking about, I was happy for how far I had come. I was able to go national for it, didn’t get far, but had a lot of fun :) 

As I went into my senior year of highschool, I took some classes at the local community college. I enjoyed my programming course a lot and was in high spirits a lot of the time. I befriended the folks who worked at the Makerspace and enjoyed Beat Saber competitions with other students I befriended. I even met a gallery owner who liked my work as I was editing some of my digital pieces.

I vibed in the library studying for testing and enjoyed looking out the windows just to see the rest of campus thriving.

I started planning around doing my first art table in April 2020, and started reaching out to printing places and using the button maker at the makerspace. I was really excited to do my first one.

I returned back to my highschool for the final courses I had to do. Cooking, Chemistry, Anatomy and Physiology, and Public Speaking.

I got free lunches from the cooking class at times, and Chemistry was like solving puzzles. At the time I had been studying a lot more about previous pandemics and we starting to talk about a new virus showing up on the other side of the globe in my Anatomy course. I took this topic and gave a speech in Public Speaking giving my classmates more details about the virus since we all knew about it. 

A week or so later, my anatomy and physiology teacher looked at all of us during class and said something along the lines of “I don’t want to talk about this everyday, but this is important”. I don’t need to say what happened after that.

Year 7 (2020)

It was a bit tough especially for the first month or so, we had an extra guest and two extra cats in the house. All events were canceled, and everyone was stuck in place.

On the 7th year Anniversary I decided it would be a good day to accept my admission to college. We got sent a lot of items to celebrate from the school, but being stuck inside and having a lot of my competition plans canceled made everything fall flat on me.

Just some more documentation: This was my Shelter in Place jam WIP. I think it speaks a bit more to the rest of everything and the overall vibe of 2020.

I might finish this, but let’s leave Covid behind for a bit eh?

Year 8 (2021)

Oh, FLUFF, we’re going flip through this one a bit quickly actually. (Some uni stuff went on)

Summer animation jam with @BuhlBoy (I got to do the Backgrounds, which was fun!)

I was also the art director for Tankmas 2021!!! I stayed up late so many nights building and pushing the game to Newgrounds with the final updates. All the times I had designed the tree in the previous years added up. @Karlestonchew and @MrShmoods were on deck helping me with designs ♥️

I may complain about the work for Tankmas, but I loved every second of it.

Year 9 (2022)

I went to @PsychoGoldfish ‘s place to vibes with a bunch of others and celebrate Pico Day in person! (Heh, finally)

@Jacob @BuhlBoy @Xinxinix and myself had taken a road trip from Kansas City Missouri all the way to Denver Colorado for it. 

With everyone, we threw paper [redacted]es across the table at a local pizza place, and during the day of the BBQ, we got Ice Cream from this random neighbor of PsychoGoldfish’s.

Funny Aside: I had been calling PsychoGoldfish “Psycho” in person for a bit, probably scared a few folks, just a funny thing. Not as bad as trying to figure out whether or not to call @ProfessorDunce “Professor” or “Dunce” when we met in the winter.

In between robotics courses, which I didn’t realize I was speedrunning and doing a hell year, I went to see @ChutneyGlaze and @MaidenChynna for their wedding. I got to meet the amazing and cool @chimp-shrimp and @Syrupmasterz as well as we partied in a dinosaur museum.

(This is a drawing of all the folks I was able to meet in 2022):

Year 10 (2023)

At midnight going into the 10th yeah, I was at a bar in Taiwan christening the new jacket I had gotten in honor of 9 years passed. I knew I was in the final run of things and made a lot of progress for this year.

On my way back to the states, I stopped by Canada and visited in again with @Syrupmasterz and did a three hour jam to make this:

I stopped by TooManyGames during the summer hosted by @Cortat!

(I got to meet all of you lovely folks and got an incredible number of signatures on my flag!)

I had to leave the Monday after TMG to go back to college for work and otherwise. I was torn and it was hard to leave after meeting so many people that the pandemic delayed. 

But this kind of summarizes how I felt after:

@Droid it always kind of warms my heart to see you liked the song <3

I did two of the shots in the Summer Fest 2023 Opening directed by @Slimygoo 

I completed one of shorts I had started:

And @DannyGoodShirt had me do the thumbnail for Dr. Good’s Operating Theater, which was so wild to see my art on the FP for the promo

The Promo:

The Collab:

I was also commissioned for the first time for animation work, which was the Green World Trailer on my page. I learned very quickly my process and worked through the stress of final classes while also finishing it. 

ALSO, HOLY FLUFF! I successfully ran a Kickstarter for the Astro Lizard Enamel pins!

It was a busy year.

And finally:

Going into Year 11

I’m already two months in, and it’s going well! 

As a cap to the 10 years, @squidly and I ran the Boston Meetup, and had a good time with everyone running around Chinatown, and overtaking a local taco place. It was fun trying to weave through the rain.

For projects: While the status on Telebuddies and Regalia is good but slow, Rick’s Diner Issue one will have a few of the first few pages ready and out by Mid August! I’ve been having a lot of fun with the bots at the diner.

I’m in the middle of lining one of the pages.

And a lot of you saw me at Pico Day in New Jersey! I was running around making sure everyone was doing ok thought for the most part.

The after party was a bit more chill when @GeoKureli, Squid, and I went to an aquarium nearby :)

Anyway, after the end of the main Pico Day event, the flag was covered in signatures. So fittingly, I gave it to @TomFulp to hang up in the office:

(@PsychoGoldfish sent this me to after TMG this year)

And there’s still more to go this year! I’m excited.

Since I graduated, I have been reflecting on a lot of things, making changes, and planning. I’m just really glad that university is over. A bunch of my friends and folks who talk to me about my experience know I didn’t have a great time. It was stressful due to academics, personal life, and things I couldn’t really control. I had to just wait things out.

I am still waiting a bit, with the end of one of my plans in sight, but I’m still here eh?

As I mentioned in the 2018 portion about Hotbun, it was just bad timing for me. This is a theme amongst everything. Younger me would be impressed by everything we’ve done, but I still know there’s so much we lost over those years too. Bittersweet, and I’m still working through things.

Some of my solutions are coming to fruition, and helping me go forward stronger in this eleventh year, and for that, I’m happy.

Thank you all who have talked to me and inspired me through these years. Thank you all for being awesome friends and overall just cool people. I look up to a bunch of ya’ll, and I know some of you look up to me as well. We’ll keep building each other up.

So let’s take a cheer to the past ten years, and for the eleventh, the one to come.

With all the best,

-TheDyingSun

Been meaning to do a post Boston meet up, tdlr: Squirrel, Tacos, Cash only, Comics, and Water

In other news, I'm graduating college on time! Bout to get that BS in Robotics Engineering, with a minor in, and you guessed it: Game Development lol.

Also 10 year anniversary stuff. The enamel pins came in :)

There's also a lot more to talk about now that summer is here again.

Anyway...

Talk to ya'll again soon!

Best,

-TDS

Day of notes:

2. We're ending a little early today as of 5:30 pm

1. I'll be checking Discord and NG DMs frequently if you need me

My discord is The_Dying_Sun

Eyo!!!

Coming back from PAX got me hyped and SO, on April 13th I’ll be hosting a meet up in Boston with @Squidly in the afternoon.

Currently you have:

@Squidly, @migmoog, @Jaster, @nokoi, @GunTurtle, @Kzgamer, @woundoboi, @Sykley, a few of my uni friends, and myself, and a few tentatives!

THE PLAN:

We meet at the Frog Pond in the Boston Commons at Noon.

We’ll have the NG Flag, so we should be able to be found easily. We’re going to have a few picnic blankets set up to do some drawing and vibing until 2 pm.

At 2 we’ll head off to Chinatown to have lunch at a hot pot place.

After Lunch we’ll check out the rest of Chinatown (I’ve been told they have some awesome bakeries by both Squidly, and some of my uni buddies)

After a while we’ll head down Newbury Street to visit the OG Newbury Comics Store.

By 7 pm we’ll be ending off our night at King’s Dining & Entertainment right next to the Newbury Comics.

Rain Plans: 

Meet at South Station

Newbury Comic will be the one near Faneuil Hall.

King’s will be the one on the bay.

Squidly and I will be bringing stickers to give out.

So let us know if you’re coming and we’ll add you to the list!

Best,

-TheDyingSun

Heya!

Just wanted to check in and give an update since it's been a while.

Music!!!

Last night I released two of the songs I had been storing for a while. I just needed a few solid hours to look them over:

Flower Forest | An Experimental Piece of weird sounds stemming from a weird night

A Party Without Their Majesty | Their Majesty Listens to their party from afar

Small Stuff

A Game:

[Also kind of music but] I also have a song loop I can release probably in a bit. Over the past 8 weeks, I made a game! It was with a group for a class and we really put our heart into it! It's a bit buggy and some of the drawings I did for it are missing, we want to post it up on Itch soon, and I'll let ya'll know when we do!

A Commission:

The most recent animation I did was for a client and is under my movie tab. It's a trailer for a book and I had a bunch of fun working on it! I admittedly went a bit overboard with the transitions, but they look awesome for the time I had.

I will also double check with the commissioner, but I wanted to show a lot of the behind-the-scenes as wrangling with Blender and Grease pencil was a wild time.

A Comic:

Honestly, now the comic.

Rick's Diner has been going well with drafts on the first two pages being released last week on my discord server. [If you join, I'll usually add you to the rest of the server within a day :) ]

I post updates there weekly on it along some sketches that aren't usually posted immediately anywhere else.

A Short Film

For my capstone project at school right now, I'm working on making the storyboard/storyreel for a short film. This is where Blep (the lizard guy!) shows up again.

So in about 6 weeks, the base of that will be done, I would say hopefully, but, uh, it needs to be done so I can graduate lol.

10th Year Anniversary

April 13th 2014 is when I joined NG, and holy fluff that is coming up soon.

I'm also aware that this is the Homestuck day.

Otherwise, I thought I would have something ready or special for it. I don't know yet. Maybe a recap of everything? I do plan to do something with my friends that day, unsure.

Just... wow, 10 years ya know?

If you have any thoughts or anything you want to see from under the hood of the work I do, let me know! I love showing my tech and things I learned along the way!

There's also a lot of things that didn't make it through the years, with only 4 major projects that I plan to follow through after college.

Anyway, just a lot to sit with I guess. I'm happy with what I've done in that time, and my art is only part of that eh?

Anyway,

Touch Grass,

DRINK WATER,

Best,

-TDS

Heya ya'll!

Over the past weeks I started setting up a Discord Server

I have been struggling to feel comfortable posting on my Twitter or Instagram in the ways I'd want (and have even struggled with some of my news posts on here), so I set up a server for more updates and sketches that I might not share or additional info no usually on my posts. (I'm also going to be using for a lot more updates on projects, i.e. Rick's Diner and others lol)

SO, if you're interested, when you join you'll see that you're just in a landing channel. Myself or one of my friends will give you a role to join the rest of the server and then you'll be all set!

It's also at the top of the stack of everything, and I love talking to ya'll and seeing what's up! Just I've only been able to check Discord consistently.

Cheers, and hope to see ya'll there!

Best,

-TDS

The Server Link lol

P.S. HOLY FLUFF I FORGOT

I also have a Discord Bot that's based off of

Ponyboy running on the server as well!

Just school's been hard at me.

How it's going for ya'll?

Heya everyone! I released a Kickstarter earlier this week!

I've been working on this little fella since February of this and have been able to get a physical sample of it going.

I'm running a Kickstarter to fund the initial run of pins.

The pin glows in the dark and has an iridescent plating and locking backs.

More details about shipping and everything else I've done for them is on the Kickstarter page for em'.

So what are you waiting for?

Check it out and grab a pin :3

Thank you!

-TDS

Happy Robot Day Everyone and Happy Summer Fest!

For Robot Day this year, I finish Robot New Year's a little toon started back in late 2021:

Besides the info in it's description about applying stuff from class I wanted to talk a bit more about some reflections and what's going to happen moving forward.

This took a long time since I was weaving in between robotics courses and large school projects to get this done, and I'm just happy to have something out there y'know?

And thank you to everyone who has reviewed it, given me suggestions, and those who I owe high-fives to! The feedback has been amazingly helpful and I'm already starting to implement what I learned from this project to work on future ones. I think as I said earlier this year in a news post, this was kind of a precursor project to larger ones to get the idea of the entire process again, and I'm got the itch to animate again, even as classes for school are starting back up. And kind of a funny reminder: Yup! I'm a robotics engineering student who draws/animates robots :)

I also learned that OpenToonz, which Robot New Year's was made entirely in, is not robust enough for my needs. During my work for the Summerfest opening, I did one of my shots in OpenToonz, and the other with Blender's Grease Pencil. OpenToonz was for shot 19, and it good, but limiting in the amount of colored lines I could use on one layer for lining (it would slow down both my laptop and workstation when trying to erase).

Grease Pencil ran smoother on both of my computers, and even was less demanding on my laptop. So I'm going to be moving to Grease Pencil for now. Switching back and forth between edit and draw mode is a bit of a pain, and not being able to erase fills was also a tad annoying, but that's only after about a month of work with it. I'll get better as I go along.

And Happy Summer Fest! As I mentioned a tad earlier I helped in the Summerfest Opening and all the animators did an amazing job! Check it out!

@TheExtreamH annoyed @Syrupmasterz and I to join, so we did and kept up with each other during production. The other animators were also such a pleasure to talk and worth with :)

@RobC3 and I had to coordinate the colors and outfits for Steve and Captain, and they did and amazing job making the final edits to balance the contrast on the outfits.

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In the meantime, I'm getting back to work on things, and I got to meet a lot of ya'll at Too Many Games. I wanted to do a post about that, but er, to say the least, it was awesome to meet you all! Some of you again, and it was awesome to hear about all the projects you all are up to :) I love all of you and the work you all are doing is amazing. Ya'll mean the world to me <3

Take care and Happy Robot Day!

Best,

-TheDyingSun

I need to do a write up of everything since February.

In the meantime. How are the vibes?

-TDS

Hello Everyone!

After posting my New Year’s Update, I felt as if it was heavily lacking as to what I’m actually working on and how somethings I haven’t talked about recently have been going.

The Big Four:

I was doing some reflection, and found that there were mainly four projects that are *live* right now. Each of them receive almost weekly work, even if it’s small:

“Life of the Beyond”:

So, I was at a local arts center where an artist was showing some of their work before a play. I got the contact info of one of the managers… and now I’m doing a gallery showing for about one and a half weeks from late August to Early September.

I’m planning on having an opening and or closing during the show, and wanted to have an open invitation to everyone here on NG :)

I’m still working out the details since I’m focusing on travel details for school, but it’s going to be a wild time.

This is one of my priority projects at the moment, since there’s so much planning and a lot of physical work I have to do. It’s going to be fun, but a lot of work. I’ll provide more updates when I can.

Rick’s Diner

This is a comic that has been floating around for a bit and only recently came to light.

It spawned as a branch off of the now retired “Afterocalypse” idea.

I’ve been doing mostly writing and pen tests of the characters, and so far the writing has been pretty smooth.

That’s about it, you’ll see a lot more drawings with a few of the character from this (like the most recent), and it’s been a fun overarching project behind the scenes.

Robot New Year’s

This is a short cartoon that I started work on late December 2021, y’know, for New Year’s. It’s been a testing board for my animation process and working with Opentoonz to the fullest.

Back in December of 2021, I had just finished a class with a professor to work on the storyboard for Telebuddies. The class went ok. It was a tough time for everyone on campus, but I learned a lot about breaking up animation shots and sequences.

The animation is overall at about 60% completion. Mainly because I’ve been stuck in robotics laboratories all of last year.

I consider finishing this a prerequisite to finishing Telebuddies EP 1. Which is another reason why it’s been delayed a long time. My life also changed a lot since 2018 (which was when the original script was written) and the Telebuddies changed a lot to reflect that.

Robot New Year’s is planned to be finished before the end of summer, since it’s just a lot of grinding left.

Leech Band Pins:

I’ve been hinting at it on my Twitter here and there about a pin set that I’ve been working on getting manufactured. It’s a 4 pin set that’s pretty big and which I wore on my backpack for a good amount of time.

I worked with a manufacturer that I liked their quality and sent out a final request for more sets, and after about 5 sets being distributed among friends… we found issues. My friends and I have been doing testing and working to push what I initially ordered and I’ve been getting more advice from other artists.

At the time of writing, I’m getting samples from a different company and we’ll be doing testing and I will be trying to break them and throwing them half across a campus building to see how things hold up.

I’ll give updates when the pins are on full release. I won’t be talking about them much otherwise because it’s mostly emailing and invoices to deal with this project at the moment.

This is slated to be finished by end of summer this year, taking into consideration I won’t be anywhere near my normal set up for two months and can’t receive packages “normally”.

(I’m also helping some folks on campus with a game, not important to this list for detail, but important for completeness :) )

Also In Queue:

Telebuddies (has a pending pre req of Robot New Year’s)

Resetting up my Etsy (has a pending pre req of the Leech Band Pins)

Resetting up my Kofi (pending pre req of me finding time)

Dead:

Patreon:

So, my Patreon is pretty much dead at the moment. Most of the stuff that’s available right now is about it, my Patreon is now pretty much similar to my Kofi in the sense that, if you want to send me money… cool! I can’t really give anything back besides a digital high five. It might change at the end of the year, but I can’t see that far ahead. We’ll see together.

Reflections:

Something that I’ve learned from the past year and I’m still working on is mostly time management and being honest with myself on how much time I have and can spend. I’m very used to having multiple projects at once, but each with differing commitment timelines. The pins, for example, are low on time and work I need to actively do, and fits in well. However, larger art projects like Robot New Year, takes time I have to set aside.

So, I guess it’s best for me to reiterate what I’m doing is what I like to do, and drawing these characters in the margins of my notebooks has been getting me through college. And it’s been a repeating thing, but I’m sometimes scared to branch out in art and just do silly drawings that aren’t anything “serious” when I want to do drawings that are just… me. It’s very much a trying to maintain a sense of “professionalism”, but what’s illustration without telling the story you want?

I know which drawings are ones where I just kind of let myself relax and draw because I smile remembering the hours I spent working on them.

I want to do more of that as I did we a few of my recent illustrations.

Even as someone who draws robots a lot, I want to make drawings are more.. human...

And man, humans are weird.

-TheDyingSun