October has come and gone already, and now it's November! If you're a citizen of the United States like me, please make a plan to vote in the upcoming presidential election! Voting is always important! Please make sure to use your voice and make a plan to vote this Tuesday the 5th! Double check that you know where your polling place is, and the hours it's operating! Double check with your job to make sure you have time to go vote if you're planning on voting during work hours! Use your voice! VOTE VOTE VOTE! 🇺🇸

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🎃 HAPPY HALLOWEEN EVERYBODY! 🎃

HAPPY SPOOKY SEASON EVERYONE!!!

On this day in 1995, I was born!

I haven't really mentioned it here on NG yet, but I'm an artist with Epilepsy! Let's talk about it!

I've had epilepsy my entire life, and it impacts how I experience everything around me. It affects basically all aspects of my life, and I take medication for it. I have no idea what it's like to live without it, it's just what's normal to me. What does this have to do with my art and why am I bringing it up? Because once in a while I get asked (mostly on tumblr) if having epilepsy impacts how I make my art/being an artist. Nothing wrong with being curious, so I always answer honestly!

To put it simply, YES! My epilepsy DOES impact how I draw, use, and apply color! I'd like to think of my art style as being sensory friendly, and something of a sweet spot between being pastel and primarily colorful. (Or something like that?) I’m not drawing/rendering with the sole-intention of being “anti-eye-strain,” it’s sort of my default because of having epilepsy myself.

While I’m drawing, coloring, and building the drawing from the ground up, I use a lot of thin lines, lighter/de-saturated colors, low contrast, and rounded shape edges. After all, I’m going to be looking at the piece for a long time throughout the drawing/rendering process. I gotta' be able to work with it comfortably! It comes down to the question “why spend so much time/effort making something if I can’t even look at it comfortably?” With all that factoring in, my art style became what it is today!

It almost sounds pretty obvious when it’s spelled out, but even I didn’t always think about it that way! Like, it never occurred to me that my epilepsy played such a big role in how I use color, until my neurologist asked me about my hobbies and went from there. It was my first appointment with my current specialist about 2 years back, and she was making conversation before getting into all the Important Health Stuff™. As I talked to her about it, it got me thinking!

I don't know how many artist on here are epileptic like me, but I wanted to put this out there anyways. It's nice to feel seen and acknowledged, and if I can do that for someone else, that would be pretty cool. If you’re an epileptic person reading this, I see you! You’re so strong, we all are! I believe in you, I believe in us. We’re so much stronger than we get credit for, and it’s going to be ok! You’re valid, and I see you! Keep making your art, we got this!

Hey there everyone, it's that time of year again! Starting in July, it'll officially be Art Fight season! This will be my 6th year participating, so I'm pretty excited to get into it again! Hope to see you all there!

►ArtFight Link: >>> RIGHT HERE! <<<

►Team: Stardust!

►Previous Teams: Dream (2019), Sugar (2020), Cyberpunk (2021), Bloom (2022), Vampires (2023)

►Character Types: Robots, Object heads, Human, Humanoids, Clown/circus, Anthro, Simple Shapes, and more!

►What I'll Draw: Any type of character is fine by me!

►I'm ok with friendly fire! Anyone on any team is welcome to draw my OCs! Happy drawing!!!

LET'S GO TEAM STARDUST 2024!!!

Hello everyone! It's that time of year again, Pride Month! So I'm here to say, Happy Pride Month to everyone who's gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, queer/questioning, asexual, pansexual, and any others out there! This month is for us as a community to celebrate all that we've overcome and achieved, and say loudly that we deserve to exist peacefully without persecution!

It's a powerful and important thing to love and accept yourself, especially when you've been told your whole life that you don't deserve rights, or that your existence alone is a disgusting one. We are just as normal and deserving of respect as our straight friends and family, and we are human! Gay pride isn't about us saying we're better than anyone else, but to let others like us know that we're worthy of love and respect too!

The LGBTQ community is a diverse and wonderful family that's filled to the BRIM with talented artists. It's just like being here on Newgrounds! Think about how boring the world would be if everyone was exactly the same. Just like a world without art! I love it here on Newgrounds, where everyone shares the art that they've poured their souls into. It's fantastic! This is my second Pride Month on NG, and I can't wait to see what everyone's made, just like always! We're absolutely wonderful just the way we are, LGBTQ or straight! Here's to us and everyone on NG! We got this! Stay Awesome!

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Happy New Year 2024 everyone!