All of us I ask you travelers, are your dreams still pure?

Is the time of the year again uh? well let's start unwrapping what I did for newgrounds and my artistic/design career for whole of the characters remaining I have to yap, uh yeah an introduction, well if you happened to find this reading I'm phaox05 a graphic design student from Ecuador who wants to share its ideas to the world, maybe a little too focus centered in my dreams of becoming an artist/designer for videogames and media but also kinda lazy that I just start tryharding on games telling people that I'm getting inspired with it (it's true tho), well too much for me let's get this started.

Janaiaduary

Not much to add for this month as it was the time where finals exams came by and it makes everyone stay focused on getting that glorious AP, not much after that I decided to make an illustration with background experimentation based on a decoration I have in my house.

Ah yes sketch collab 2023 hosted by @midgetsausage also was posted this month even though it says 2023, that's why I didn't participated in this year's sketch collab xp

February of lovers

I'm sing- but that doesn't stop me for working on romantic art, well the design was kind of poor ngl, Psyca's face is kind of strange but it made a cute addition for the valentines day art collab hosted by @loopykins

I also made some funny stickers for a friend and the club I'm in, they sold very well during the time I started selling stickers at my university, maybe I'll start making more themed ones and get money with it.

Shrimp march

Being sincere I was being lazy during vacations, I'll try to work more on designs and art but at least I worked with a social media post from my university for a shrimp post (didn't like most of the drawings as there were lots than planned, I really want to improve the expressions of the people in here)

Anniversary not anniversary april

April 1st is the time where I created my ng account but didn't make anything special for it, 3 years since then but in the end I'm proud of where I am now, also I made a commission for my friend that it took me longer than expected, kind of amazing for my abilities but still need things to improve.

Pico vs zomaybies

For this month I made some small art, first for a pvz short by @VegaSlash and a pixelart for Picoday, grateful that @Atastic loved it!!!

Junese mythology

For this month I worked on two illustrations for a future illustration book my club is planning to compile (kind of a fanzine of fantasy concept) I really liked how my art improved with the feedback my friends did during the process.

Creative critter july

Cool month for me, I did a variety of drawings and pixelart, first for the bug collab hosted by @Frosty which one of my friends really liked and started doing art of it.

Some other art like me, me in tboi style and a Bolon, a typical food from my country (funny that someone bought the print of that).

Reverse august

For that month I decided to finish a lightning study with Ulu, one of the caracters from reverse 1999, I still need to improve my design and lightning skills xp

Freaktember

Sorry for that title but it's the truth, looking to my art that month I just drew a bunch of girls, first for the movie theater collab by @Ostan5000 , there's Lucy drinking soda.

Then I decided to be part on the first mario bros princess peach design redraw by respriting princess peach as I liked

and finally I drew a spicy Mega-Banette Gijinka for the soon to be posted newgrounds gijinka collab hosted by @KittyhawkMonrose

Wowtober

Maybe the month where I was most active, first with a drawing for the illustration book I told before during "Junese mythology" one of the works I'm most proud of for having such a beautiful color scheme.

I also did some small sketch drawings for the tweentober challenge hosted by my club, just the first 5 days cuz' university started getting heavy on assignments.

Finally I did a birthday gift for a special friend of mine, amphibia themed!!!

Near the end of the month my university did a paste up workshop where I participated pasting up some of the art I have been making during all my career, I invite you to find them all, there's also drawings I haven't posted yet like this one!!!

Dragon ballvember

That month I was pretty occupied with university assignments but I managed to do a special pixelart for the dragon ball collab, which is not published yet so I hope it gets in the movie.

but I also managed to finish a traditional celeste themed food drawing I did on a workshop hosted by my club.

Tankmas ADVENTure december

The last month of the year and it became one of the greatest of all thanks to @MrShmoods and @squidly for hosting the tankmas ADVENTure and letting me join for the festivity, I did some cool winter themed art for the 25th day, the gacha machine and the emote section.

I kind of repeated it like docen of times but I'm grateful that I managed to share something related to my country and hope I keep on doing that as I love where I live and it needs more recognition from time to time, like other artists I admire do as much.

Conclusion

Wow, looking back again I really did a good job, maybe at the first half not much, that's why I was hard on me but is for the sake of improving but the second half just surpasses my art from last year, I'm very proud of myself and I'm looking forward on improving the mental list I have for new illustrations I want to make but also I already made but it needs polishing to be published such as collabs and design projects.

I'm still trying to expand my social medias, I managed to do it so with instagram but just with people from my university, twitter is kind of lame but I'll still keep on posting from time to time just for the funnies I see, not planning to do a bluesky cuz' I think it will not get much attention either, I made a Behance account but it will be more focused on my portfolio as a designer, tho I want to be an illustrator so the content will be kind of same but more organized for the people who wants to hire me.

So what are my plans for the future?

Here's a list of what I'm planning to do for the next year:

• Start organizing more the storytelling of my illustrations focused on Lucy and Psyca
• Create an artist signature such as the design of the description of my posts
• Focus my drawings more on things from my country
• Improve the pose of my characters and also the ambience of the backgrounds
• Organize my behance and post design projects
• Try to get more in touch with newgrounds community
• Try to get one of my illustrations frontpaged xp

Special thanks

Thanks to @Mimny @Tamag0 @Chuw-Croissantier @VIATHINE @VegaSlash @Squidly @Kittyhawkmonrose @MatthewLopz @Sebulant @KingCrowned for interacting with me during the collabs and the tankmas ADVENTure game, even though I'm not so social it was fun to talk with them about random topics.

also thanks @TomFulp for creating this amazing website

Finally thanks to 370+ followers who keep on supporting my art!!!

see you next year with hopes and dreams becoming truth!!!

Phaox05

Some doodles I drew a year ago and never posted, featuring things I like + my Oc Psyca!!!

I'll start using news posts to post doddles, here's an Iansan staring menacingly as I finished playing natlan's first two acts

Introduction

Woah how fast the new year is coming by, with lots of ups and downs in my life but very grateful on how everyone's been supporting my art with the years, 300 fans?!! that's a cool number I've never imagined to achieve and hope it gets higher each time I visit my page.

If you were wondering why so low the interaction with newgrounds comparing last year? that's because I started university and I've decided to become a proffessional with my art so I can live with it, sadly in my country the best social media for sharing art is Instagram so I'm trying to be more active there, BUT I'll never leave newgrounds mainly because I love the support this site has given me and people from my university club are encouraging me to keep helping on those lil' projects as well as theirs.

Now It's time to see everything I did this year so far!!!

January

I remember this month being unproductive as I've recently got a new tablet, graduating from school was also a big barrier to make art as I had to concentrate on life choices.

Also, looking again at my old human art just makes me wanna re-do all of my drawings as this year I've been working to improve on character design xp

February

This month I worked in lots of collabs and projects for next months so I just managed to publish a fanart for the picayune art contest.

March

This month I did a massive fanart about itazura madness, one of the best games I've played on this platform, and the creator liked it!!!

Also this was the month I started looking for improvements on my characters, starting with Psyca!!!

Finally, a lightning practice that for some reason friends and followers really liked.

April

Started the month by celebrating my account's second anniversary, another art I don't really like anymore so I hope next year I do something better xp

I consider this one of my best artworks using my old style, introducing two new ocs and a lot of nature, still aiming on doing full art like this but with my new style.

Again I kept on trying to improve character designs, this time with my first oc Lucy!!!

May

My first collab of the year was published!!! the Pico-Cross Collab 2023, I remember watching the brackenwood series so I decided to draw the popular Bitey and of course a fatsack.

I also made a really bad trivia which nobody managed or maybe even tried to solve for pico day xp, another topic to improve.

I made another drawing staring Lucy!!!

To end the month I participated in a dtiys just to experiment with my artstyle.

June

This is the month where I started to change a lot my art, mainly because I started university and more of my time spent was improving the basis, anatomy, perspective, creative design, etc. that's also why I didn't post a lot as usual.

I also joined an art club called "Tweening", something I really love until now as I managed to meet some cool artists where I live and still working with on amazing projects!!!

This one was an illustration for my club, especifically an art contest that I didn't know what happened at the end x-x

July

Another illustration for my club, spiderverse themed, this one is special as it's my first drawing with the new artstyle and I really like it!!!

Most of the time this month was spent on getting used to my university

September

This month is when I managed to succesfully redesign all of my characters, not anatomically accurate but something near that I like!!!

I've also made something for my best friend's birthday c:

Finally, another collab was posted, the cog collab!!!

October

This month I designed another character that'll take part on that world I'm creating with my other oc's, this time a man as I've never designed one until then.

Two collabs were posted this month, the DAC collab and the creature collab, two collabs with some interesting history behind their productions as their organizers had some delays while creating them, but they finally got submited!!!

Here are the art I've made for both collabs + some other works I've made for the halloween event of my club!!!

November

A gif edition of the coglab was posted this month...for some reason

There was another gallery in my club which I had a lot of fun doing involving Jack Kirby's works, with some art of mine being shown there!!!

Another collab was posted, the fishing collab, which nobody knew it was about to come out as their original organizer left newgrounds a year ago, but it finally came out!!!

Finally, I did another drawing which is one of my favorites this year, because of the colors, composition and comically theme I've decided to show.

December

My last collab was submitted, the gogo's collab, which gives me a lot of nostalgia, so glad I managed to participate in it!!!

My first traditional drawings were posted this month, I really liked how well this post was received, I'll try to make more in the future as I've become to like doing traditional art...but first I need an sketch book and some colors haha.

I've finally decided to participate in this secret santa event where I really enjoyed drawing my gift and also really liked my gift as well!!!

My gift for kakuyamii:

Psyca's art by maxtimes3:

Finally, my last art of the year was posted today!!! in reality I forgot to publish it here as it have been days since my illustration was posted on instagram, sorry x-x

Well I think that's all from me, if for some reason a collab I've also worked on and should be posted this year comes out, I will make an update, until now...that's all :D

Conclusions and the future...

I think I've did all good with art improvement, specially with my artstyle and character designs, obviously there's things I need to improve and I'm looking forward next year to become better and better!!!

Newgrounds: I'll keep making art posts, helping on collabs and maybe talking with people; sadly I've been getting news that people I met here have left and I hope they are good where they chose to be, gotta admit that my interaction with this site have been low comparing to 2022 but no worries the content will always be here!!!

P.d. I'm also looking forward to getting a frontpage, but just time can tell when I can get one!!!

Instagram: It's now my main objective as most of artists from my country uses it, also I'm trying to get more recognition on bigger social medias, I know it's hard but If I want to live doing art I have to take risks so feel free to support me on this journey!!!

X (twitter): I didn't like it so...maybe next time I'll revive that account, when I become more popular I guess...xp

Art: With my improved artstyle I'm now aiming to do more complex art, something with backgrounds, people interacting with each other to tell a story and things like that, so let's keep looking forward, see you next year!!!

-Phaox05

Well this is the third year I participated on pico day so here's all the things I have for you guys!!!

Picocross game

Me and other artists joined together again to make a new and improved picocross collab game, now with story, play the game and watch my drawing here:

Also if you want to check the last year game:

Newgrounds alphabet trivia

Do you want a pfp drawn by me? then check my personal submission for this year pico day, as I'm drawing the first user's pfp that manages to guess all the 26 characters names on it, check it asap!!!

Social medias

Don't forget to follow me on my other accounts, all support is appreciated:

Instagram

Twitter

Don't worry, I will just post art like usual + more doodles while waiting for a new full drawing, so don't forget to follow me if you want to help me grow!!!

-https://twitter.com/Phaox05

Also don't forget to also follow me on instagram!!!

-https://www.instagram.com/instaphaox05

Introduction

Well, we are at the end of the year and I did a lot for newgrounds, with art, animations and games, so I think it is time to make a recap month by month looking at all I experienced and what to expect in the future with my newgrounds account.

January

When the year started I decided to show a random drawing of my oc Lucy who I haven't created a good story for her yet but I'm still thinking on it, as my art has been changing real fast it looks strange for me to see, so I think it is a good moment to show her doing something again in one of my drawings.

Pixel day was amazing and the second newgrounds event I participated, with a game collab called pixelgrounds hosted by @Pomegranite I managed to create some art for the picross puzzles and some of them went to my own art, the newgrounds book, which earned an incredible amount of visits!!!

To end this month I started a challenge made by @DoctorGrambo called messypaints challenge where I have to create a piece each month based on a theme, improving my skills from time to time, here's the art of that month.

February

On february I made a banner for @Balloonshroom to commemorate his first anniversary on newgrounds, which won the contest he made.

then I worked on the second drawing for the messypaints challenge.

March

I started this month by showing my art during the super raft boat art contest, it was interesting and the game kinda fun!!!

Then I finished my drawing of psyca, planned for october of the last year but I didn't managed to finish it until March because of school xp

The NGPR discord server got hacked and people started a collab of bad creepypastas so I decided to join on a gorey adventure to make a cursed bbt story with a drawing proving it is real!!!

Like always I finished the month by showing the messypaints challenge art of the month

April

I started the month by celebrating my first anniversary, yeah I created my account on april 1st because of a joke but then I fell in love with this website.

Then I made the 9th annual AIM contest promo art hosted by @Random-storykeeper I'm very happy to be part on the cover of an album!!!

Also I want to give a shout out to @Quarl for giving a great review to my artwork

After that, another collab game released, the trophy collab hosted by @Mabelma where I made five trophies and the art for the shelf.

During april fools, there was a dank tank art contest where I also participated because why not?

Also, @TomFulp made that event to show the new pfp borders, and after telling him that Plufmot was in the profile picture party banner twice, he put me in, now I'm part of newgrounds history!!!

You know how I end the month, yes, with the messypaints challenge art of the month and one of the bests.

May

May was short but I got my first drawing tablet which my best friend gave me so I decided to make more art!!!

Including the messypaints challenge art of the month for @Peruan123 birthday

June

For the first time in my life I decided to make a small animation, featured on the life and death of boe collab by @Graeme , it was good, so my next ones will be better I'm sure.

Then pico day started and I managed to help on another picross game collab!!! now by @Karlestonchew , with a green knight drawing from castle crashers.

Sadly there wasn't any messypaints challenge art for this month because of school and other projects.

July

I worked on a new design for Lucy but now I understand that I like to do more scenery than just characters so I will work on that in the future for my oc's.

Two messypaints challenge art I made this month, one for June and the other one for July

August

This month started with art for @Party-Machine 's video "the search for the strange grenade launcher"

My birthday came and I decided to make a new pfp of me becoming a clown!!!

I helped on my first movie project, clocks of the BBS 2022 by @Little-Rena , where I made a pixelart gif of nyogoron clock.

I made more art, one for my brother and other for the cult of the lamb art contest, improving more and more my artstyle.

September

This month is special, I drew a cute cat for my best friend's birthday and for me it is the most rated of all my works so far so I'm happy with the results!!!

This drawing also was featured on the cute cat collab hosted by @taka

We will not forget the creature collab by @OneDude20 where I made my own creature!!!

October

I posted my last messypaints work, yeah I decided to stop working on them because of time, but this one went really good and Doctorgrambo liked it!!!

Eg is one of the last works made with my first drawing tablet and I really appreciate the result as it was something I really wanted to remake.

Another collab ant he last game of this year!!! now I made a face for the faces of 2022 collab by @Dungeonation

November

This month was dark as my first drawing tablet broke and I couldn't work on something rather than make an instagram account so please check it out (link) I will post more of my art soon!!!

December

On December I worked on some commisions I made during a school event experimenting with the vectors tools of my drawing program, I think it went well (?)

Finally my last project, an animation for the sketch collab by @midgetsausage this one was huge and I'm very happy to be in there showing how much I've improved with my animation.

Final thoughts and the future

This year was amazing, with lots of people I have worked with and made friends, participated on lots of epic collabs and working on my own art.

I want to make some shoutouts because without them, I wouldn't go so far.

@DemisurgeArchives for showing me the community side of newgrounds

@Taka for proposing good game projects and being positive

@CJspellsfish for letting me play early her crate breaker game

@KingCrowned for appearing everywhere

@Ant for being such a funny guy with his fat fish character

@Kasekit for being such a cool friend and suggesting ideas

and all the 229 fans that are the reason which I keep going with my dream of becoming an artist

So what are the plans for next year? well I got a new drawing setup so I'll keep working on my art!!! sadly January and maybe february I will not be so active as I'm near graduating and I'm trying to apply to a university so wish me all luck and I'll see you next year with more collabs, bigger art, and more of my oc's doing something.

Happy new year!!!

200 fans!!!

Thank you very much guys for the support, I'm really happy on how my account has been growing during all this year and I hope to keep doing projects and art for everyone to enjoy, let's get bigger and bigger!!!

I created an Instagram account

Yeah I opened a new social account to share my art to people from instagram, you can check it here, it will be mainly in spanish but english traduction will be in the description, make sure to follow me and check my last post with information about the account. I was about to create a twitter account but looking that the site is having some big changes I decided to make it later so don't worry about not having faster content from me xp

Where have I been?

Well I haven't posted any news in 5 months that's because I was involved in lots of projects that I will be promoting in the next pages to make a compilation in case someone wants to see the last thing I have done, I'm also near graduating highschool, doing university applications blah blah lots of things that are making me busy.

But there isn't any art of mine since October, well... recently my computer started to have some issues + my drawing tablet stopped working so I'm "taking a break from art" until I get a new setup to make art, but don't worry there's still two projects that will be posted by the end of this month I hope.

Art

Well there's a lot of art I haven't announced in a new post so I will just post the most recent

Movies

-I made a small GIF pixel art animation for the clocks of the BBS 2022 by Little-Rena to celebrate clock day, check it out:

-My best friend's cat is featured on the cute cat collab movie made by @Taka , I really recommend it to you if you like cats:

Games

-I made a little creature for the creature collab game gallery by @OneDude20 , play it if you want some medals or look some fantastic creatures!!!

-Trudy's face (Ennuikal's oc) was featured on the Faces of 2022 collab by Dungeonation, if you want to challenge yourself with a little newgrounds trivia this game is for you:

Future projects

As I said before, I'm waiting to get a new drawing setup to start making drawings again but until then I will start posting some of the best of my old content to my Instagram account, that way that account will not feel empty.

With this account there's still an animation that will be featured in the 2022 sketch collab and some small vector drawings I'm doing just to share some new skills.

Well, that's all I have to announce, see ya later!!!

Hello everyone, long time no see, I have been very busy lately with school and projects that I really didn't have time to even be active on the forums, but that wasn't an excuse to not share art or game content + celebrating Pico day this last month so here we are with my latest submissions!!!

Art

As some people now, I have been trying to change my style a bit, mostly the shading finding a way to merge with the base colors, next drawings will be better than these so you people just have to wait 'till I finish a piece, for the moment here there are the art of the month:

The Life and Death of Boe

Finally this small game came out without knowing it, but I'm really happy to be part of the making of this game with my first ever serious animation, go check it out it's the brush your teeth one, gonna say it's not the best but it's a great start for being my first animation :)

Pico-cross collab

So here is the game I helped to celebrate Pico day 2022!!! I'm really happy to be part of it by drawing green knight from castle crashers, gonna say that schoolwork really getting me busy and I didn't even have time to make a personal project for that special day so I'm grateful that this game saved me for having something really fast, go check it out!!!

My unknown future

Well that's really all the projects I have been helping until now, there's still some games that I'm a play tester and will come out soon so that's something, I'll try to focus on personal drawings improving my shading and character design so keep an eye with my oc's having a redesign.

For now my activity will be less as I have to still focus with school but expect good things in the future, take care everyone!!!

100 fans!!!

Omg guys I'm so grateful with all the love and support you guys gave me during all this time, I managed to work with such great pals and make lots of friends, and I'm also looking forward to do more of it to keep growing with my drawings, for now you can check my recent art from the last month:

Drawing tablet

Recently a friend of mine gifted me a drawing tablet, so I'll start making drawings on a better program, that means I can start improving a lot of my artistic skills with it, but I'm also a bit nervous as I'm not used to draw with these kind of things, the good side is that my friend will help me with getting used of it.

Activity changes

Well I'm gonna give the bad new (I guess so), as some people know I went again to school so sadly I won't be so much active with my drawings as I have to concentrate with learning, that doesn't mean I won't post any drawings but it will take me more time to finish one.

Hopefully this month I will have two drawings posted and I will focus on making art for Piconjo and Pico day, during that time I'll also work with some pals for a new game.

About the animation, it's done!!! we'll just have to wait a few months for it to be released on the game I was working ;)