So, looks like I'm in the triple digits now! Pretty sweet thing to wake up to (at 1 in the afternoon)! Thanks to all of you for checking out my stuff! Seems like this year really will be a good one for me after all. I certainly hope February and the months following will be as good as January!

January has not only been a good one for my Newgrounds presence, but personally as well. I've finally figured out a vision for my life. I've finally got a plan. I'll just play into my strengths and dedicate all of my time to arts and make it work from there. It's the only thing I'm really good at, so I consider art a gift to my life. On top of that, I'm taking an antidepressant now, and it is helping quite a bit! Also, as of a couple days ago, I have Covid again. It's nothing, I've just had some drowsiness and a stuffy nose. I don't care though, I'm still drawing like usual. Fuck Covid. Also yesterday I just chilled out and beat Castlevania: Circle of the Moon in one sitting. It was a ton of fun, I love that game!

Also, here's what I've been working on:

More Zelda 2 animation progress:

As far as this animation goes, January has just been spent making backgrounds. I'm nearly done thankfully because I'm not too big a fan of doing them. Then I can finally get to arranging the dialogue in Audacity, then I can finally get to the animation proper. I'll probably spend February and most likely a large section of March doing that.

Other random things I'm drawing:

I'm still working on the Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door mural, and I've recently started the Family Guy drawing above. I've found a new technique of sketching, where I map out the values exactly, then I color. I think it helps a lot because I have such a difficult time picturing lighting and colors in my head.

Also, I'll start work on my entry for the Newgrounds Valentine's Day Art Collab soon. Probably sometime later today after I eat. Check out the collab, there's lots of good art in there!

Well, to end this post, thank you all again for the follows and feedback! There will definitely be lots of awesome stuff coming out from me in the future! Have a nice day!

Just wanted to make a quick news post thanking whoever's responsible for putting my artwork on the Front Page! That was such a nice surprise to wake up to! I was skimming the front page, and I scrolled back up and was like 'wait a minute...', so I scrolled back down and there it was!

I'm very thankful that this site is such a good community for artists, and again that my art was put right up on the Front Page!

Also, while I'm posting this news to the Front Page, I may as well tease some works in progress!

Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door drawing:

Zelda 2 Parody animation:

Good day to you, Newgroundsers!

It's 3:55am, January 1st 2024. Wow! 2023 is over! New year, new resolutions, new epiphany, new outlook on life. I am turning things around this year officially. I have a genuinely warm feeling about this year. I know exactly what I have to do to get this life how I want it. I have seen where I would end up if I just kept living the life that I have been living the past several years. I'll pick myself back up. This day onward is a new era.

This year is going to be prosperous for me. I will get a life together, finally. And you'll see me and my art firing at all cylinders. Here's some stuff I've been up to, to tease you for what's to come this year.

Zelda 2 animation I'm working on:

More work on the formerly teased Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door drawing:

Study of beef stew:

I also have a bunch of other ideas for things I have written down that I haven't even started yet.

I thank you for all the support I've got in my first 4 months. Thanks to Newgrounds I have the best place possible to share art and animations across the world. I'm gonna make it big this year, I know it. This website will be seeing a lot of me, and I'll be seeing a lot of you. I'll be posting art and movies like you wouldn't believe, and I will open commissions sometime in the somewhat-near future. I ain't fuckin around no more.

Get excited, internet.

Happy new years, I hope you're feeling as bright about it as I am! :)

Hi whoever is reading this, this is TheBestBroster's 2023 in review.

First of all, isn't it kind of crazy that all of our own individual experiences of years all are a part of the same year? Someone else's 2023 and my own could be completely different individually, but they are both the same year. I don't know, that thought just popped into my head as I started writing this because I thought it sounded cool.

So as I type this, I am half sitting, half laying down on a pile of a blanket, a sweater, a mattress cover and a bedsheet while watching Arrested Development on Netflix. It's 7:18am, and I haven't gone to bed yet as I have apparently gone nocturnal-ish. I love nighttime. Also, my cat Little Socks is with me.

Ok, let's get started for real. 2023 has been the worst year of my life. I can say that with absolute certainty. I have been extremely socially isolated and socially anxious, artistically stagnant in terms of skills and abilities, unable to stop mindlessly consuming junk food, godawfully sedentary, gaining weight slowly but surely, extremely depressed, struggling immensely with ADHD and autism related complications, unable and unwilling to find employment, too lazy to bother getting a driver's license, and pretty stupid with my money as I blew almost all of it on weed from January to August or September or so.

I kind of want to write a super long detailed paragraph or so about each individual point, but I'm sure nobody would read it, and I'm tired as hell and wanting to sleep right now. So I'll just say this. Mental illness has defined this year for me. I realized that in full after a really sucky road trip to New Hampshire this summer. Nobody wanted to do the same things, or was getting along, and it just sucked. Not that it didn't have some nice moments, but overall it wasn't too good.

So as the summer came to a close, I slowly realized I needed help. By October, I got a therapist which is probably the first smart move I made this year. Also, back in September I created this account. It has been a game changer for the last third of this year. 61 people have followed me as of this posting, and (maybe partially as a result) I've felt more of a push to make art and improve my skills and expand my abilities than I've felt in probably more than a year. I really appreciate the kind feedback, and high ratings on my art. It really means the world to me. Because of this new push to make more art and stuff, I've made some strong headway in producing a parody animation of Zelda II: The Adventure of Link. I'm mostly done storyboarding now. I've also started doing studies again, and I forgot how good it feels to get just that little bit better at art. Also, discovering new artists here has been quite a pleasure! There are so many talented people on this website it's insane. Oh, also the forums are a lot of fun. Almost forgot to mention that.

Newgrounds is a huge part of why I am feeling genuinely hopeful about 2024. I feel that if I can become really successful here, it could bleed into my real life somehow. And I am confident that I will find success and a place for myself here in the community with some cool friends, since the last 4 months have gone well for me.

Also, as the year is coming to an end, I have naturally reflected upon it and what I could do better next year, and made some new years resolutions. I know a lot of people like to bash them because most of the time they fall through because they're not taken seriously by those who made them, but if someone is sincere with trying to better their lives, be supportive y'know? I hate when people are dicks about them. Like oh yeah you're so edgy and cool for saying that the resolutions are pointless. Fuck off, dude.

So, my feelings entering 2024 are fairly optimistic and hopeful. I sincerely believe that if I make a serious effort to follow through with the resolutions, and make something of myself here, my 2024 will be nothing like the depressing, pitiful year that was my 2023.

If you're reading this, you're awesome, and thank you very much for reading! I wish you all a happy 2024!

Merry Christmas! I've had a decent day today so far, hope you have too. I'm happy with what I got, and I'm looking forward to 2024! I'm happy with what I've accomplished on NG in the last third of 2023, so I bet next year's gonna be super eventful for me as I plan on furthering my art skills heavily, putting out some animated projects, and of course, getting involved in more collabs! Well, good day to you!

Thank you people for checking out my artwork and following me for more! This account isn't even 4 months old and already 50 people have followed! Wow! I can't believe I am halfway to 100 already! Seriously, thank you guys so much, I love knowing that people like what I do as I personally care about my artwork a great deal. If things have gone this well for me on Newgrounds in this last section of 2023, I can't wait to see that 2024 has in store for me!

To end this post, thank you all for finding me, following me, giving me motivation to draw more and better, and just being nice in general!

Heyyy, I havent posted anything in a bit, im still drawin, but ive been workin on one big paper mario TTYD Picture inspired by the remake coming out soon! I shoould get to drawing some simple lil thing to put out in the meantime though!heres a lil sneaky sneek ;)))