I have a love hate relationship with animation, I love animation and want to be able to do it, but I hate everything I animate

This one is a little more artsy or whatever and in able to be looser with my style which is nice. I'm actually very optimistic for this one so far. But there is a time-limit on this one, this needs to be done by the end of the month (I need to use it for somethin)

So yeah look forward to that

EDIT: The plan is to be finished by wednseday! its kinda cringe ngl, but that never stopped me before

Ive kinda been inactive here for a while and i really feel bad about that, i love ng and its disappointing that i kinda disappeared

Where have i been?

Twitter... yeah i know, I think the thing twitter has that newgrounds doesn't is people, ng just isn't super popular and that's a real bummer, I want to be able to live off of art but doing that just on newgrounds seems impossible, To this day i have never gotten a commission as a result of newgrounds while on twitter there was times i filled my commissions slots and was legitimately overwhelmed with commissions, Im now down to doing 1 slot at a time

I've also been doing a lot more nsfw, i like nsfw but i like doing both sfw and nsfw, and I've kinda become a full on hentai artist because of my commission. On top of that my nsfw has become a lot, weirder i guess, look at my nsfw twitter and you'll see what i mean. I don't like posting that stuff here to frequently so i might just post it all in one submission every now and again

the main issue is not being able to balance both twitter and ng

Here's the twitters btw

NSFW: https://twitter.com/IcyDoesNsfw

SFW: https://twitter.com/Icy_does_art

Whats next?

I want to be more active here but i don't have a lot of plans, i want to join a lot of shorter collabs, like the sketch collab i did this year (if there's any of those coming up you think i might like feel free to suggest them to me), its hard to do projects now since im busier now a days, and i have another art project that i cant fully share here (you might see glimpses of it now and again but i can show much)

I want to do more sfw, since a lot of nsfw i do i don't feel comfortable posting here

I have a nsfw game in the works, I hope to have a version of that on newgrounds whenever its ready

And i feel obligated to say this but i am still planning on doing that big passion project I've mentioned in passing here, i wouldn't expect that for a while but just know right now, it seems like its gonna be a hybrid between video and comic

So yeah that's where I've been and whats going on, i want to be active here more often but it can be hard to manage everything

2021 is almost over so I've been thinkin more about what I want to do next, so for those who are interested here's my retrospective of 2021 and plans for 2022

I made this for an event for a commission discord server I'm in and realised how far I've come this year

The big one is improving my art but I feel that goes without saying by now

Animation

For a while now I've been trying learn animation and If you ask me I'm still pretty shit at it. I've slowly been getting better at it. I want to finally animate something I'm happy with. So, I'm going to do a couple of quick short animations, I dont know if I'll put these all up on newgrounds, I may just bundle them all together then post it here.

Other Project

For a while now I've wanted to start this project, I've always had a passion for storytelling and I've been debating over and over how I should do it, Is my art good enough to start etc. Here's a hint it involves 'alma' and the demon girl I drew in november

Commissions Open

I took a little break from commissions for a bit to focus on other stuff but now I'm back doing them and I'm loving it, they are genuinely fun to work on and I hope to do more in the future. So if your interested dm me I'd love to do something for you

Thats about it really, just wanted to get my thoughts out there.

touch grass,Commissions open, brush your teeth bitch, thats it.

-Icy

I woke up and saw this, Sweet.

I'm FuCkIn ScArEd DuDe... SpOoKy ShItS GoNnA hApPeN.

I never much cared about followers all too much thats why I picked something dumb to make a news post about. I never got the appeal of having a big number because big number is good mainly because bigger number doesnt mean better art , bigger number doesnt mean i get commissioned. Bug number never really appealed to me

But, I do want to thank anyone who has followed me, my main goal originally on newgrounds was to improve my art and the people who follow help more people see my art and the more people who see it the more feedback I get The better my art gets and the better My art gets the more followers I get and it just loops from there

I really fell in love with newgrounds and this community and I cant say that about any other website I have been on online. I dont feel afraid to upload something I know is bad because people seem to understand that i'm trying to improve and many people has helped me improve whether it be leaving a review or allowing me to help out on there projects like Newgrounds arcade and @larrynachos being the first one and helped me out a lot with improving my art further and @luckydee helping me out with the voices for my summer jam entry. Events like the summer jam helped a lot too with the summer jam turning into my anime training arc for animation.

after a year on newgrounds I can safety say newgrounds is my favorite site (The site I use to pirate anime being a close second)

Hi, I am am open to commissions, if you would like to commission me you can DM me here or on my Kofi

I'm comfortable with drawing a lot of things and if you are of unsure what to commission feel free to ask. I will do commissions based on the order they're placed.

Prices

Bust shots 6$ (+4$ for an extra character)

Full body drawing 10$ (+6$ for an extra character)

Each commission comes with a simple background/ transparent background

You can see examples of my work here: 

https://icy64.newgrounds.com/art

-Thank you-