Cardboard Wizard

Big shout-out to the awesome 600+ people who took time out of their day to enjoy some of my art!

I could never have expected so many of you guys to be here, but, here we are.

I'm honored you guys found something you can enjoy here, and it means the world that you'd stick around to see what I make next, even if the ride can be bumpy, and the quality of said art goes up and down as I continue to learn what it is that I want to make with what spare time I can work with.

Now there's a lot of artists out there with massive followings that dwarf my own, but to me this is CRAZY. To put it in my own perspective for you guys, 600 is practically an entire small town in the area I live in. INSANITY. If I had to say all of this out loud for you all like a speech, on a big stage, I'd be frozen in fear just for the sheer amount of people before me.

So let me take a step back here and humble myself before my ego gets the best of me, ahaha.

Thank you all so very much. Like seriously you guys.

Out of all the sites I've used on the internet, all of you here on Newgrounds has been the biggest and most supportive group of people who've shown interest in my work so consistently. I cherish all the comments you guys leave on my stuff, and the people who take the time to do so.

...but hey, now that we're past all this sappy stuff, now's the time to let my ego go unrestrained and say HOLY MOLY, LOOK AT ME NOW MOM, I'M A POPULAR ARTIST!

YOU DOWN THERE IN THE FRONT! YES YOU! PASS THE WORD ALONG ABOUT THAT ONE COOL ARTIST GUY (that's me!) SO WE CAN BOOST THOSE NUMBERS UP. LETS HIT 1000, BECAUSE WHY NOT

IN FACT, THIS IS NOW A THREAT:

Oh and happy 2025 ya'll, let's have a good one

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Just gotta let the world know I have the coolest boss at my day job. Gave me this Redbox kiosk for free!

I was able to bypass the internal boot sequence and start it in safe mode, but it's pretty much locked down unless I reinstall windows or linux, but I don't want to wipe anything. Has important drivers and such, like the touchscreen, and probably code to run the internal servo motors.

I tried some workarounds from a discord group that is repurposing the kiosks, but most of it wasn't working for me. Can't even bring up the task manager even though I reenabled it using regedit. That, and it crashes shortly after booting into normal mode with the boot environment overrode with explorer.exe. Oh well, besides that everything is in good condition and still functions outside the actual Redbox software side of things.

The screen has both VGA and DVI inputs, and luckily I had an old DVI-to-HDMI cable lying around. Hooks up to the Steamdeck just fine, and looks amazing! Basically an instant arcade cabinet with a wireless controller.

Eventually I wanna do some kind of project with it, maybe an arcade cabinet, some kind of digital jukebox, A giant PC tower with RGB lights, or SOMETHING. In any case, it's gonna be stuck out it the garage for a while, so I'm hesitant to put a different PC in there.

Plus, there's no room in the house right now, so having any practical use is out of the question. It'll be winter soon, and I ain't gonna freeze standing out in the garage later this year. Just gonna have to clean it up and keep it safe until I have a good plan for it.

But man, this thing is cool.

Haven't drawn as much as I'd like this year (busy with work, and having a little artistic burnout lately), but here's a bunch of doodles since the last dump!

I post a LOT of doodles on twitter, but they usually don't make their way over here since I like to keep my uploads mainly finished work that I've spent a decent amount of time on.

Anyways, here's a handful of doodle pages from the last couple months! Enjoy!

aka, sorry for the art spam! Did some art for followers on twitter, and figured I'd upload them all in one go.

11 artwork in 4 days. Not too shabby

Newgrounds Requests:

Twitter Requests:

Thanks to all of those that left requests while I had them open! I'm glad I was able to draw some new things for people, and hopefully put a smile on a few faces while doing so. I'll have to hold another one of these later on at another milestone when I'm up for it! It's always a load of fun drawing characters I'd normally not get the chance to!

UPDATE: As of writing this, I've decided to do two more existing requests, of which I've already picked out. One from twitter, and one from Newgrounds, to make a total of six request illustrations completed when I'm done. (3 for each site)

When I finish these last two, I'll mark this as 'ENDED', and make a new post containing all six pieces.

I wanna thank everyone who took the time to leave a suggestion, and say that it's been really fun drawing characters that I'd normally not get the chance to draw.

ORIGINAL POST:

Alright, since I've hit 220 followers, and 350 over on Twitter, this time I'm bringing back the art request event over here too! If there's anything you've wanted to see in my style, or an OC you have, feel free to suggest it down in the comments! 👍

This is for anyone who's following me on either site, since it's a good way to say "thanks for sticking around". It means a lot that so many of you enjoyed my art in one way or another.

If you want in, you know what to do ☝

• Only a couple things to keep in mind:
• No nsfw, or real-life photos.
• I'll prioritize human characters, but simple mecha/robots are good too.
• Finished art will be posted here, twitter, and ko-fi. If it's an OC, I'll either tag you, or give credit in the description.
• Reference images would be helpful!
• -- If your character is in your Newgrounds gallery, just let me know.
• -- If it's from a game, show, or series, just put their name, and what they're from.

Don't worry if I've drawn for you before, or if it's a character I've done already in the past, it's all good! This is all done for fun anyways. It's an excuse to draw a variety of things to improve my art, and to interact with you all more since I'm a quiet person, ahaha.

There's no money or anything involved, I just want to have fun and draw some things for people. So if I don't get around to drawing something, you don't lose anything by leaving a suggestion. You can just use the comments below, no need for DMs if you don't feel like it. I'm also running this on twitter, so don't fret if I don't get back to you since I can't reply to everyone.

Since I have a day job (even if it is just part-time), there might be some delay between posts. I'm not putting a deadline for this event, but I'll let people know when I've decided that it's over. You can just check the post title, and if it has a "(ended)" at the end, then you'll know what's up.