16 OF YOU! Thank You! by MalFromed on Newgrounds

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16 OF YOU! Thank You!

I did it! I got it out before the year ended! What's that you say? The year's already over? Well, that's wrong, doofus! It's still December 31st, 2020 in the Baker Islands! That means I still got time! So, as long as this big old ball of mud has not finished rotating, it's full 24-something hour cycle the day ain't over! In my book, the conditions for success have been met! I will go to any length to bullshit a victory!

Anyway, I just really wanted to say thank you to anyone who decided to follow me. Now, I'm not dumb. I know that some people that follow me will never see this. But I still appreciate them all the same. So to whoever is reading this, that comic's for you!

Not to get sappy or anything, but this really does mean a lot to me. I never thought I'd see that number heading into the double digits, let alone before I even did anything. And while there is a reason that I think that way, I won't bore you with that story. I'm too tired to tell it right now anyway. Just know that I'm deeply flattered.

Before I get down to the meat of things, let me tell you a little something about myself. You may have noticed, on my page banner or some other thing, that I have misspelled a number of words. I'd like to take a moment to inform you that I don't do that to be quirky or different. I literally can't spell. You see, I suffer from dysgraphia. It's a brain issue that can't be fixed. And to my knowledge, a person's just born with it. There are two primary things it does to a person. Firstly, it affects a person's fine motor skills. This affects the hands in ways like being able to hold a pencil "correctly" or flipping somebody off. I can't do either of these things without my hands being in physical pain. The only way I'm able to draw without pain is if I use all my fingers (On one hand, silly). Secondly, it affects a person's ability to remember how words are spelled. Some days are better than others. Sometimes you get lucky and spell a word like "correctly" correctly. And sometimes you have a breakdown because you have forgotten how to spell a word like "oak." It made school really fun. But it's not all bad. Sometimes I'm able to come up with amusing nonsense words. You can poke fun, I don't mind.

Now you might be thinking, how the hell are you able to write any of this if you can't remember how anything is spelled? Simple. I was using Google's voice search option, as much of a pain as that was. But, then I found this: https://speechnotes.co/# and life became much easier. I really wish I had this growing up...

With that out of the way, now to give my thoughts about what I've made. I'd like to start off by saying I'm aware that there's a slight flickering. I've got no idea why that is. Anyway, I don't hate what I've made. But I certainly don't like it. Didn't really turn out as well as I had hoped. Which tells me that I still got a long way to go. I'm not too wild about pretty much any of the colors that I used in this. But I had spent so much time looking for the right colors that I hit a point where I just had to simply move on. I do find it funny that the only colors I liked in this were the ones in the final panel. The ones where I said to myself, "Dude, I don't know!" and just threw out some colors in 2 seconds. I think part of my problem is trying too hard. Gotta learn to relax more and go with the flow. The colors for the walls are kind of atrocious and don't blend all that well at all. I could have done a way better job showing clutter. What's there just looks like random scattered items. I could have done a far better job conveying that all the furniture in the house is made of cardboard. And to top it off, a lot of the aesthetic just clashes. Now for the things I do like about it. I like the exterior of the house, but I probably should have looked for a way to expand on that. The yard is fine, but I should have implemented a few more ideas for it. The clouds look neat, which is really saying something. Prior to this picture, I really hated every cloud I ever made. For some reason, I really like the carpet. I feel the monologue I made is good enough. My only regret is that I didn't give myself enough time to make it funnier, which I easily know I could have done. And I'm really happy with how some of the two frame animations turned out. You look at that majestic beast tip toeing over to that desk and tell me he is not a beautiful creature! You cannot.

All in all my biggest self-criticism is that it's very obvious that I lack a sense of direction. I just wish I could have offered up something better for you all, but at the same time, I know I did the best I could. One step at a time and all that. Now, if I had to give this my honest rating, I'd say a 2.5 would be pushing it. But it's whatever. The next one will be better, I'm sure.

Ultimately when look at this, I can't help but feel like I should have just tried to draw it. Despite what you see above, I can sort of draw. So let me make up for the shitty pixel art comic with some things I'm not too embarrassed to show off.

As you can see here, all I have to show off is a bevy of unimpressive doodles and incomplete projects that I plan to restart some day.

It's been a while since I've put pen to tablet. The whole dysgraphia thing kind of makes doing traditional art a pain. Haha, get it? I plan to use this year to get back into my lessons. Anatomy is next up on the chopping block. Do wish me luck. If you're reading this and made it to the end, I'd like to give you my thanks for giving me the motivation to do this, and I hope you stick around. I got big things on my mind. I hope you're there to see it when I take that step. But for now, you'll just have to settle for watching me evolve. Till next time and again, thank you!

Also, a new secret message will be added to my page banner. I bet you didn't even know.

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FluxyShark

2024-03-21 07:01:35

The art and animation in this is absolutely charming, and reading through the description took it from impressive to genuinely inspirational, I also found it relatable in a way.

Myself, ADHD brain and dyslexia made english a special kind of hell, everyone told me I'd always be awful at it. So, like any balanced or rational human, I cracked the shits and ended up writing a novel if for nothing but to prove I could do it. It was TERRIBLE, AWFUL quality stuff, but reading through 100,000 words of something I wrote myself just lit this fire that's led me down 10 years of writing, 5 years of practicing art and just now starting at getting into music.

Seeing this here and reading through your own journey brought back that feeling and turned it to 11, pressing on to make something great despite the challanges present.

The world's a better place with work like this in it dude, should be proud ^_^

Mustabulus

2021-10-25 20:11:50

I think the animated pixel art comic over all is amazing, like honestly. This is gonna be badly worded cause I'm tired but lemme start with the art part of the lil comic first: I love the whole look of the art, it's simple and goofy, as well as surreal with your persona, it's very funny on how his mannerisms make his body contort, and the visual gags with both that and stuff like how "art" and "music" as well as "accounting bills" are blocks of cheese with holes/bites taken out of them, as well as the last one being untouched unlike the other ones. the art itself has the look of a mix of things, like 2000s/early 2010s educational flash games and old pixel webcomics, ones kinda like homestuck, it also reminds me of just old webcomics in general from that time for some reason. The lil animations are very very charming and really add to the humorous but self critical theme of the whole thing. I think the details, patterns and texture of the background are all very nice. Some of the objects are more detailed and more realistic than others, which I know some would say that's a bad thing but I think it's charming and honestly fits with the goofiness of the art. Now on to the monologue, I think it's great. wordy sure, but isn't a monologue a look into an individuals thoughts? some people are wordier than others (I would know lol). that leads to me to my next point, the text is full of personality and says a lot about the person whos thinking it, even in tone. Feels like a posh introverted person who jabs at themselves in a gentleman's kind of way, it's also very philosophical with every day dread and one's hopes and dreams, as well as insecurities and doubt. the flavor text is flavorful is what I'm saying here.
Now that that's outta the way, I'd like to say I had no idea you had dysgraphia, I just thought it you liked scrabbling words here and there for the fun of it. I personally am slow and have always had a thing where sometimes I accidently write gibberish cause I malfunctioned mid sentence and such, so I personally hate writing too. especially writing words, I have horrible hand writing, and when I was younger it used to hurt my hand a lot, drawings actually helped me with that a bit though. Anyway, I like those doodles, very simple and pretty clean and fluent stroke wise, all things considered. They have a surreal goofy feel to them, It's kinda nostalgic to me to be honest with you. they all remind me of old shows I enjoyed of varying art styles. when I saw the 7th one, while a bunch is going on, the lil screaming dog creature head makes me think of two things:
Wile E. Coyote
and my dads old college art.
anywho, I've said a bunch and I don't wanna make this just become me rambling, but after reading a lot, I thought it was right to write a bunch in response.
This is great, keep making shit buddy. You may not like it but others definitely will.

PS. don't be so damn hard on yourself!
- a hypocrite