Hi everyone! As y'all might know, a couple of weeks ago, I got into a car accident that resulted in the front bumper of my car to completely mess up the radiator system. Among other parts that needed to be replaced entirely, it has resulted in me having to spend an immensely expensive repair bill.

Well, with the community and some friends that chipped in to help, I have been able to pay HALF of the repair bill! No words can describe how blessed and thankful I am to have amazing friends and a community that's always there to help one out. All I can really say is... THANK YOU!!! I have to give back to y'all something in return, seriously, thank y'all for the support... HUGE thank you and shout out to @ADR3-N for spreading the word around and helping me out too. Go give her a follow and check out her stuff why don't ya!

So now with the huge news out of the way, I have to mention a couple extra things before I forget. Those being the NG 30th Anniversary Site Skin collab and a surprise new collab in the works.

For the site skin collab, a whopping total 50 out of 85 NG characters have been completed for the collab, which means more than half are completed before the 30th anniversary. Yay! I will be asking for some additional help with a couple of peeps who have been kind to volunteer to help out with the collab, will list the names once confirmed later on.

Our next topic is about an old collab that I have been given the permissions to revive and host this summer. That collab being the Sketchbook Tour, originally created and hosted by @Luis.

Here are his previous collab submissions for what's to be expected. I am currently writing up a document going over the rules, guidelines and what to expect for the collab. This should be ready to launch between June and July of this year, look out for a news post for the collab around that time!

And lastly, I opened an online print shop! Right now, all prints are at the lowest price of $12 USD, and all prints are the most recent, original artworks of mine. Stickers and other goodies will arrive at my shop later on (I got some good ideas for them), but for now, if you'd like to support me further and have a print of my work, it will mean everything to me. Here is a link to the print shop for you to check out: https://www.inprnt.com/gallery/porter/

That's all for now, if you made it this far, thank you once again for the support you as a community have given me. You guys rock'n'roll. :D

So. Yeah... This happened.

Fortunately no one got hurt. However, my total car repair bill is a whopping $2500 for everything they see needs to be fixed and replaced... Not fun! Even as the radiator system needs to be entirely replaced, there are also other parts you might see inside where they need to also be looked at. Yuck.

So this has urged me to get some help through commissions because well, this is gonna hurt my wallet for a little while. I am offering just $50 FLAT on a full body, full render, with a choice of a simple or detailed background. Additional characters will just be $25 each. AND if you can only afford small donations, THAT IS AN OPTION! You can redirect yourself to my Ko-Fi page for that. But if you want to receive a sketch from it, DM ME and I'll get that done as a thank you.

https://ko-fi.com/porter

https://ko-fi.com/porter

https://ko-fi.com/porter

DM me if you're interested in commissioning me and we can go from there. I am flexible with payment options via using Ko-Fi or anywhere else. Sharing this around really helps out too, but anything goes. Thank y'all in advance to those who're there to help. (And remember to stay safe out there!)

THE COLLAB IS COMPLETE!!! Come check out all of the entries everyone submitted to the gallery and give them your support while you're at it.

I want to give a huge shout out and thank you to those who I worked with during the last few months now. @Chdonga and @Aalasteir for helping getting this collab to be what it was meant to be. @AlexToolStudio for making this possible by coming up with a great idea, having me on board to help all three of you, and organizing it for everyone to see. I am honored and proud of being a part of this team to help bring this to life, thank you all three of you, and thank you to everyone who participated with their submissions. Everyone did an awesome job with their entries. Neat!

And with that being said, have some recent art of mine for those who do not know me yet. Hi.

Check out Aalasteir's stuff too!

Come check out Chdonga's stuff also!

And of course, see some of what AlexToolStudio has gotten involved in as well.

And with all of that being said, cheers to everyone on this amazing website and for the rest of our time here!

Never thought that I'd be picked but here we are! I feel honored, thank y'all to the community and staff making the place as awesome as it can be. Being active for about 6 years now and I don't think that I'll ever stop hopping on here anytime soon.

I guess to start off, I want to share what I have been working on and possible future projects outside of the website I am currently developing.

Drawing conceptual art and character design pieces for a story I am writing. I plan to make it into a written novel along with some illustrations to add in each chapter to help make it stand out. Also to get my writing skills in tact... Otherwise, I have the concept design of my cover and written layout completed, but that's gonna be kept secret until the book is completed in the future. ;)

Let me know if y'all want to see more art of my character(s) along with some lore!

Next is a collab I am now a part of in which I have designed the UI layouts for each screen. Finished these last night in one sitting, I think my graphic design skills are slightly getting better... But erm, yeah got that done and just looking for someone who could code the buttons and such to make it interactive, and maybe someone to do the sound FX and such. Hoping to get that going soon! (UPDATE: That has been situated as of like, JUST NOW)

Last tid bits are that I am working on a student animated film with a friend and their small team. Won't provide any further details as that is out of my power, BUT something is coming up real soon. Lastly lastly, been writing a couple of screenplays for a short animation and live action film to put out, those will def take a fat minute but BLAME the perfectionist side of me for that... Yeah!

I would share my life story but, I do not want to bore y'all, and instead should get into the good stuff to celebrate with. :)

ALL of my commission prices will be lowered, for anyone on this website, to be 50% off via a code I'll provide in the DMs. ONLY for the months of June through July of this year.

How cool does that sound? Super cool I think. Yeah? Yeah...

Well anyway, again, thank you to everyone in the community and staff, every single one of you is cool and you KNOW IT!