I finished my vacations in México City, and i'm finally back to my beloved León in Guanajuato, as well as to Newgrounds in absolute presence. It was a pleasant travel, the city is way bigger than I imagined, and is full of many trees all around the place. It's temperature is also much less hot than in León, which kinda helped when walking around during midday.

I took many photos during my trip, some just to share and some more artistic looking photos (which I'm sharing in a separate post). Also, apparently my mom accidentally stole a spoon from a restaurant, guess that counts as a souvenir (???). The city is also really full of foreign people: United statians, asiatic people, english people (from what I could see in some data, even lots of haitians and people from hispanic-america).

The centre of México City is so full of life

"El david" decorating a fountain in a park

Some random sidewalk. Traffic never stops in this city

The good old Cantinflas observing everybody walking around

The mixture of Mexican, Spain and French influence in the infrastructure gives the city a lovely mood

Some random cafe called "Panadería Rosetta"

My finger wanted a selfie with the ceramic fish of that pot

Some cool looking picture with a cool looking perspective

A gothic looking castle. It was part of an art exposition

It looks like a folding screen made out of various pictures

If you've noticed, even though I can make "good" music, I don't publish a lot compared to everything else. In my almost 7 months of life, I've only shared 7 tracks (1 per month on average practically). There's a reason for that. Even thought I can make music since I have the knowledge and resources, I tend to face a feeling of futility as if in a given point I couldn't go further to finish a track. It's not my only problem, of course, but it tends to be the most common.

But not anymore! I've realized the reason might be that I usually tend to exhaust myself when making music. After hours and hours of hearing the same sounds and melodies, my brain begins to feel tired, and I tend to misunderstand that feeling as if I was just lacking real ability to make music, and I demotivate myself, reason why I never finish anything music related. Now that I know about it, my work flow for making music might be more fluent, which is great.

I want to see if I can begin to post music more regularly. At the moment, consider "regularly" as at least two songs per month. Even if I don't face demotivation anymore, my skill is still pretty behind compared to others, and let's not forget that i'm also an artist and a game dev making things in that directions (aside from the fact I have other things to do in real life :T). I just wanted to share this small thought, and let it out of my mind. Thanks for reading :333

Hello, this post is part of a series i'm doing to help NG artists outstand a bit. I'm not scheduling these, so the next entry could be next week or next month, have at you.

Below are 5 artists selected by me, as some of the best artists in this platform, and some of their work so you can criticize them. These 5 are elected for this particular post, not meaning they are the bestest out there (maybe they are tho).

1 - StevSteelEn: Art Lover

Project submission average: 1 work every 4.7 days

Posts, blogs & reviews average: 0.67 posts per day

The classic Newgrounds chaotic energy, modernized!

@StevSteelEn isn't just a great artist, but also a rad fella. Many guys (including me) believe he deserves more attention for the quality of his art, specially considering he does most of these out of pure boredom.

He also has a variety of characters who involve in situations of all kinds. From the rad bunny Riley, to the terrifying cat Cassie. If you love dynamism, colorful palettes and some possible epic looking wallpapers, don't hesitate and give Stev the opportunity he deserves to shine.

2 - Whimsical-wife: Art Lover

Project submission average: 1 work every 6.22 days

Posts, blogs & reviews average: 1.34 posts per day

A little socially inept, but definitely artistically capable.

@whimsical-wife (or Kyia) is an energetic force of nature. A fanatic of pokemon, MLP, and some other things, as well as a lovely artist with a smooth lineless artstyle that oscillates between wholesomeness and creepiness whenever needed (tho you will find mostly wholesome things, I swear).

Kyia is also a cool person, and is very capable of giving ideas and help whenever she's needed, as shown in the Pokemon Mystery Meat Collab (she co-hosted it, in case u didn't know). I'd highly recommend looking at her profile if you're into cute looking artworks (or pokemon, which for the case is the same).

3 - Latadenata: Musician

Project submission average: 1 work every 14.9 days

Posts, blogs & reviews average: 0.37 posts per day

He's a musician wannabe (and I wannabe a musician like him)

I find very regularly that whenever @Latadenata uploads something, without knowing what i'm gonna hear, I know i'm gonna listen a story. Not only his music style is quite variated, as he seems aimed to experiment with things, but the music he makes tends to be very emotional, which helps to write some sort of fairy tale while listening to it.

Some of it's music is very energetic, while some other is very soothing. But the way I see it, all of his music is very magical, and can serve various purposes, like relaxing the mind, giving inspiration, fulfilling the OST of a game or a movie, and many other things, reason why I recommend you to hear his music.

4 - Serafin-corpse: Art Lover

Project submission average: 1 work every 4.99 days

Posts, blogs & reviews average: 0.36 posts per day

They wish you a nice day, so do I, ENJOY!!!

Not only as an artist, but as a person in general, I find magnificent the things that are done for pure and utter passion, even if that means going to weird territory. Because of that, I find the works of @Serafin-corpse as something inspiring and satisfactory.

I've seen their presence and activity be kinda "relax" in terms of submissions and posts, as it takes quite a time for they to publish something new. Honestly, if that wait means finding epic pieces like the ones above or the ones below, I don't mind waiting for a while.

5 - X-500: Blank slate

Project submission average: 1 work every 1.45 days

Posts, blogs & reviews average: 4.51 posts per day

Newgrounds is his home and his life, which makes him our brother, and brothers always help each other

Legends say @X-500, also known by various other names, like ZdiK, is a dedicated and passionate musician, who makes epic electronic music pieces, proper of pure gods and realms far beyond our comprehension.

Let's leave the poethic aura behind. X-500 music style envelopes a lot of energy, even if some of his musical pieces don't move that much or contain simpler instruments. This is the reason why I refer to it as "proper of pure gods" since somehow it manages to have a ethereal feeling to it sometimes. Speaking about ethereal feelings...

Is it finished? SURE IT IS!!!!

Thanks for spending your time reading this post, and if you know any artist you think deserves more recognizement, let me know in comments, so I consider them for future posts (you can even recommend yourself, and i'll make sure to visit your profile whenever I have time). Also remember, i'm not a critic, and this post is made for both fun and for giving visibility to other artists.

If you want to see all the posts so far, go to the playlist of recommended artists in my profile

Just finished with my duty, Emiliano out!

I'm finally on vacations, more specifically, two weeks of not-school. This is gonna be helpful, since I have way too many things to do (so I can at least filter a bit my schedule). I'm also gonna go to CDMX the next weekend for vacation, which is gonna be great so I can disconnect from social media, at least for a bit. I promise to take photos and share them when back :)

...red roses too...

Last weeks have been quite busy, as you may have noticed due to my lack of interaction with the community (if you ever noticed to begin with). Let's make a small recap to see what's happening in the backstage:

Who's That Pokemeat?

I was the one who developed the "Who's that Pokemeat?" guessing game for the Pokemon Mystery Meat Collab. That was during the whole of February, which consumed most of my time.

Where's the Recommended Artists #4 post?

Every installment takes like a month for me to gather enough motivation to make it a reality. Well, it's already been more than a month, and it still ain't finished. This wouldn't bother me a lot if it weren't for the fact it has been in schedule earlier than the "Who's that Pokemeat?" game. Some other projects have kept me busy, but I should seriously make the next installment if I really plan to be this cautious with my work, speaking of which...

Earth Day Collab

Earth day falls this April 22nd, as well as the collab i'm hosting. Fortunately, I've already got me an idea of what to do to showcase the arts of everyone. My only downside is i'm gonna need original music for it, so, if u are a musician and are interested, PM me, and I shall be forever grateful with you (I don't have money :p).

Boring things...

Outside of everything else, I have to deal with school. I also happen to have troubles with my parents. Nothing serious, is more bothering for them than for me, but still, those kind of problems mean time I don't use for funnier things. Fortunately, vacations are at the corner, so in like a week more, I will have plenty of time to do whatever I want, like focusing more on the delayed projects.

The arts of the "One char per day challenge" have kept my account alive and active fortunately, that's why this unactivity doesn't have me stressed. I hope to be more organized in the future so I don't have to spend a whole month without showing nothing to people (or at least have a better capacity to improvise through my necessities).

Now that I have my imaginary virtual coffee with me, I hope nothing astounding makes me spit it in surprise while I check my Newgrounds feed... AY, WTH? WHAT'S THAT?!

eleven thousand seven hundred nine views. I knew one day I'd reach such levels of view in any of my works, but damn, that's way too early! I ain't even that famous yet!

*spits the coffee and recomposes*

Now, let's be clear. I know these numbers are because of the Collab, after all, murderous animals, dangerous parents and pokemons are a good combination (apparently). Boxanne hasn't reached 10% of that views numbers yet. I'm still gonna feel proud of myself, specially considering I wasn't originally be part of the collab, but they decided I deserved to be a part of it. I wonder if the Earth Day Collab will reach a similar kind of success (I doubt it but only time can tell).

So, at this moment, "Who's that Pokemeat?" has been played 2,185 times, received 143 votes and gotten 36 favorites, as well as a 3.99/5 stars puntuation, which are already very satisfying statistics. However, something else has happened now:

Not only it got frontpaged (which is the first time something I make gets frontpaged), but it also got rewarded with Daily 2nd Place. Now, seeing it frontpaged was already fantastic, but I didn't brag about it since it probably got frontpaged because of the collab itself. The other thing, however, feels way more amazing, as not everyone gets that prize that easily. Even if was purely for the collab as well, feels good to know I was part of something people actually enjoyed a lot.

I hope future projects reach this level of recognizement, so expect more cool things in the future (of course, that will take more work, and thus, time, so patience is required).

I've been working in a game for a very long time, and I feel very tired. Not only that, but I also feel tired because of school (for nothing in particular, I just hate school). Understand "long time" as aprox. 2 or 3 weeks, there were probably more, but these are the ones related to productive time. This was due to bug fixes and uploads and some other things related to that work. At least you'll see it published in a few hours.

Speaking of bug fixes, I found out the reason why BOXANNE! ran at wrong speed for some people (is actually a very simple reason, and I feel kinda stupid for not knowing about that :p). I'm gonna update the game in the upcoming days for the future generations to enjoy. That's mostly it, if my next news post isn't a shitpost, a vent like this or the celebration for reaching 100 followers, will most likely be the Recommended Artists #4. See you around :3