Heyy! How're y'all doing?

I've had a lot of stuff happen in just a few days. So I'm just going to briefly touch up on those :)

▪I survived my final exams and have time to do stuff again! :D (I passed them all if you were wondering...probably no one is though xD)

▪On my last day of exams I ended up getting sick as a dog out of nowhere, and the medicine I was taking started to affect my breathing, and I kinda thought I was gonna die...So I stayed in the ER for 6 hours, comming home at 3 a.m.

(But I'm ok now I'm completely back to normal. As soon as I was treated in the ER I felt better in hours. I even competed in a gymnastics competition 3 days later)

(Also what is with me and getting hurt/sick recently xD

I swear im a magnet for trouble.)

▪Also I might be making some mini comics soon...maybe ;)

Maybe it doesn't seem like much written down, but the actual time span for some of these felt virtually (and in some cases) agonizingly long.

At least I get to finally start drawing again...even though my drawing tablet hardly works. So thats something to look forward to! :D

Thank you all for checking in and I'll see yall fairly soon-ish!

So it's been a bit...like an entire month since I've done anything on Newgrounds. So I hope y'all haven't forgotten me...(is anyone still here? xD)

I've just been really busy with a lotta stuff, and have had a few health issues, like a concussion. (Reeee!) Also my finals week was moved to next week because of snow so I've a bit of prolonged stress.

Lots of fun stuff! But the part that really sucks, at least for me, because I love art, is that my drawing tablet is broken. Thats why I haven't posted any art for a while :/

In the mean time, I've been making more traditional art, which helped me remember how therapeutic it could be. I've really enjoyed it a lot, but hopefully I can get my tablet fixed soon...or else I have to buy another one, but they're so frickin expensive! (To be fair the tablet I currently own was my sister's, and I guess it was already kinda broken when I received it :P )

So sorry for not updating since...the beginning of the year... xD

I really couldn't find time to try to post or really draw a lot, and when I did have time, I either used it to study, try to keep my composure while my brain feels like its dying and can't focus on anything, or I just completely space it on accident.

Anyway, ill hopefully be posting some art soon, and I'll see you all later and try not to die. :D

Heyo just wanted to come in and say Happy New Year! Can't believe its already 2020!

Just gonna update on a couple of small things and do a little bit of story telling :3

So I said around a week ago that I would draw a lot of Christmas stuff, aaand I ended up not drawing a single thing that was Christmas related... :c

Sorry about that! ;-;

I really did want to draw some Christmas stuff and was super excited about it too...but time just went way too fast for me.

Well, theres always next ye-!

Ah, this year! :D

...and about a bazillion more holidays to come.

In other news, I've been thinking seriously about getting back into trying to figure out animation again, mostly because I got a pretty good story in mind that I'd love to see animated, so why not by my own hand?

The story features this girl who's made of glass. (I drew her...do ya remember?)

Hmm Nyes~

Basicly its about a little girl who gets lost in a city, and she's terrified of everyone and everything around her, so she physically and mentally blocks herself off from them (symbolized by a glass barrier thing that makes her seem like she's made of glass)

Because she's blocked herself off, whenever someone is kind to her or touches her, the glass around her starts to crack (her eye thing is because someone tried to dry her tears)

She meets a wind up soldier toy that comes to life when its wound up (I may or may not have stolen this concept from myself...) And the toy becomes friends with her and starts leading her through the city.

But after a while the toy's wind runs out and he returns to a normal object. The girl runs away and hides, leaving the toy in the street, who later wakes up to see a woman had rewound him, who turns out to be the girl's mother.

The toy reunites them and all the glass around the girl is broken, and blah blah blah happy ending yay.

(Ya know come to think of it a lot of my stories take place in cities...which is a bit weird because I live in a country-ish small town. Guess I just really like cities. They are pretty at night...)

The story may not sound super 'amazing' (I did just give a cheap summary because rn I neeeed sleeep) but I can imagine it looking really cool and being just short and sweet little animated thingy in my brainness.

Alright I think thats enough rambling from me! G'night!

Heeeeeeeeeeyyyyyy guess what?

I got my first ten fans :D

Might not be much of a milestone to, well, almost everyone, but it was more than I thought I'd ever get (the self doubt is comming back...AH! NO! STAY AWAY!)

It took me a while to get ten fans too, so it at least feels important to me, and its somthing nice I can look on in the future...when I get 11 fans xD

So anyway, thank y'all for following me, and sticking with me this long, even though a lot of my art has been...well, mediocre. And even though I'm a dorky nerd. (Im still working hard to improve so...fun times!)

(Also if there's any new fans here...get prepared for a load of nonsense and randomness because most times I'm pretty sure im half insane xD)

So yeah! Thank you all, Happy Hollidaysness aaaand yes. ;3

Hey yall, so I just wanted to make this quick update because pretty soon here, ya might not see a lot of me for a few weeks. The reason being the holiday season, and high school finals for my first semester ;-;

Yeah, time to climb stress mountain.

I wont have a ton of time to post stuff, but I will draw when I can. Because its fun. And I love Christmas. And I want to draw fifty billion Christmas pictures. Yes. God I love Hollidays, but it takes so much time and work to prepare for :P

At least I get to stand on the roof of my house in the cold for about an hour to put up Christmas lights, which is always fun. (im not fully being sarcastic here, I love heights, so it is pretty fun, though it does get pretty cold up there)

Anyway, just wanted to let yall know I might be uploading less stuff for a while. So happy holidays, and good luck to those also approaching their finals week, I hope you survive.

Look at these precious photos of cuteness! (My cat Ginger is here too :P)

And last but not least...

XD

I just felt like showing pictures of this little sweetheart, who for some reason likes to stick her head in shoes and play with anything and everything. xD

If I ever post more pet pics (for whatever reason) you guys will find I own a LOT of pets. Well, if you count having four indoor pets as a lot.

Three cats, (Ginger who is my cat, Oki who along with Sushi are my older sister's cats) and our old dog Sparky, whose been around for most of my life and still goin' strong (I seriously cannot believe how much energy he has at 11 or 12 years old)

Sooo yeah...I just wanted to share the cuteness because, why not ? :P

Hope yall'r having a nice day :D

Soooooo this is different...

I started writing a new story after about...oof its been three years of not writing anything new. (I'd been writing a story that I started when I was eleven...it wasn't very good xD) anyway I thought I'd share what I have so far of this new story, which is basically a teaser or foreshadowing of what the story will be.

Its not much, and I have no idea if its any good because im way out of practice... Ugh I feel like it sucks xD its probably at the least really cheesy, but I tried my best :P (also know this is still a rough draft so I might not keep any of it... its a work in progress)

.........

Pain.

Pain is the only thing he could ever feel. It coursed agonizingly through his veins, always tracing back to the heart, where it blazed like the fiery pits of hell.

It's always been this way.

How could life not be like this? Does not everyone feel the horror that drowns him? All he could feel is hate, the only thing that this world has ever given him. He glares down through the glossy gold-rimmed window, his tired crystal blue eyes piercing the backs of children below.

As they laughed and horseplayed with pure innocent joy in their small faces, he realized he had never gotten to experience this beautiful happiness. Why did the world curse him so? Every living thing was filled with the wonderful lifeblood of the heavens, every plant, animal, and citizen. They all had their "gifts", except for him.

The only person in the history of the world, who could live without a single drop of Lifeblood. He looked up at his faint reflection. The messy dark blue hair, the face wrinkled from weeks without sleep, the stupid lab coat he still put his faith into. He loathed every bit of it.

Roaring in anger, he bashed his fist through the glass. He gazed at his bloodied fist for a split second, realizing the stupidity of what he had done, and collapsed in agony. Children screamed down below as a shower of glass rained down on them. With trembling hands, he tore the glass shards from his fist and quickly searched his pockets. His tremoring fingers fumbled with a needle until he thrust it into his arm. He inhaled sharply through his teeth, letting the painkiller take its course. The pain and trembling ceased. He let out a breath of relief. For him, every injury felt like a death blow.

The doctors had given him the painkillers, saying it would help ease his everlasting torment.

They lied. 

There wasn't a single medication in this world that could cure him. He was a medical mystery. The one who stumped them all. The oddity. The problem.

Why did they even try?

A small ‘ding’ rang from his pocket. He took out his Communicator to see a national news post. Curious and willing anything to take his mind off the pain, he brought it up. His expression changed from mild surprise to shock, the Communicator dropping from his frozen hand. Plans and blueprints filed through his mind, something other than pain cycled through his veins for the first time in a decade. He bolted to his workshop to start composing his ideas, the headline still imprinted in his mind.

“Ten-year-old girl found to hold more Lifeblood than two full-grown men.”

..........

Let me know if ya guys like it, or if ya have any suggestions for how I can make this better :D

-A lil' Meg tryin' her best :P

Alright I got me lots of stuff to talk about and finally find time to talk about it so here we go!

I'm going to start making a few changes.

(there not super big they're mostly style changes so if you don't really care about that stuff you can go on and skip ahead)

Participating in Inktober has shown me that I draw a lot of the same stuff and I don't explore too much or try to expand my creativity beyond simple random character designs. I want to be able to improve my art, and not drawing anything different isnt going to help me with much. So lets change that. From now on I will be branching out a ton more to different concepts, styles, techniques, and subjects to make my art more diverse and help improve my skills!

I have a ton of Ideas for stories and fun little random arts that yall will see soon, as well as lots of experimentation. I even have a small group of new OC's.

Also earlier this morning I got a message!

Was definitely not expecting this! I don't know why/how I got picked, or what its really about...but I'm glad I get the chance to do this so thank you if someone is responsible for this! (Look I dont know how this works xD)

Finally, just a quick little thing :3

Me and a few school friends are going to have a small art contest between the four of us and I thought I'd share the sketch for it here since I wasn't planning on posting it (I mean unless y'all want to see the end result...) Anyway here's the thing!

Please remember this is just a sketch...though I have to say... I frickin love the expression. I dont know why I'm so hyped about it, I've just always admired the expressions that my expierenced family members can draw, and hope that I can draw as good someday. So when I draw something thats very expressive i get super excited. Everyone in my family is an amazing artist and here I am trying to follow in their footsteps. It kinda sets the expectations pretty high for me.

Anyway, I believe that that is all I wanted to update y'all on so im signing off for the night!

Happy November!

-MP

Im great at falling behind not only on art but also at school. So I got to deal with having to write an entire debate in one night, presenting it the next day, having to stress an extra day about which side won the debate, only to find out we lost without a single vote to our side.

Sorry about that :P I just now caught up on everything I needed to catch up on, including Inktober. Tomorrow Im going to be posting an art every hour or two, depending on how much time I have. (I already drew them so I just have to upload them all. I'm too tired to try to post them all today sooo...)

Besides having been stressed out of my mind, I've been pretty good recently, though I haven't done much besides schoolwork and hang out at a club full of video game nerds (which I am proud to be a part of, haw haw)

Hope y'all had a better week and weekend than I did! Im posting one artwork today if ya want to check it out! :3

-MP

After a week of working to post two drawings a day, I've finally caught up with Inktober! Yay! From now on I will be posting Inktober submissions that are up to date once a day, as long as I don't run into something again.

I have been getting busier and busier however, as I've been filling up my slots of free time with after school activities. So I'll have less time to work on my art than I'd like, but its doable. I'll always continue to try my best and work hard too improve my art!

I also really appreciate those who have been saying such kind encouraging words this past week, yall have been giving me the energy to keep going at stressful times. :D

Thank you all for sticking with me and my slowly improving art. I know it's not great, and I'm really surprised people are actually interested in some of the things I've made.

Thanks again to all those tuning in, I really appreciate ya.

See ya later!

-MP