CW: Very lewd (sexualized nudity++). Gay (fantastically—human/monster—with male genitalia). Smutty without obvious romance. Somewhat old and reposted from offsite, so might've been seen already.

I want to know what stars it's been given to determine if I should post anything to the Art Portal again. Hasn't seemed worthwhile in the past ten months.

Oh, okay. Thank you!

Are we supposed to be able to rate our own art? I'm not really familiar with anything around here, but I was surprised when I accidentally gave myself five stars (adjustd down to three until I go to the page where I can remove votes).

Something else I'm trying to figure out: How small is too small for an art thread in the forums?

Obviously, we deal with tiny images...

😜 😪 😈 😆✨

and previews...

Does it matter what type of image or animation it is?

With a test of a few images, I've confirmed the new multi-image upload feature is a decent option. The icon is presented smaller than its actual size instead of staying the same or filling up the space, but that maybe will be change while problems with the site update are worked out.

Still, I'm surprised there seems to be zero discussion about small images on Newgrounds—at least none that I'm finding in the forums. Like, what was the smallest dimensions people were comfortable uploading before? Were the works magnified for uploads? Were there complaints or confusion?

I have trouble believing no one has been sharing micro visual art on their own pages.

Hi. I would like suggestions for posting very small canvases in Art, Animation, or Games to avoid the submission being visually lost on the page or annoying viewers.

For art, is it better to make a collage? Add to the Dump area for News posts instead of the Art Portal?

Should the animation and games have false screens as borders?

Are there helpful options I'm not thinking of or noticing?

The timing of this is amazing. I've been trying to find more sites for webcomics for myself and for experienced comic creators uncomfortable with where they've been.

But, unsurprisingly, not all changes were good. I would like to add my voice to the crowd asking for the return of dimensions/sizes. I've been missing those, especially when looking at pixel art.

Another problem is with thumbnails. I know that has attention on them, so I guess this is another report: The icon for my older work changed. I was asked why it was showing the full image (in contrast to the icon that hides sexual nudity).

Awesome.

Are multiple entries allowed?

Is there any way to convince someone to put a note on that page? It's currently misleading.

The secret is in using line tools then smoothing out where the lines roughly meet up pixel by pixel.

My latest example of a drawing done this way: https://art.ngfiles.com/thumbnails/3035000/3035919_full.webp?f1675902954 (The Mature rating was assigned because of "Some nudity" that's not explicit and actually child-friendly. (The ratings here are strange.))

I'm getting the same error clicking on my art links there.

Does this mean we should ignore the Projects area?

You clearly don't know what "Antifa" is, and sorry to say, it does show.

Hints: You're usually not going to be able to pick a self-identified Antifa protestor out in an image unless they're holding an explicitly anti-fascism sign and say that's how they identify. When you see someone in an image who's heavily armed while wearing all black and trying to scare regular people, that's probably a Proud Boy.

I'm pretty sure you also don't know how to recognize Black Lives Matter protestors. The photos in my link were mostly for the Party for Socialism and Liberation, which has a much broader scope.

To see the angrier protestors against police killings who include dedicated anti-fascists, see the Stop Cop City people in Atlanta.

So it's easy to find: "What is ‘Cop City’? How opposition to an Atlanta police center prompted national demonstrations" (NBC News) overlapping with the other protests. Georgia's Brian Kemp has a problem with the Defend the Atlanta Forest, too. The neighborhoods that will be heavily affected by the destruction of the forest (for yet another unnecessarily massive police complex in the state) are primarily Black.

I was watching a Same Does Art video and was disturbed when he mentioned that the profile piece he was working on took an hour. He spent only like half an hour on another day doing edits until he declared the piece finished. The way he described his process, he acted like that was normal for digital artists.

My last two drawing / painting / whatever-digital-art that's not "digital design" took closer to a total of 12 hours each not counting the initial reference prep. (The one that's in my Gallery is from an inked paper sketch while the most recent, not yet published, is based on a photo.) Some of this was because I had to relearn a bunch of techniques and figure out how to use program tools. But some of it was redrawing and making corrections.

All of the digital work was done with a keyboard and the touchpad mouse on my laptop. (My laptop's case is also damaged, so I had to deal with the mouse not working well the entire time. Making do with what I've got....)

Are other methods easier? Thinking back on working with acrylics, pastels, coloring pencils, physical pens on paper, vector art on a desktop touchscreen and with a wired moused, photo manipulation, and finger-painting on mobile touchscreens....

Yeah, probably, for anything that's not pixel art where every pixel matters.

The results are different depending on what's used. I like the grittiness from pixelation that come out in the "Gargoyle" piece. I don't have line precision on my phone. Non-digital art is a pain to keep intact, undamaged, and accessible for me these days.

But when I imagine sitting down and making what I want within only two total hours....

I'm going to look into ibis Paint X.

I didn't know I was wandering into the Politics section of the forums, but the topic title caught my attention. It surprised.

I'm grateful I saw it. Now I know what's been missing in headlines and conversations this past week.

And I've seen what kind of people are here.

This is the first I'm hearing of the protests despite looking at the news everyday, and it's from someone referring a shit rumor mill owned by a British lord. This goes to show how information spreads these days.

My first reaction to news of the protests: Good. The power differential between the wealthy politicians and their corporate friends against everyone else (and especially those targeted by murderous police every day) in this country is so bad that we need more and more visible protests. Though, this rise-up seems unusually sad now that I'm looking, because I see so much deep grief. The protestors this time around have likely been continuously fighting for survival since 2020.

My second thought was that the governors who are always eager to declare a state of emergency when it can give them more power over military forces and their state's economic systems of course jump at the chance when the protests are in their states.

Unfortunately, White supremacists in this country are known to escalate anti-racist and anti-fascist protests into riots to give more power to Republican police states. (This is well documented, so maybe use this opportunity to train your search algorithms better by looking up what I'm mentioning here.)

For anyone willing to see what the protests actually look like:

• Photos at ABC News: https://abcnews.go.com/US/photos/photos-americans-respond-tyre-nichols-police-video-96733213/image-96733719

• Photos at NPR.org: https://www.npr.org/sections/pictureshow/2023/01/27/1152198276/photos-protests-tyre-nichols-memphis-police

• Description from Texas's Dallas News, including an explanation of what the protests are about: https://www.dallasnews.com/news/2023/01/27/protest-planned-at-dallas-police-headquarters-tonight-following-tyre-nichols-video-release/