HELLO NEWGROUNDS I MISSED YOU SO MUCH!!!

You may be pondering my sudden activity... and I have two answers for that

First off, I have to make a speech for my final output in english for this quarter. It's about any topic we like, but knowing that we're gonna be heavily graded for it is the difficult part. I chose to make a speech about Newgrounds, for i believe not enough people in this world realize or even know how the indie animation and gamedev scene was revolutionized by all the awesome people of this site!! For goodness sake ya'll grew up playing flash games, the least you'd do is know where they came from!

And I didn't wanna JUST make a speech, I wanna feel and spiritually connect with newgrounds the way how i did back when i had free time. And honestly, the speech is kinda overdue, but i did my research far and well by hitting the sources and playing and revisiting the games here... I owe newgrounds a lot for shaping my online presence and exposing me to different kinds of people. I genuinely miss being here and it pains me to be away for so long...

But that will change once I tell you my second reason for my sudden activity: I will be graduating from highschool in a few months... time flies so fast man. I joined here back in 9th grade during "The Funkinin" where i wanted to find a place to post my Madness Day 2021 fanart (which is actually the first art piece that i posted here!) in a place that wasn't instagram or twitter... I never regretted it since

With me graduating in a few months, it means that we'll be heavily crunched in time and overloaded with a ton of work.. on the bright side, I have finished the majority of my requirements needed to be on the list of graduating students. no you don't only have to pass in all of your subjects, but submit two major portfolios (for internship and for this annoying program in our school that requires so much time and dedication to do so), and finish the entirety of your research paper for it to be ready for copyright. and let me tell you that we've been doing a fuckton of manuscripts for the past 3 years,,, yikes!

And there goes the yappings of the burnt out student... but what im saying is i have finished the brink of what i must do so my burden isnt as heavy as it was... Enough time for me to prepare for the final quarter and slowly get back to hobbies.. which means I can spend more time here on newgrounds more!! But for now, I'll just be here playing games for the time being while i slowly work on other stuff... expect to see my name in a few later collabs :))

-Shedawn

Hello Newgrounds!! Happy New Year!!

Just wanted to come by and say hello ^^

First of all, I know you're gonna be like "Aw hell nawh Shedawn we get it. School sucks and time management is not your philosophy" which I'd say is true in fact LOL... Lots of stuff has been happening these past couple of weeks -- college entrance exams, defense proposals, school events, life, discoveries, grudges, severe identity crisis and disillusion to the clutches of consumerism, and i guess plenty of more... in fact, I just turned 18 last month and when i look back, I realized how much I have grown as myself and as an artist. The more i progress into the pages of my own existence, the more I change as a person (basically that "life is like a book" typa shit) I know myself even more at the price of so many things, and I guess it ain't gonna be the last

Dwelling more into the deepest philosophies of society will drive you insane and sometimes I wish I was living life so simply without having to worry about anything... too bad that's not what i was destined for! But maybe who knows what else will be in store for me :00

So much of the greatest, god-given, and unbelievable stuff happened to me, along with some absolutely horrible shit that changed the trajectory of my existence (but hey, we gotta make sure the good overrules ig lmao)

So Newgrounds, thank you for having me here for 4 years!! Will I be more active? Idk we'll see

-Shedawn

I say this as I disappear for a couple of months again but I SWEAR TO GOD, SCHOOL IS LITERALLY UGHHHHH RN

But regardless of that, yes my gang, DawnieDrella is still alive and kicking! Just well.... burnt out from fulfilling the duties expected of an academic institution now that I have to finish 6 manuscripts in the span of a month and worry about finals and training for college entrance exams.... isn't it crazy how time flies so fast?

On and off I've been drawing and I do have a few finished pieces that I still dont feel confident to post here (but I will post em on tumblr and twitter)

OH YEAH SPEAKING OF TWITTER, I GOT MY ACCOUNT BACK IN MARCH 2024 (shout out to my irl friend oh my godddddd I thought I was a goner)

I guess I got summoned back here after hearing of the new FNF update (IT ROCKS!!), and well... I really missed Newgrounds a lot. I missed being active here and participating in collabs, rating and blamming submissions, and playing games. I just hope that someday, I'll go back to this community and reconnect with those I lost over time.

Hope ya'll have a great day. This is DawnieDrella signing out for today !!

OK I AM LIKE- A FEW DAYS LATE but I wanna say, a delayed happy holidays and a delayed happy new year !! I'm really sorry I wasn't as active here after secret santa, as I was busy spending the whole break celebrating christmas and new year with family. In fact, I've been busy with doing art during the break SINCE WELL... I joined 2 secret santas which one is held here in newgrounds and the other was from tumblr

Now this year is starting a bit more promising for my art since I'll be involved in lots of art related projects in our school and that means getting sore ass hands but being able to make lots of art in short time and recognition !!

As for my activity in Newgrounds, I think I'll go dormant again T-T but I'll try posting some art in between!!

For my socials, my Bluesky has been dormant for a while (I MEAN THERE AINT THAT MUCH PEOPLE THERE YET), I'm planning on making a new twitter account because that bitchass man child elon musk suspended me back in october for like the stupidest reason and I got my appeal rejected TWICE

So I will be active in my Tumblr, rambling about my interests AS ALWAYS (I got into resident evil recently SOOOOO) and discord but im not dropping my @ here lol

Anyways im gonna head out once again! Have a great day !!

-Shedawn :D

i made fun of elon and boom now my twitter got suspended :((( I'm just gonna chill while I wait for my appeal to be approved LMAO

Update on art: I'm severely busy right now but I promise new art is in the works of progress!! I'm trying a different kind of coloring style

UPDATE PART 2: my acc is officially suspended for real ewww musky wusky rejected my appeal so looks like i cant make a new acc unless i change my ip address

ON THE BRIGHT SIDE, I’ll be joining Bluesky to continue my journey and basically restart all over in a new but WAY BETTER AND DECENTRALIZED social media platform !!

(possibility of joining tumblr coming soon)

(blue sky acc will be created in a couple of hours, stay tuned !!)

I have nothing on hand as of the moment but i never forget

HAPPY MADNESS DAY !!!!

I will be back as soon as senior high doesnt throw me off the ledge again

In Jebus We Trust

Ok so after a lot of thinking I have decided that I'll no longer be referred as ShidoniDrella anymore, but DawnieDrella !! Why? Well it's a bit personal (which I might explain in the future) but outside of twt and newgrounds, I'm more known as Shedawn (which was somewhat derived from ShidoniDrella) and i feel like it's more unique and suits me more. I asked some peeps as well and many seem to like Shedawn more, and I find myself to love that name as well... sooo yeah

im also fine with being called dawnie, it sounds so cute ^^ but shedawn always peaks

that means my signature has officially changed and ig my persona will be called Shedawn for the rest of eternity lol (maybe once I get gifted newgrounds supporter, I can finally bade farewell to the festive nickname that my profile has been holding since 2021 and basically ShidoniDrella)

For those wonder where I've been, YES my time management is dogshit as always, but i spent june travelling out of town and spending time with my family, relatives and cousins. July is somewhat spent on doing a bit more productive irl stuff and I recently got into piano lessons again after YEARS !!! I do promise ya'll there's this 6 month wip that I'm almost finished with and once it's sent i can do MORE ART... aaaand perhaps make merch for me to sell within my town (hopefully before I return to school on late august)

most importantly, expect another redesign for Shidoni- I MEAN Shedawn (I SWEAR ITS GONNA BE GREAT THIS TIME)

Research defended, finals survived, musical performed and won with flying colors

GUESS WHO'S BACK? HELL YEAH ITS ME LOL

God it's been a heck of a month and I'm so glad the school year is over (jk I still need to finish my clearance but other than that I'm free). Now I guess that means I can slowly return to art and participate in more community art events, specifically those here in Newgrounds!! Also, due to our club selling pins and stickers last minute, it kinda motivated me to do art commissions and sell merch

aight well I do expect to post more often now that I am free from all the academic shit

HELLO HELLO

yes as you see, it's been a while since I've last posted art or even participated on this year's events

I have come with some good news and bad news.... good news is that I am at my last month of school so that means I would finally have the free time to focus on my hobbies more on the days robbed

bad news is that, our final quarter is running on a span of LITERALLY A MONTH and this month is packed with readiness exams and midterms next week. One week after is normal class but that means we have a lot of group presentations to worry about and then after that week is LITERALLY FINALS. . . and then the week after finals is when we have to prepare for our year-end school musical

Even before that, we're already so bombarded with a lot of stuff to do so I sincerely apologize if Im not able to make more content, especially for this week since it's Pico day

OMG IM SO SORRY I HAVE BEEN SUPER DUPER INACTIVE AS HELL IN THIS SITE!!!!!!!!!!! I am currently drowning from limbo to the 9th circle of hell (aka SCHOOL) and as much as how I really wanna do so many things, there's too much responsibilities and so LITTLE time :((( also not to mention my still horrible time management

I'm still working on full-fleshed pieces, but to get my creativity back I post some drawings here and there on twt that I dont post on NG