Osaka 2024-12-07 17:40:10

To be honest, based on your art you've submitted to the portal, none of it stands out as particularly impressive or groundbreaking. Not that it has to be revolutionary, but there's a sea of submissions in the art portal that have very similar styles.

If you're looking to reach a bigger audience and gain more support from others on Newgrounds, you'll have to do something that stands out at least a little bit.

Keep improving and try to bounce around fresh ideas you can incorporate into your work :)

thepixelizer 2024-12-07 18:20:36

There is no algorithm on Newgrounds by the way. Everyone sees everything.

Don’t feel too bad, since there’s no algorithm everything is hand picked based off of what Tom Fulp likes.(the founder of Newgrounds) So it’s super biased.

I never got an art piece front paged. And I’ve been on here for fifteen years at one point Tom was even one of my fan as well, still zilch.

All you get is a badge and you’re only up there for like a super short time.

This is from experience of getting one of my movies front paged.

Sure it’s great but if you’re here for money and fame you seriously should reconsider.
Everyone’s on here for fun.
If you want to get payed so bad why not use a freelancing site like Fiverr or Upwork?

Osaka 2024-12-07 19:00:57

To answer your reply on my comment, here's a comprehensive collection of guides & tutorials from @Yatsufusa - there's lots of helpful stuff in there that you can sift through and see what suits your areas of creation that need improving :)

https://www.newgrounds.com/collection/330234/guides-tutorials-other-help

thepixelizer 2024-12-07 19:12:09

@Ryantenrec
Cause there are only 7,000 people using this site on a daily basis that’s not a lot of customers or fans, there’s no credit system to share money with, you can’t get ad revenue.
Most people that want to get serious about getting payed only use newgrounds to build an audience and get exposure then they leave to other sites that will actually pay them.

Tom can’t even get enough of us to pay supporter to keep the sight running, also it seems like every major Kickstarter campaign started here all under performed epically. People on here just don’t want to pay unless it’s nsfw.

Also isn’t art supposed to be about enjoying making it and expressing yourself? Sure you can make good art for money but then it just turns into content eventually.

thepixelizer 2024-12-07 20:27:42

@Ryantenrec
It's good to have goals, but look how miserable wanting to be rich and famous is making you. You post almost every day expressing how miserable you are and all the fans and views you don't have, and you're mental health is declining in each post.

Art shouldn't make you miserable. And the only reason why it is, is because you have massive expectations. You're caught up in a future that hasn't happened yet or may not happen at all instead of being in the moment and appreciating how many fans and views you do have.

That's one of the consequences of having a base all about fame and fortune. I've tried it, and all it leads to is massive burn out and even worse mental health. Either you're just going to end up quitting or you just might snap. I've been on here for fifteen years and most of all of the guys who have thousands of fans don't even make content anymore.

I used to have 230 fans I was working hard every day, I programmed my own website, had a million projects, and just like the rest I snapped and quit.
I deleted my account all of my art and my backups too, and the huge hoard of comics that I made my entire life. I got so messed up that I was terrified to even pick up a pencil for months.

It may sound backwards given all the propaganda Hollywood crams down our throats, but sometimes you have to drop things to gain things.
Now that fans don't matter to me anymore I can make art every three months or when ever I feel like it, some times not at all. It just took all that pressure I was under and it just erased it.

Now when ever I get thirty views or even ten I'm happy not disapointed.