rosarjc’s ultimate recap 2023 and 2024

Hey, hey, hey, It’s me rosarjc, it was hard to write this letter because, first I’m not a native English speaker, second there’s a lot of things that happened this year, and the year before this.

The people who doesn’t know my story, don’t worry it will not take a lot of your time, I’ll try to be brief, and of course I’ll focus in the main points.

If you look carefully, my account was created at December 6th in 2023, so my account is more or less one year and one month old, but in this year and one month I’ve uploaded “104 pieces of art”, and to be fair 12 of them are comics, and some of them have the version in Spanish, so there are 6 comics, the HERSSANA project has 118 pages and 31 in miscellaneous comics (at my knowledge), unfortunately the HERSSANA project need a reset, oh well, there’s a lot of art, anyway HERSSANA is a project I want to put all my efforts until the end of my life, maybe it may take more time, but the quality it’s the most important to me, also I want to start accepting commissions to finance the project, I don’t want to open a Patreon or Ko-fi (yet), I don’t thing I am a big artist to have those kind of accounts 😅.

In this recap, I want to make my personal list, of the best pieces I’ve ever made in this year in order of publication and why those pieces are important for me.

1st. The piece that started everything: The Final and my Sloth

This comic was my entry for the Sweet Sixteen Comic Contest, hosted by @KittyHawkMontrose, this contest motivated me to draw again after years of avoiding the drawing. If the contest hadn't happened, my Newgrounds account would never be created. Also I met @KittyHawkMontrose here, and currently we have a good relationship.

2nd. The piece when I started to meet amazing people: What does a wild sylveon eat?

This Illustration was made for the Pokémon Mystery Meat Collab, hosted by ---------- and @whimsical-wife. Besides meeting ---------- and @whimsical-wife, I met @Creeperforce24 and @EmsDeLaRoz. And currently I’m keeping a good relationship with @whimsical-wife, @Creeperforce24 and @EmsDeLaRoz.

3rd. The piece to think about our planet: Earth Day 2024

This piece includes a little comic, a brief one but I am very proud of this one.

4th. Cassy: An Unexpected Meeting

In this illustration I drew Cassy for the first time.

5th. A piece about chatting: Chatmonkeys | Kittyhawkmontrose

An Illustration about KH’s Lore.

6th. Polishing a jewel: Meiss Mayer | 01

One of the best inking I’ve ever made, and almost final version of my OC, Meiss Mayer.

7th. A Gorgon Issue: Gorgon Shield

I don’t know how I got the patience to draw this.

8th. Sexy Pokémon Ladies: Pokémon Ladies | Pokemon Gijinka Collab

Entries for The Pokémon Gijinka Collab, hosted by @KittyHawkMontrose, The Venusaur Lady (Uploaded originally in Jun 17th, 2024), The Vulpix Lady (Uploaded originally in Jul 7th, 2024) and Spinda Ladies (Uploaded originally in Oct 26th, 2024).

9th. A beautiful banner: EmsDeLaRoz | Banner

This is a gift for @EmsDeLaRoz, one of the best banners I’ve ever made.

10th. A Divorce Agreement: Whimsical Wife | Fanart

Wife cat’s Lore, @whimsical-wife ‘s OC.

11th. An Egg’s Issue: OviVixen | Fanart

This Illustration is a gift for @OviManic, in this wallpaper was inspired in the indie game called OviVixen (Master Demo) made by @OviManic, and of course @OviManic is the creator. I love this project, even if I don’t consider myself a gamer, or at least a good gamer, I love the characters.

12th. CF24 in the metro: Challenger | Creeperforce24 collaboration

An Illustration for @Creeperforce24, for his song called "Challenger".

13th. Look that inking: Meiss Mayer Ninja | Ninja Collab!

I mean look that inking, I can’t believe I drew that.

14th. Summergrouns. Miscellaneous pieces. For the summergrounds, I dreaw many pieces but my favorites are these:

15th. New Spain is no more: Mexican Independence Day Collab | My Entry

I’m Mexican, and I spent 2-3 hours drawing this.

16th. Robot Day: Robot Day 2024 | Robot Dreams

I love Robot Dreams movie, if you had a chance watch it.

17th. Please, read this little comic, It won’t take a lot of your time: rosarjc's +100 followers special | Backstage + Brief history of HERSSEN TALES.

Please, seriously.

18th. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°).

19th. Meiss Mayer, Meiss Mayer, MEISS MAYER: Meiss Mayer is Beetlejuice! | Happy Halloween 2024

A special I made for Halloween.

20th. A Creeper in the forest: Dark Woodlands | Song Cover

A song cover I made for Creeperforce24.

21st. Halftones: Color test | Meiss Mayer

I bought Halftones brushes, and this is the first test.

22nd. Opia-Opia: Ovi Vixen End of the Year Contest | Is this the end of our Hero?

This is one is in my personal top, I put all my effort in this illustration. Also, this is my entry for the Ovi Vixen End of the Year Contest, hosted by @OviManic.

23rd. Merry Christmas Newgrounds 2024

And this is the end of the best pieces I’ve ever made, honestly I had no idea how many collabs I’ve been, but here you can get the idea:

In this year. When I started in Newgrounds, I was alone, too alone, and no one followed me, publishing here gave me a new perspective of talents and works over the world, and now, looking back, I can see how much I grew up, we are over 250 people. Newgrounds is my favorite website and I would choose it again. And easily I can say this year is the best year of my life.

Thank you again my beloved followers.

Special thanks to:

@KittyhawkMontrose

@Creeperforce24

@EmsDeLaRoz

@whimsical-wife

@Nebulate

@OviManic

For inspiring me in this website.

Everyone I wish you a wonderful New Year.

Photo of my vacation, I will spend the New Year on the beach :)

Twitch

As you know, I'm hosting a giveaway. The prize is an illustration sketched, drew, and colored live by me. Unfortunately at my knowledge... only two people decided to join 😅, don't to worry, if no one decide to join before the stream, then I'll be making the two pieces, I think I will have enough time to draw both, in the other hand if more people decide to join after this post, you are always welcome, of course you need to follow the next requierements:

See you tomorrow (Dec 20th 9PM EDT)! Remember not necessary to follow me in twitch! But I want to chat with you!

Original Post

Hello there is rosarjc, is one week left, uh... well... less than one week for the giveaway, all my followers are invited to join! In other news I'm working with Herssana, I bought special brushes to simulate the original comic colors, instead to work with RGB, I work with CMYK, It is fun to use and I made a test Illustration to see how it looks, I need your honest opinion because I want to use it in my next comics:

and I decide to join at the Ovi Vixen End of the year contest, hosted by @OviManic, take a look!

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if you don't have any ugly xmas sweater, I'll do a simple sweater with your with your character's color palette.

Hello there beautiful people from the internet, I really apologize for the inactivity. I have a life offline, and a lot responsabilities, Fortunately the school is over and I can make Illustrations again.

H E R S S A N A

One person asked me before this post about my comic, okey about the comic I want to say next thing:

Herssana will take more time for this reason, I want to make the full script of the comic, I really invested my time in studying story telling, because I want to make something special, that means a second re-start, this re-start going to talk the beginning of the Herssen empire, starting with Meiss Mayer's mother and how Meiss Mayer became Meiss Mayer, I think is fair to talk about that first, the current Herssen Tales going to be erased to avoid misunderstandings.

I want to create a special discord only to share drawing material and things related to Herssana.

After finnish the script of Herssana, I will be able to draw a proper comic book. and I learnt to explain a lot in less panels, for example the comic Herssen tales II has a lot of pages but explains a little or nothing.

I L L U S T R A T I O N S

I want to make commissions, but I don't know how to start. Any advice is welcomed and I don't know exactly how much to charge per one illustration.

1 Y E A R

1 year in Newgrounds, awesome.

Thank you everyone <3 -rosarjc

Hello there beautiful people, it's me rosarjc. Sorry for the inactivity but school is killing me. Anyway, my Newgrounds account is almost 1 year old and I want to host a special giveaway and draw it live. What do you think? Also I'm working in some fanarts.

Hello there, is rosarjc, sorry to took forever to publish something here, but the comic "Brief history of HERSSEN TALES" is finally here, I'm willing to share more of my creations with all of you. And this is the +100 follower special true ending, I decided to draw the not winners, first because I sketched it with that intention, second is because, only 10 people decided to join. The detail is I drew them off stream, and took one month to have an result. Anyway I enjoyed a lot to doing this, Thank you everyone for waiting, and I'm always grateful for the new followers. and if you are new here, I'm just only a busy man who draws comics (or sexy ladies) in his free time.

Special thanks to:

@Creeperforce24

@KittyhawkMontrose

@OviManic

@EmsDeLaRoz

for inspiring me, 

@Creeperforce24

@KittyhawkMontrose

@OviManic

@53xy83457

@Gribby450

@TheOve

@Charlie57913

@aapiarts

@Nebulate

@FunnyPlush

for joining in the giveaway, and thank you all my beloved followers.

Maybe I'm going to start doing commisions, if someone is interested in 😉, and see ya!

-rosarjc