Hi everyone! I just posted my first piece for the Art Portal, a Shaggy fanart, and wanted to talk a bit about myself, how I found out about NG and what are my plans with this account and life in general, in case new peeps find me, and just as a proper introduction, so, it's probably going to be a bit long lol

• Who are you, anyways?

I'm Franco, and Trank's my nick/username. Some friends would give me weird nicknames, we mixed two of them, and Trank was the result, it was better than any of my usernames in the past so I kept it lol

I'm from Argentina, and I look forward to meet friends here, and of course improve my skills in all the areas I end up tackling.

For now I just posted one drawing, but I look forward to improve and start posting to other portals, such as audio and games (movies too if I get decent at drawing & animating lol)

• How did you find NG?

I made this account around 2019, I think to follow Sr Pelo, one of my favorite animators, and pretty much kept popping up from time to time to lurk the art and movies section.

I don't think I had much of a past with the site prior to that, besides playing the Henry Stickmin games in other copycat websites (I played flash games quite a bit as a kid but I never heard about Newgrounds itself)

And of course, like a lot of people, I came back after a while to play FNF, and got to browse the other portals again, now being more active, leaving ratings and such.

I love the sense of community that Newgrounds has compared to other sites, and so I got really inspired to start posting my own stuff here, even though I was (and still kinda am) intimidated with other people's work, since a lot of people post amazing art pieces, and for what I see most are here mostly to work, so I don't really want to bother anyone, but I realised that shouldn't stop me to do my own things, even though it took me like a year or so to actually post anything lol

Also, I started college this year, which has been incredibly stressful, and that didn't help me to actually work on something worth posting, but hey I finally did! Even if it's not the best art piece in this site I'm proud that I finally took my first step here, and I hope it isn't the last!

• So, what's your plan?

For now I'll probably keep making fanart and OC related stuff whenever I have the time or patience, and as I mentioned like 4 times by now probably, I want to get good at music and gamedev too. For now I've been trying without much success working on FNF mods since its modding accessibility has been incredibly inspiring, and I think it's a good step for me so I can get into all areas I'll need in the future. The game's also been stuck in my head ever since I started playing it, but I wanted to post something unrelated to it as a first post to show that I still like other things lol

I also took some Unity courses and so on, but it's been a while since and I probably didn't learn much from them, so I really, really hope to bring good things to this website in the near future once I get my "adult" life sorted out a bit better.

I have a lot of respect for Newgrounds and the community around it, and with me not being too skilled yet, I felt I wouldn't belong here, but I really hope to keep improving and being an active member, so, if anyone reads this, thank you for your interest, I really appreciate it, and I hope to see you soon, wherever we meet!

Also, shoutouts to the two people that followed me without me even posting anything lol!