I've been debating for a while to make a post like this, as the days pass the pressure increases and i finally gave in.

My mother passed away a bit over a week ago. I want to first tell you that i'm doing fine, it's sad but i'm fine. I've got my wife, i've got my support net, and i'm feeling ok all things considered.

My mom left me and my sisters with a lot of debt -- we've already talked with 2 lawyers so far-- and the best course of action is to completely deny any inheritence, meaning that we're not getting anything from her (including debt) and this process of course, like everything, costs some money.

Me and my wife live 7 hours away from my home city where my family is and i will be travelling to spend christmas with them, but I would lie if I said i'm in a comfortable spot to do so. i'm not sure how the whole legal process is gonna go, each day I have more of an idea as we ask questions, but it's stressful. All I want right now is to know at least that I can comfortably travel to see my family and that I have some spare money to help my sisters pay the lawyer during this process.

I'm looking to raise no more than 400$ during this holiday season, and I say this number cause I don't wanna abuse anyones good intentions.

Here are ways you can support me:

INPRNT (art prints)

Patreon

UPDATE!

Everyone, thanks to a lot of familiar and unfamiliar faces i've raised over 650$ with commissions, donations and prints sold in the last 24 hours!

I can't thank you all enough, with that being said, i'm not gona be taking any more donations, as you can see i've deleted the donation link, if you still wish to support my artistic endevours my Patreon and INPRNT links are still there, you can also still commission me if you'd like, but no more donations! thanks to everyone that supported in any way possible!

Thankfully my situation isn't worse and i don't need more than this, as i stated in the text before, me and my sisters will deny my mother's inheritence wich thankfully (even if it costs money) it is a relatively affordable legal procedure, this money will be used for the legal expenses aswell as for me and my wife to travel to and back to my home city. Nothing else to say except long live Newgrounds and it's community!

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Consider DMing me here or in any of my other socials!

Hello, glad to see you survived this year, glad to see you reading my post too.

Let's have a quick talk about life. This year started with a sour taste, i was planning to move to a new city and state with my wife on january, but do to poor planning + being a little unlucky we had to postpone this, to make the matters worse we had to puppy eye our not so very nice landlady to renew our contract for another year, well that year has pretty much gone by now, we're hoping to take that step this upcomming January, hopefully learning from my mistakes and planning better i'll be in a new place very soon.

Part of this year's learning experience was handling money, a lack of it and a big influx of it, saving it, investing it, as well as finding a balance at home when one feels like it's not providing enough, i felt for the first time what it was to not have enough and lacking for one's partner, but as cliche as it sounds not everything is money, and there's multiple ways to help and feel helpful within a household and a relationship, and also like i would learn later also during this year, monetary opportunities can come unexpectedly.

(Photo of El Socorro, the small road leading to the capuchinos convent park, hopefully my new home in a couple of months)

Let's change the subject friend, and have another quick chat, this time about art!

The source of my pain or the way to handle my pains? maybe both, my love/hate relationship with art seems to still be ongoing 9 years or so after i decided to pick up a pencil after watching too much anime. While a lack of art work made doubt my self early this year, this would also be the year where i've have the biggest opportunity as of yet, making a promotional movie poster for Disney's Regency Enterprises: The Creator©. This gave me great insight and experience as to how it is to work as an independent artist for a giant coporation, and thankfully work with very understanding and kind people, i trust this opportunity wasn't a once in a life time deal, and is more so a door that opens into new territory hopefully we'll see me working on another big project like that next year!

(Final movie poster for The Creator movie)

Thanks for reading so far friend, but there's a last subject i'd like to talk about, let's talk about sickness...

Writting all of this right now, just a few hours before christmas, with probably the worst cold of my life, unable to spend this wonderful celebration with my family and instead with just my also sick wife (Oddlem), That's ok tho, while sad we gotta remember to accept things out of our control, and i wanna remind you as cliche as it is, that if you're spending christmas with your loved ones this year, as mundane as it is, as it happens every year, to care and live in the moment, you never know when's the last one you'll celebrate.

But friend i don't just wanna talk to you about this horrible cold i currently have, there's another sickness plaguing this world, this sickness of hate, lack of tolerance and understanding for one another, segregating ourselfs into rooms without words of the outside world, barking and peeling our teeth at each other while a bigger hand steals from us while we're to busy fighting. It's ok friend, there's no shame in hating, but let's not forget to also love, I love you, cause i know you're like me, you want a roof when it rains, you want food when you're hungry and you don't wanna feel alone. I love you all.

GIFT: Thank you for reading this far, you must have had a lot of free time, or maybe i actually wrote something interesting, as a token christmas gift of appriciation i grant you a 15% off discount for my INRPNT (art prints), with the code: 2V2BJQ they're already having a end of the year sale, so you can use this code ontop of their own discounts to get a giant % off, 20-35%}

Remember also i'm always open for commission work, feel free to hit me a DM if you ever feel like getting yourself some custom art. much love and merry christmas from Colombia. Chao!

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Been a slow month, consider commissioning if you're intereted, would help a ton!

ICONS 30-60$ avarage

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FULL ILLUSTRATION 110-160 avarage

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COMPLEX ILLUSTRATION 170-250$ avarage

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• I also do commercial work, if you're looking for album cover art, youtube mix art (lofi) or anything else.

So as some might or not know my twitter got hacked around 3 days ago, as scary as the experience was i tought it was over once twitter support responded my emails and got me the account back, only to be permanently suspended 2 hours after i got it back. Why? Well my theory is the account got mass reported while it was hacked, even if it was an automated error, i can't see why a ban bot from a social media wouldn't take into account the fact the account was hacked and then recovered before applying a sanction, absolute trash experience, still waiting for my twitter to hopefully get unsuspended, in the meantime or possibly forever, since from reading online twitter can take up to 8 months in unsuspending, i made another account, you can follow it if you'd like. @MatthewLopzalt

This experience also made me appriciate how personal and truly caring is the newgrounds support, in comparison shoutout to the mods and everyone that helps out.

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To finish this post i wanna say that Twitter was one of my main social media accounts and not having it def hurts me financially as it was a way of getting commissions, i wanna finish this post by sharing a few ways you can support me if you truly enjoy my art and want me to keep doing what i do!

Patreon: So far i have very little supporters so there's still plenty of ground to expand but for now you can find PSD files, full resolution artwork, print discounts and timelapses!

INPRNT: This is where you can buy prints from me.

Commissioning: My DMs and email are always open for both commercial and personal artwork, i've got plenty of experience with music related works such as lofi mix BGs and album covers.

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Big hug to the Newgrounds community and thanks for reading!

Ok so small update, i got the account back after the hack but then Twitter just after a few hours of gaining back control decided to completely suspend the account????

I guess what happened is that people started reporting it as spam but like, i had already taken back control and deleted all the RTs and tweets the account made, i have no idea why they allowed that to happen, i'm once again, contacting twitter to gain my account back...

this time from an unfair suspension.

you can check my account here:@matthewlopz

As some people may have noticed my account got hacked by a NFT project bot, just a bit ago today, i regained control of it.

It was a very short lived but scary experience, i still lost around 200 followers from the hack as people got scared, if you're one of the people that unfollowed pls consider refollowing!

I also wanna thank the people that messaged me and gave me support during this situation, it was very short but very scary.

As a last note i'll just say, please go rn and add 2 step verification to your socials, Newgrounds has the option too!

Also shoutout to @ninjamuffin99 (the muffin man) for guiding me to make my accounts more secure.

A hug and much love to everyone and be safe!

Lofi Backgrounds, album cover art or simply a drawing of your characters or a pfp for yourself!

Dm for inquieries!

(Prices start at 30$)

Every once in a while (when i got nothing to do) i do AMA's (ask me anything) on instagram but i've never done one here, is Newgrounds AMA posts a thing? well, it is now bitch. ask away

Wassup babes

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