Hi there,

There will be no content updates for the month of April, but that's only because we're hard at work redesigning the Yoshi Art Forums (YAF) completely with a whole new and modern forum system, with tons of new features. All of this will be rolled out at the same time; That is why the forum right now still looks the same as it always has. But a very major change is coming within a month. Once this huge project is out of the way, we will resume making content updates.

Thanks to everyone who has donated something; We have not forgotten you, we're just really busy right now with the "forums" part of the site.

Hello all,

It is me, Soul. I have decided to take over for a while. I am restructuring the whole site, upgrading it and preparing it for the future. I have a number of ideas in my head for a few surprises, which I will not discuss yet because I still have to figure them all out.

Today I have added some long-due content. I have added screenshots of Yoshi in Smash Bros. Brawl, and a few official artworks (25 images total). Also added were 2 animated gifs; Both are the same one, but one has double the number of frames. And finally, I also added 5 new wallpapers.

As always, all of the new content can be easily identified with the "" gif next to it.

If you find any official Nintendo artwork that is not on our site, please be sure to send me a link to it! Thank you very much for your continued interest =)

Well, today is the first of February and just as I promised I have come to make a content update.

First off we have some Videogame mp3s kindly donated by forum member Cryoshi. There are two new additions to the library, the first being Yoshi's Island: DS. This set comes right from the hand-held version of Yoshi's Island for the Nintendo DS, and features all new music for the entire game. Having never played the game yet, I was expecting them to be very similar, if not the same, to the music from the original Yoshi's Island (SNES). I was surprised to find that the DS music was similar, but entirely different from the original. So, enjoy that collection from another classic entry in the Yoshi series. =D

The second set of mp3s added are from Yoshi Touch & Go, another game for the Nintendo DS. It features baby Mario once again with some interesting game play, involving making clouds on the bottom screen to guide baby Mario as he falls from the sky on the top screen. I can't say much else as I've never played that before either, but if you like it and want the songs that go with it, they are there for you.

You can find both sets, as well as all our other mp3s here: Videogame mp3s

And finally I have a couple Wall Papers Wall papers donated by [insert name here]. (I can't for the life of me remember who sent them. XP ) The first new one is a Nintendo Original art work for Yoshi's Island: DS, featuring almost the full Yoshi color spectrum, and comes in three sizes. The second picture is also from YI:DS. You can find them near the bottom of this page: Yoshi Wallpapers Look for .

Hope everyone has a great February, and a Happy Valentine's day! Until next time...

HAPPY NEW YEAR! *bricked for being a week late*

Yes, I know, New Years day, and the first of the month of course, was LAST Tuesday. I missed the chance to wish a Happy New Year on the proper day, and to make an update as well on the proper day too. Among a few New Years resolutions, I'm going to make Updating on the 1st of the month one of them. If you've made one, I hope you'll stick to it! Going by what Dino Dude mentioned last year, 75% of people will have given up by the end of this month. Surprising?

I had planned to upload a couple new wallpapers from Yoshi Island DS, but then I wanted to upload mp3's as well. I've decided to make a big-ish update for February ON TIME, since I lazily forgot this month. What a way to start the new year, huh? (BAD Mafioshi, BAD!)

In other news, for the past few months, Head Admin Soul, Forum Admin GameFreak38, and Site Admin Mafioshi (myself xD) have been discussing the possibility of changing to a new forum software. Progress has been slow in getting it done, however, due to real life commitments on everyone's part. The Global Moderators have been learning to use the new forum software at a mock up forum set up by former Admin Dino Dude. The new forum is most likely going to be using Simple Machines Forum software. It was chosen because it was the only free forum software that had a converter for YaBB 2.1, our current forum software, and it would also make an easy upgrade to PhpBB 3.0 when it is released out of beta.

We're hoping that a switch to a more stable forum software may reduce drain on the server, and hopefully help to avoid those nasty "CPU QUOTA EXCEEDED" mesaages that pop up a couple times a month from the site being so active during peak times. If the new forum does not work to reduce CPU usage, our only other alternative would be switching website hosts, an option we'd rather try to avoid.

So, I hope everyone had a good New Years, and enjoyed your vacation time. (If you're still in school that is. Those of us out of school had to work. =[ ) See you next month.

Merry Christmas to everyone out there who celebrates this wonderful holiday of giving and family. I hope Santa paid a visit to those good boys and girls out there. I know Santa Yoshi paid US a visit last night!

Yes, Yoshi Art's Second Annual Secret Santa gift exchange has finally arrived. For those unfamiliar with the event, members in the forum signed up around November to participate in an Artistic Gift exchange, in which members were secretly paired up. Each participant was to make a form of artistic gift for their 'Santa', which could have been a form of drawing, or a written work, as many of our members are more adept at writing than drawing. Then, around December 20th, members were to turn in their gifts to Forum Admin GameFreak38, who in turn handed them over to me for upload and display on the site. And finally, here they are: YA Secret Santa 2007

A big Thanks to everyone who participated in the event, and an even bigger Thanks to GameFreak38 for organizing the event. We couldn't have done it with out all of you! I hope everyone's day is filled with great fun and joy.