Wooo new month new update! I feel like my other banners (the ones actually featuring Sats, lol) don't get as much love, but then again folk probably don't realize the uh... links to them admittedly. ^^; I should update my current display banner anyhow! Maybe for the next update!
■ [NEW]
The Sketchlog and Illustration Gallery have both had complete revamps! They display a lot closer to how I’ve wanted them to for a while now. Archived word from past years now displays in text-based hyperlinks with short descriptions (inspired in no small part by
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zarla 's old sites, specifically the shrines that used to be on
MSP, the
NPLU and
IGTKY art galleries! I’ve always been fond of this simple layout and it’s a lot easier than fussing with thumbnails or light boxes (I know, I know, a light box should technically not be that hard but ultimately, I think the plain hyperlinks stay more in line with my pared-down oldweb design and frankly I’m lazy, if this will give me less excuses to update the site itself more regularly then I’m more than happy to keep it boring, nyaha!)
I used to have such a blast exploring mysterious image galleries on fansites and personal domains back in the day, each link was like a little surprise haha!
The Sketchlog should have considerably more work in it, including some recent fanart, nearly everything I’ve posted here before under my access-only sketch dump posts and lots of old, never shared before works, so have fun checking everything out!
The image gallery itself also looks much nicer I like to think. While it was cool, I did wind up scrapping the little sample preview window, it was getting a bit tiresome/tedious to make a new preview crop for each piece I uploaded and since my tendency it to update in far and few bursts with huge dumps of content so far, it just created lots of extra work that made doing a code push or last minute update take longer than I wanted it to. Hopefully this (and the new sketchlog organization) Will make future updates and retroactively throwing up more old sketches a lot easier!
In the new gallery, I’ve retained the sidenav much like I did for the sketchlog (only with better organization and some decluttering for the new year!) but now each bullet link goes to an individualized page to display the selected artwork AND offer artist commentary and bonuses like links to my drawing music, WIP shots and process notes!
Maybe I’ve sacrificed one time-consuming process for another in the end, but frankly I’ve long been meaning to add something like this, I’ve modeled it a bit after some of the things I enjoyed about my DeviantArt days, the space to ramble about characters, add story notes, links, even include individualized “scraps” like screenshots and WIP updates I normally just spam directly towards the eyeballs of my friends! This is just as much for me as it is (I’m hoping) a fun little bonus for any visitors interested in my art, a little bit of artist commentary and record of new techniques I’m learning and maybe even links to some brushsets or other assets I use in programs like clip!
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Finally got around to adding more to the site! First up, artists:
Sadistic Mode Web – Every Fujo on here will probably know the iconic artwork of the writer-artist duo Tohru Kousaka and Hitoyo Shinozaki. Now I’ve officially got their banner up! :D
Range Murata – Well known character designer and artist of Last Exile fame!
Jo's Playground – A beautiful older art gallery with some beautiful older works from the artist Jo-chen!
Next up some cool Oldweb finds and Internet security/anonymity tips and tricks!
Image Scrubber – A useful tool you can use to upload and censor images of people’s faces and remove metadata from photos taken with your phone. Originally designed for protesters in order to keep them safe and protect their anonymity.
Anonymize your Internet Footprint – From the same folks who created the image scrubber above, a good list of tips and tricks for keeping your digital foot print small and keeping your data safe!
Ninties.website – A website created in the style of internet pages from the Web 3.0 era or the 1990’s. Collects webrings, hand coded oldweb style web pages and still existing pages from yesteryear
The Internet Archive’s Gifsearch – Interested in making a retro style website? Looking for just the right blinkie to toss into your blog? Try searching for something through the wayback machine’s gif-based search engine!
The Ministry of Knowledge – I featured this one in my last link dumps but now it’s officially plastered on the site! An interesting little collection of old websites hosted together in one collective known only as The Ministry~! Contains the og Quick and Dirty Guide to Japanese!
Oh, before I forget:
I got this super cute Twelve Kingdoms mini-desk calendar for the new year from Shinchosa’s
30th anniversary merch section (lord this series has no merch, happy day! All the useless knickknacks I could want!) with the new chibis designed by Akihiro! I’ll post pics of the February image next month! <3
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