1/October/2021 : added recommended picrew page
7/September/2021 : portfolio landing page added, art portfolio page updated, credits page modified
5/September/2021 : pixel doll page added, credits page updated & modified, diary page modified
1/September/2021 : character resources page updated, credits page updated
31/August/2021 : redesigned about page, credits page updated
29/August/2021 : fixed error with fonts page
28/August/2021 : fonts page added, credits page updated
1/January/2024
happy new year! can you believe it? we made another lap around the sun!
i am currently sick with my second bout of covid in two years. so if this post sounds weird thats because my sickness is probably making my brain foggy. i will be going back to school within a few weeks, ill be a college sophomore! i still havent decided a major - if anyones seen my moaning on twitter (i am not calling it x), ive had a lot of issues pinning down exactly what i want to do because of my ... how do you call it ... Issues, in regards to my social skills and general development.
to be honest, i dont really do new years resolutions anymore. because i think theyre kind of stupid and id always end up breaking them within two weeks... or id just end up forgetting. but if i had to pick:
be more aggressive about advertising commissions and less ashamed of my work in general
try to buy less ocs & save money for Adult Things
try to exercise more, lose some weight if im lucky
get another job and try to keep it for at least a year
MAYBE learn mmd or some other 3d program (if i can properly run mmd on my mac). i want to play with 3d models from video games like dolls
finally schedule a damn sleep study
and these arent necessarily goals but i would like to get back on adhd medication because i think thats had an impact on my grades and ability to focus (both have been worse since i got off of them). ive been off them for almost a year and it sort of shows with my art production level going down from 2022 compared to 2023. but its sort of a conflict of interest within my family because of them being " Street Drugs ". or something like that. its silly, really, because i do function better with them and it has sown before
so yeah! thats all i have to say at the moment. maybe ill remember to update this thing on the regular. hopefully
2/November/2023
GUESS WHO FORGOT ABOUT THIS... it was me. i need to update the website a little bit, the portfolio and whatnot
so i will no longer be using deviantart for the foreseeable future. this is the second time ive stopped posting there, i think? from now on, all of my artwork will be on tumblr, twitter (x) and possibly instagram. although im not too sure about instagram either
either way , i am alive and well - if you dont follow my other socials, that is. i am thinking about uploading some more fonts and doing some other fun stuff with the website, but for now i dont have any ideas. i do need to make the page on my pet cats, though, because i DO have ideas... ive really only been updating the plushie collection page. BUT! we shall see if those plans pan out
other things that have happened since my last journal entry on here:
went to disneyland, lake compounce, six flags new england, six flags america, kings island, busch gardens williamsburg & dollywood (2021-2023, no specific order)
i got my high school diploma (march 2022)
was diagnosed with hypothyroidism (2022)
i got a vet assistant certificate (november 2022)
i obtained (and lost) two jobs (2022-present)
started going to college (2023)
started a twitter profile for posting art resources, instead of having the brushes i use linked on here (october 2023)
got a bunch of new and awesome OCs
another cool awesome thing is im probably gonna get tested for narcolepsy because theres a very good chance i have it :P yah
8/September/2021
damn the fact i never properly archived or backed up my old art. anything before... mid 2011, id say, is lost to time forever unless i can find remnants of it. i am considering making a folder somewhere, maybe in google drive or something, or a separate tumblr blog to archive my old art so i can have it on hand. also damn the fact i never saved art that was made for me unless i really liked it... which is kind of an asshole move, but i was an asshole kid. what can you do. i want to kick younger mes ass though for the wasted time this has caused
anyways, i am currently working on my coding portfolio page. itll only have certain examples of my codes up, because i consider most of my themes outdated. all old codes will be avaliable on my theme blog, which will be linked on the page. itll also have my first professional website on it! very exciting things and all that
5/September/2021
over the course of a few days, ive been transfering my sozai over to this computer. its been a real pain in the ass given that my old computer is basically on life support because it hasnt been updated, but whatever. i had thought id lost a bunch of images, but they were actually in the recycling bin! so ill have to get those transfered over to. in the meantime, i can do some image updates ive been wanting to do on here.
i also finished my pixels page. it was quite a bit of work, since i dont really code with image-based tables often, but hey! its all finished. and now that i actually know how to do this... some idea possibilities have opened up. i even widened my credits page so that way it changes size based on your monitors display size like the rest of my codes!
you may also notice i changed the buttons at the bottom of this page. originally, the images from this website (alicehome) were placeholders, but ive grown fond of this layout... so until further notice its permanent. the tiny amakusa is still there, although i might colour him pink so he fits the rest of this page. otherwise, not much new is going on - i do plan on changing my tumblr theme since i have all my sozai back (i actually finished my art blogs theme while preparing this), so look forward to that
2/September/2021
haha jk im gonna make this a bit of a diary, but itll just be discussing site updates and future plans. ill figure out how to archive everything later. but anyways, at the moment i am looking for pixel sozai to use for the OC pixel page... i want it to look as old web as possible. but not having my old sozai collection makes it a bit difficult, because the websites i would ideally use are down/havent been archived, and all the images id saved are on my old computer. im even considering going for a cyworld minihompy type of look, but its very difficult to find images for the tabs/buttons. if gifcities and the web archive could save my ass right now, thatd be great, but i highly doubt it... god bless the people who saved all the images from kpop idols minihompies. they are the real heroes
anyways! i do have some plans for future layouts. for the past few days, ive been saving images from japanese websites and i found one i really like... and thats poka.twinstar.jp. once i am done the plant display layout (which i have started) ill do something with that. i also plan on doing things with some of the other sozai pages i have on my links page. its just a matter of actually doing them, really... im also going to be uploading some new fonts to my fonts page. thats about it, really
Next Hiatus : April 2024