Advice & Tutorials

I often share my thoughts & answer questions about making art, I will be collecting these posts on this page.

Please note that these won't be step-by-step tutorials, I'm more interested in teaching understanding why you might do something a particular way and encouraging you to make your own choices than trying to tell you how to do things! As such, I tend to think of them more as a collection of my thoughts.

Feel free to comment if you have any questions or need clarification! And if these thoughts I share are helpful to you, perhaps consider leaving me a tip on ko-fi.

My Thoughts On:

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Below are some posts that I'd like to revisit at some point. While I might not be 100% satisfied with them, they'll hopefully still be helpful for you!
Drawing With 3d Models :: 01 Jan 2023 Painting Light With The Curves Adjustment :: 09 Mar 2022 Creating Lineless Art :: 19 May 2021 Creating Dynamic And Interesting Poses :: 19 May 2021 Tackling Creative Blocks & Burnouts :: 01 Mar 2021 Creating Pixel Art :: 04 Feb 2021 Drawing Webbed Wings :: 13 Nov 2020

6 comments

Curious Coder

I’d love to know or otherwise get some insight into your web development process; how you made your site! I’m especially curious to know what it runs on in the backend and how you settled on a design for its frontend. (It’s gorgeous, btw!)

Reply to Curious Coder

Ah this is definitely something I’ve wanted to talk about, as I’m a strong believer in making simple webdev accessible to the layperson! But the short version is:

  • My site is a static site hosted on Netlify, I use the Eleventy/11ty SSG to make creating my webpages much simpler

  • and the design for my site is a customised version of bootstrap 5—by taking advantage of the 11ty SASS Plugin & the bootstrap SASS source code, I’ve made two custom themes for bootstrap (inspired by the solarised colour schemes bc I like them ^_^)! There’s not a lot to the design beyond that, my primary goal is to make something easy to read so I try to keep it simple & just chop the occasional corner off for some visual interest haha

Reply to Harrie
kiwi

Hi I have no idea if you check this still, and this is probably a very strange place to ask this, my apologies. I tried looking around your blog and it seemed like asks are unavailable, and unfortunately the post I’ll be referring to has been deleted so I can’t reply there either. Anyways, this is in regards to the backing up tumblr blog posts.. post. You talked about using tumblr-utils. I was in the process of going through that because I’ve been on here for over a decade and don’t want to lose everything. I just had a (probably dumb) question regarding the applying for a tumblr application to get an api key. I have like negative knowledge on this stuff and don’t really know what it’s asking for. ex: application name, application website, as well as a callback url and oauth2 redirect urls. Sorry if this is like. obvious stuff. Thanks.

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