As I've been accumulating more and more art supplies, I was starting to realize that things had gotten a bit disorganized and it was becoming more of a hassle to find the things I was looking for, so I started thinking about how I wanted to organize my drawing tools. In this blog post, I'll go over what my goals were in organizing my supplies, what I've settled on, and why it works for me. I'll also go into a bit of detail about the specific tools I use in case anyone's curious, but I'd like to remind anyone who's looking for advice about what to use for your own artmaking that I am very much an amateur at this, so you probably shouldn't listen to anything I say. Also, this is what I've found works for me, and you might find other things work better for you. That said, let's get to it.
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MiscCommentIt's been a while since I've posted any updates here. Work's been kicking my butt lately and I've been too exhausted to get my creativity on. I'm going to force myself to sit down and start drawing things whether I feel like it or not, so hopefully I'll have some more art to show soon.
In the meantime, I got a new phone. My old Nexus 4 was slowly dying, so I bought a shiny new Nexus 5X. A new phone means a new theme, so I created a new icon set for the app folders on my home screen. The icon set I created for my Nexus 4 was designed to match the default theme in Beautiful Widgets, but for this new set, I followed Google's material design guidelines. The center graphics in each icon are based on Google's material icons set.
It's a small set that only includes the icons you see here, so I doubt anyone but me is going to find it very useful, but if you want to use it, you can download the images here. If there's demand for it, I might expand this icon set in the future, so while I won't make any promises, if you want an icon in this style that isn't included, let me know what color and graphic you want, and I'll see what I can do.
Is this thing on? *tap* *tap* *feedback tone*
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Welcome to my little corner of the web.
For anyone who somehow found their way to this page and has no idea who I am, hi! I'm Aelussa. That night elf you see in pictures around the site is also Aelussa: my namesake, my main WoW character, and a focal point of most of my online identity for the last decade or so. That fact should probably be more embarrassing to me than it is. (Don't tell her I said that. She has daggers, and they're stabby.) Oh, you can also call me Chris. Real names are a thing people do on the internet these days, I guess.
I'm trying to be an artist and a game creator, and I created this website as part of an effort to motivate myself to get off my butt, stop slothing around, make more things, and finish the projects I start on. The idea being that maybe if I have a place to show off the stuff I make, I'll be more likely to keep making it. Will it work? Who knows! There's only one way to find out.
You can navigate the site via the menu bar at the top. It's a bit content bare at the moment and not all of the pages have things on them yet. I'm working on it. In the immediate short term, most of the things I put up are probably going to be sketches, drawings, and Mario Maker levels. (Please star my levels if you like them.) Longer term, I have some bigger game projects I'm working on that I'll talk more about when I have something I'm ready to show. I might also use this blog for writing and discussing topics I'm interested in when inspiration strikes. If you're on Tumblr, I'll probably be re-posting everything from this blog there (because this platform makes it easy to do that, so why not?) and I'm also going to try to be more active on Twitter than I have been.
Okay, now that the introductions are out of the way, time to get to work. I just hope you're not reading this a year from now and this post is still the only thing on this site.