personal website

Hi voters! Stardance isn’t the greatest for devlogging art, so read my blog post instead! https://orangishcat.neocities.org/blog/personal-website/

Just some small changes since then.

• I’ve made the background less orange and instead blue. The orange theme was making the orange background look terrible, so I changed it to blue, which matches better with the color of a night sky.
• Updated the games list. As it turns out, there’s a lot of cool games out there!
• Added more links to the Links part of the sidebar.

Hi voters! Stardance isn’t the greatest for devlogging art, so read my blog post instead! https://orangishcat.neocities.org/blog/personal-website/

everything is done!!! I added background art with the Moon and stars, and added my blog posts to the right sidebar!

it took like an hour to debug all the issues with the MDX integration and UI layout, but it was mostly successful and super worth it!

Hi voters! Stardance isn’t the greatest for devlogging art, so read my blog post instead! https://orangishcat.neocities.org/blog/personal-website/

the website is pretty much done! All the content and whatnot is complete, I just need to add some blog posts to fill up the blog space!

Hi voters! Stardance isn’t the greatest for devlogging art, so read my blog post instead! https://orangishcat.neocities.org/blog/personal-website/

after spending like 15 hours drawing assets and staring at a wall trying to think of stuff, i have finally started coding. not all the assets are done yet, but i need to start coding so i don’t keep staring at a wall…

anyway, ima talk about coding. css grid is so cool! you can do all sorts of layouts so easily, and tailwindcss + css grid tricks make developing quite a breeze. really cool stuff!

Hi voters! Stardance isn’t the greatest for devlogging art, so read my blog post instead! https://orangishcat.neocities.org/blog/personal-website/

First devlog! I’ve never made a personal website before, so I want to do it right. I’m planning to go heavy with lots of art and web design.

This is my first time ever doing art, and I quickly decided to do pixel art as it’s a lot easier than digital painting.
I’ve made a few assets and am planning to do a lot more!

In the beginning it was quite rough and my drawings looked terrible, but after a few days it turned out much better than I was expecting, and I even applied some Minecraft building concepts!

Like, for example:

• Outline first, then color, then details. The final result won’t look good if the shape isn’t right.
• Details are what turns a good Minecraft build (or drawing, in this case) great. Once you think you’re done, think about what details you could add. Then repeat. You should be able to do this a lot more times than you think, and it’s how you improve your technique. The cat asset below took ~20 revisions.
• Use a reference image, or multiple. Don’t reinvent the wheel.
• Learn basic color theory, it’s really useful.

Other than that, it just took some creativity and some trial and error.