personal website
- 4 Devlogs
- 20 Total hours
including art, easter eggs, and a lot more!
everything is done!!!
the website is done!
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!
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.
