Bi-Weekly Wednesday Newsletter no. 130 [GREETING GOES HERE] What's Going On Random Drawings study of someone else here here No idea what I was trying to do here: Maybe I'll do some landscapes some day Other stuff I've been trying to talk to more people. That's been nice. What I've been thinking about I'm not sure Mudboard will work out. I don't have many users and the interest is not strong. I'll give it one or two weeks or so more push, but it might not be wise to continue.... That really...
24 days ago • 1 min read
Bi-Weekly Wednesday Newsletter no. 129 [GREETING GOES HERE] What's Going On I didn't draw anything so I'm just gonna talk about Mudboard Mudboard It's been about 3 months and I think things have evolved. I wrote a lil article about why Mudboard should exist. So remember how I have this grid format with like a "mirror mode." It was cool, but I realized it didn't too anything too unique. random images Next thing I tried, I built a way to reuse the references (the right panel) I think it's...
about 1 month ago • 1 min read
Bi-Weekly Wednesday Newsletter no. 128 [GREETING GOES HERE] What's Going On Back to drawing for fun. For client: Mudboard Is goin ok. Splitting my time between outreach and building. The feedback has been helpful. (not sure what else to share lol) I wrote a lil thingy talking about why I stopped Concaly. Business Card I wanna make another business card. I think it would be fun Throwing out ideas. On the front maybe ima do like my name with some flowers or something. But I don't wanna be too...
about 2 months ago • 1 min read
Bi-Weekly Wednesday Newsletter no. 127 [GREETING GOES HERE] What's Going On Art Help I was trying to post outreach for mudboard...and then I just started giving art feedback to people LOL. Am I just turning into an art teacher.... Someone asked "how do I draw this reference." It was such a bad question but I still took the bait lol: Mudboard I built a purpose statement. For the time being: Mudboard's goal is to help illustrators gather and reference visual inspiration without breaking their...
2 months ago • 1 min read
Bi-Weekly Wednesday Newsletter no. 126 [GREETING GOES HERE] What's Going On My own website I made my portfolio finally lol. It's not really targeted for work, but the structure resonated with me. It's kind of like a landing page for my life.https://www.andrwyoung.com/ I thought it cute to have all of the "chapters" have their own theme and stuff. So the all the colors and fonts change on click. I spent a good amount of time writing out each of the learnings Mudboard I think the launch went as...
3 months ago • 1 min read
Bi-Weekly Wednesday Newsletter no. 125 [GREETING GOES HERE] What's Going On Back to drawing I've been lowkey avoiding drawing. The context switching is a lot, so I've been putting off a lot of commissions. But I have to say that once I got to it, I'm pretty darn happy with how they turned out! Especially this one This one was nice too. Practicing those lasso tool skills This one was for myself. From a photo of when I climbed a mountain Concaly Idk if I mentioned earlier but I got 1...
3 months ago • 1 min read
Bi-Weekly Wednesday Newsletter no. 124 [GREETING GOES HERE] wndrlnd Text newsletter this week Reality Check The Facts Still living in my parent's house 25 2 years out of a job Illustration is not making me money Working in sales didn't get me money Ugly What I got going for me Jesus Still alive Can still make things So what are the options? 1. Looking for work If I were to look for work I think an early startup (~3-10 ppl) is the clearest option right now because: I want freedom I want money...
4 months ago • 2 min read
Bi-Weekly Wednesday Newsletter no. 123 [GREETING GOES HERE] Weow nice! it's 123 What's Going On ConCaly Worked on it some more. It's been about a month now since I started, and it's coming together. Here's where it's hosted: https://www.concaly.app/ I disabled like 90% of it on mobile just because it's really not worth it for me to build it out right now. Last week I said I was around 40% done but now I feel like I kind of overshot. I should have gotten feedback earlier cause I realized I...
4 months ago • 1 min read
Bi-Weekly Wednesday Newsletter no. 122 [GREETING GOES HERE] What's Going On ConCaly These past 2 weeks Sanskar and I have been working on a convention explorer/planner yea...details panel pretty sparse lol It's been pretty fun! I feel like it kind of fits well with my skillset this page took a while filters and stuff But I'm learning a lot. A lot of technical stuff but also thinking deeper about specific interactions and little details Search bar I really took my time to make things look...
5 months ago • 1 min read