I'm an independent illustrator and artist. Here is the archive of my Weekly Wednesday Newsletters starting in September 2022
BWN: Snakes and Uncertainty
Bi-Weekly Wednesday Newsletter no. 129[GREETING GOES HERE] What's Going OnI didn't draw anything so I'm just gonna talk about Mudboard MudboardIt'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. Next thing I tried, I built a way to reuse the references (the right panel) I think it's useful, but I think it's too new of a concept. Could work in the future. A lot of people were asking for a way to resize images. And I couldn't figure it out on the grid mode, so found a way to switch between a freeform canvas and grid format. Doing this was a big move, cause there's so many more possibilities now. Most recently I made a thing to let people export their boards, which changed things a lot. Now people can make something with the app. That's crazy I have to work on improving my on-boarding, cause I don't think it's clear exactly how people should use this. But I think I stumbled into something....we'll see if it works out. What I've been thinking aboutI think whether I succeed or fail with Mudboard, I'll have grown a ton. And I've already grown so much! I'm learning a lot about working through uncertainty right now. I don't really know exactly what the future is, but I know generally where to go next, and that's all I can do anyways. If nothing works out I can probably just do some random tech job or draw more comics for people Thank you!Next Newsletter on August 6th! Shop | Previous posts | Main website |
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I'm an independent illustrator and artist. Here is the archive of my Weekly Wednesday Newsletters starting in September 2022
Bi-Weekly Wednesday Newsletter no. 135 [GREETING GOES HERE] What's Going On Some Drawings Coding Here's the website: https://www.readquail.com/ click on this! Made a business card. I guess you can call me.... (the title/role doesn't mean anything) What I've been thinking about I feel good about this direction I'm going in, but unfortunately it appears that it is a life of poverty and hard work for another few years ooffff I'm supposed to be engraving some wood blocks with designs....but I...
Bi-Weekly Wednesday Newsletter no. 134 [GREETING GOES HERE] What's Going On Random Drawings Drew some icons for a friend's website Mudboard Surprisingly, I still have regular users, and one of them asked for a better text editor. So I threw that together It made me very happy to do this actually. Glad it's still helpful for people. Coming back to this codebase after a month or so, I'm pleasantly surprised how complex this app is but also how fun it is to use. Good job past Andrw Quail Ok so...
Bi-Weekly Wednesday Newsletter no. 133 [GREETING GOES HERE] What's Going On Drew some dude holding an orange Quail We pushed out a version and got people trying it. Things are moving way faster than I had in the past, which is very nice (I really didn't know what I was doing earlier), but also kind of scary....like people are paying for what I built? That's a lot of pressure.... It's very nice to be working with someone else though. Old Stuff What I've been thinking about Thinking a lot about...