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...
19 days 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...
about 1 month 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...
about 2 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...
2 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...
2 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...
3 months ago • 1 min read
Bi-Weekly Wednesday Newsletter no. 121 [GREETING GOES HERE] My hand works! What's Going On Inquiryon Finally can draw: I made this for another website I did (github) for someone. The theme was refining a gemstone I learned a ton cause it was my first time coding everything from scratch (not just bashing a template) I quite like this and I love how this turned out Supposed to look like the logo: This project made me want to learn how to cut gems...we'll see Pooh Just wanted to share the final...
3 months ago • 1 min read
Bi-Weekly Wednesday Newsletter no. 120 [GREETING GOES HERE] touched grass this weekend So since I broke my left hand, I can't really draw. But I can type What's Going On I started coding again lol. I'm kind of embarrassed to share because I think it's kind of uncool, but I really enjoyed it haha. (link) text is ai garbo lolll Got to practice design and then remind myself why I liked coding to begin with. I had fun designing the color scheme, fonts and logo (flower thing) and then putting it...
4 months ago • 1 min read
Bi-Weekly Wednesday Newsletter no. 119 [GREETING GOES HERE] What's Going On Random Projects Some commissions and stuff Random Drawings What I've been thinking about I think I might be sick tho lol Last week I ate ice cream on waffle but then I ran out of waffles After I schedule this newsletter, ima go take a shower Thank you! partyyyyy I fell on my hand Next Newsletter March 19th! Shop | Previous posts | Main website
4 months ago • 1 min read