#also not for my portifolio blog

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[albasnotebook]

Lol I'm kind of dumb and didn't realize this wasn't your main blog as well. I was mostly talking about this blog but checking out your main one I can also confirm that you use colors really well in your artwork.

HEHEH this one is just for my silly doodles, the main one is almost a portifolio! I only post finished works there.

Andthanks again:33::3

[guzsdaily]

201 Days

Day 201 - May 24th, 12.024

Yes, I didn't notice that yesterday was the day 200 of the daily blogs.

Past Promises

If you are reading this since the first months of this personal challenge, you probably are wondering what happened to the projects like Hobbiest Monologue and the Elementria comics that I presented on the comemoration for 100 days. Well, I pretty much forgot about them. It is somewhat disappointing, but I kinda learned that it is better to do things before promising them, not only because it helps with not disappointing people, but also to keep your motivation and the urge to keep doing said thing.

Will I make said projects in the future? Maybe, the YouTube channel for Hobbiest Monologue is done, and both of them also have their respective logos and brands made. However, I'm not really focused on creating more content besides these blogs. Maybe one day when I have a professional job and a good enough workflow and tools to help mitigate the time and energy that these projects need, I will go back to the ideas. I do still love video creation and art, but I have other focus now. And it isn't like I won't make anything related to these topics, but a long-term project is not a good idea for now.

Past Achievements

Besides, I was able to do some projects. The main idea of "The System" wasn't really made into reality, since the whole idea of it were somewhat broken. However, said idea made me do a lot in the process.

I have finally started to learn, and completed a project with the Rust programming language! It is a simple project, and I didn't really make everything that I have planned, but it is good to have a CLI tool to manipulate markdown, which I am actively using in scripts on my Obsidian vault, and hopefully said project will grow and stabilize to be used by other people in their files. For now, I don't know how much about Rust I will continue. The main focus for me with the language is CLI tools and AST manipulation, since it feels to be a good use of it and in general I had a better experience (compared to something like JavaScript for AST manipulation). Yes, I could learn more about async and lifetimes, but I have already wasted a lot of my years just learning stuff, so if I need to in a project, I will learn them, I just don't want to actively be just studying concepts and syntaxes.

Talking about actually doing stuff. I really learned to not step too close into the sun, and stop abstracting even my fucking NixOS configuration. Programmers do love making abstractions before they are necessary, but fucking god, having anxiety and trying to predict every outcome of the program because of it, really takes it into the next level. And that's why I'm learning Go.

Like Rust, I was influenced by ThePrimeagen to learn Go, and HTMX (with some sprinkles of AlpineJS maybe), for server-side and web development in general. And it is being a great experiment, it is also funny how I haven't even read the docs of Go, and still am able to create a working website and server, without any dependencies. It is a breath of fresh air after learning so many JavaScript frameworks, build tools, libraries, etc. Nonetheless, learning the language can also help to find a job, it feels like it's starting to have more attention and opportunities, and besides I'm not "just another JavaScript developer" at least.

And hopefully the continuous task of improving my GitHub and LinkedIn profiles, improving my portifolio, getting certificates, and just trying to be more active on my accounts, can also help. I already send more than 70 applications, without any feedback whatsoever, but I will not give up, because I want to be able to hug my girlfriend and have a house with her in the future.

Past Chaos

Besides all what I somehow achieved, these last three months were a lot harder than I expected. Actually, I couldn't even predict what happened, and it feels like time passed by without I'm even noticing. I'm surprised that I even managed to complete anything.

I do not want to give a lot of personal information on the internet, even less if it is related to family and nothing to do with creative process or work. But as you probably noticed on a past blog post, I lost my (grand) grandmother, the person who raised my dad, that my mom took care of for pretty much 16 years, someone who lived until 99 years old with an incredible health to her age. My dad's family has a lot of issues, every family has, and my parents sacrificed a lot of themselves, since others didn't do anything better to take care of her. However, said sacrifices started to hit a lot this year, and my parent's mental health were in the limit, as my grand grandmother's health as also hitting the limit. I didn't work a lot during the time, since I wanted to be with my parents, not just to give some support, but also strength to fight, so others would take some action. And they did, but it didn't last that long.

Something that I want to be clear, you do not know what really was happening these three months, even less these 16 years, it may be my anxiety kicking right now, but I do not want no one to judge, make assumptions, say what we should have done, anything like that, now or in the future. You don't know me, I don't know you. She lived a healthy and long life, and my parents now can rest and are better thankfully, and this is what I care about.

The only thing that I want you to take from this, is to take care of the people that you love, they can be parents, grandparents, partners, friends, I don't care, take care and be with them when they need, the same way they were when you needed it. And know, independently of what happens, you will be okay in the end, do not let chaos make you give up, I beg you. I may be just 19 at the time of writing, but I gave up on so many things for so little, that these three months really showed me how much stronger I can be, mostly because of the people that are around me. So I ask, I beg, whatever you want to make in life, do not give up easily, be strong, be there, for you, and for the people that you love.

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Thanks for reading, hopefully the next 100 days will be better. And besides, whatever happens, I hopefully will meet you tomorrow, and every day until day 300.

- Someone who's trying to improve.

Today's artists & creative things Music: You Will Be Okay - by Caleb Hyles

© 2024 Gustavo "Guz" L. de Mello. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0

[mersinia]

Some of these are more active and some of these are dead

Netherlands is semi-active

Purpur is very active

Infinity Nikki is as active as it can be

You know the everything bracket

RehAIb will became active in summer with the first comic

Art wizard is my portifolio

Miku detector is still active

Picrew chainer gets random bursts of active

Tag list management is active depending on interaction

Timeloop is kinda gone as I keep forgetting to que more

Minecraft out of context has one thing left in the inbox but will probably die after that

The farhaj was a one time joke but I'm planning to revive it

Pluto is on a weird middle ground where it terrifies me to post now

Random askbox shit upgraded to a group blog and I think that's going alright

Starmod is temporarily retired

Cult of pokelamb is being worked on without update posts

Gimmick teachers is dead as well due to no interactions

Tree taker I forgot about I might revive that

Not in the bible needs new code which I've been working on actually

Blobbie and bert are dead due to the wizard Le kinda collapsing when we got discord

Blobert is dead because the gnome killed it

Haunted forest is a group blog I joined that no one uses

Mistakemode crashes my phone to open

It's a promise not a threat is still active

Shity sheep is also based on interaction

Rat detector 666 is not active and never has been

You get one Friday will post next Friday the 13th

Hi mutual

- @the-everything-bracket

Hellooooooo most interesting person ever

[leogbarros]

Há alguns anos criei um Blog. Sim, um blog! Parecia uma coisa boa a se fazer, na época, para divulgar meus trabalhos de ilustração... e até foi bem divertido fazer. Se eu não tivesse me atolado se serviço e perdido TODO o meu tempo livre, estaria bem mais cheio. A ideia era fazer um portfólio online com cara de blog, como está escrito lá! Hehehe Nesse blog tem ilustrações que eu fiz em vários estilos. Também tem um pouco de design, um pouco de arquitetura e até uns desenhos que eu fazia quando comecei a gostar de ilustrar. Ah. E tem muita coisa lá, que já postei aqui... mas tem umas coisas que não vou colocar de jeito nenhum! 😂😂🤦🏻‍♂️ Segue aí uma amostra do que foi um dia... Tenho pensado em reativar um dia, só não sei se valeria a pena. Alguém tem uma sugestão ou dica? Valeu! . A few years ago I created a Blog. Yes, a blog! It seemed like a good thing to do, at the time, to promote my illustration work ... and it was really fun to do. If I hadn't gotten bogged down in service and lost ALL of my free time, it would have been a lot more crowded. The idea was to make an online portfolio that looks like a blog, as written there! Hehehe This blog has illustrations that I made in various styles. It also has a little bit of design, a little bit of architecture and even some drawings that I did when I started to like to illustrate. Ah. And there are a lot of things there, that I already posted here ... but there are some things that I will not put in any way! 😂😂🤦🏻‍♂️ Here is a sample of what was once ... I've been thinking about reactivating one day, I just don't know if it would be worth it. Does anyone have a suggestion or tip? thanks! . . . #illustration #illustrationartists #ilustração #ilustracao #desenho #drawings #drawing #design #vectors #vetor #arte #art #portifolio #blog #blogger https://www.instagram.com/p/CEpVpCYBbnG/?igshid=13j9ywue4drsf

[starg-saa]

Hello guys ;) I created an art blog! As you know, this is my personal blog and here I reblog a bunch of things. Sometimes I felt like my drawings got ‘lost’ in the huge amount of reblogs and It’s been some time that I wanted to create a place to show just my drawings, something like a portifolio, so, here it is: https://saa-art.tumblr.com/  

I’ll be taking requests there this month :3

I’ll keep rebloging my art here, but it will be first posted there (and you can scape the reblog spam that happens everytime I start a new game or show lol). I’ll be also online on both blogs, so if you want to ask for reposting permission (I love to see that you guys respect the artist and ask for permission, thank you <33)  or just talk, you can call me here ou there :v

Hope you guys understand and support this little change, thank you <33

[luca-shaw-blog]

Portfolio Feedback 2

Fig Taylor 

My encounter with Fig Taylor felt like a crucially current and well needed crash course in the Illustration industry. First and foremost she made it clear to me that in this country we have an abundance of illustrators, it is well populated and competitive. Yet with this wide selection brings freedom to be an individual, hone in on an area you do best and demonstrate it. She suggested that nowadays illustrators have a greater freedom to forge their own market, an opportunity to create work that is exclusively YOU, and navigate the areas that your work could fit, becoming your own director perhaps.

Having said this, Fig insisted that clients need it easy - 1 consistent style as much as possible, 1 outlet. They want to be able to trust your work and know what outcome they will get. This is where the portifolio comes in and must act as a demonstration of the ‘well oiled illustration machine’ that the client wants. She explained that the ideal portfolio contains only the type of work you want to be commissioned on and work that is genuinely you. With this in mind, I was curious as to how a practitioner like myself can forge this ‘consistency’, with my working methods engrained primarily in experimentation. I doubted my ability to have a coherent portfolio that ‘spells it out’ to the client. Yet it soon occurred to me that there is scope for a variety of outlets and approaches, and success with this lies with the way I direct my work and distinguish the differences in my work. A way to do this that Fig outlined was via a website which is organised to clearly distinguish between ‘art’ ‘design’ ‘editorial’ etc etc. She even suggested having 2 websites or 2 portfolios with different directions. I would just need to be more specific when approaching desired clients, select the work I know would fit to the subject matter and direct clients to this work only.  When it came to Fig looking at my portfolio directly, she picked up on the ‘fine art’ strain of my work, commenting on how it aligned with ‘fine art’ much more than any she’d seen throughout the day. She suggested that artist’s books could be a route for me to take my work down, as well as print fairs selling hand made books and prints, as these environments allow for these kinds of aesthetic a little more. I wasn’t disheartened by this comment, I think this environment is definitely akin to my aesthetic, I like the concept of socialist art that comes with print fairs - a place where art and design is accessible and attainable to lots of people at reasonable prices and via usable formats such as postcards and bookmarks. Yet turning to the area of editorial more, Fig outlined the distinction between a ‘female’ and ‘male’ visual language that determines the subject matter within editorial work. She was encouraging that my visual language could apply to the ‘female’ subject area of editorial such as education/mental health and wellbeing. She also picked up on the possible application within conceptual illustration.  In conclusion, the advice and information gained from Fig during her visit was undoubtedly vital. I feel as if I’m slowly building a thorough picture of the different ways to apply my work. Something that will most definitely stay with me from this visit is the importance and role that an online presence plays in getting work. She compared the instagram page/the blog to the interview scenario, suggesting that these outlets are crucial when a potential client has limited time yet wants to know that little more about you, your approaches, your methods, your interests. It was reassuring to know that some people are still interested in process as it’s such an important part for me when making work. It is also much clearer to me that my work and working method most definitely challenges the squeaky clean image of ‘the well oiled illustration machine’, but I’m okay with this, in fact I’m proud of it. Because for me my interest lies in the process of illustrating, of making responses, of delving into what it is i’m visually communicating and exploring it, and as much as any ‘style’ I’ve forged from this process, it’s the process itself that forms my visual language. 

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sketch animation i made today