Hi! This is a home page to host my Neocities projects, some art, ramblings, and links to things I found helpful or interesting!
Still definitely under construction. ^^;
A minor refinement but the URL for the Magical Renegades project page changed to "magical-renegades-project" to distinguish it from the spin-off site for the project now being "https://synergyeclipse30.neocities.org/magical-renegades/index.html".
The renders for day 20 of Huevember has been added to the Huevember 2023 page!
Aside from one more piece that's mostly finished, I might be calling my participation in this year's Huevember challenge a wrap. There were some ideas I had planned for the green hues and I wish I could've gotten to them sooner. Multiple things slowed me down, but I'm glad I could still make some experimental pieces in this year's challenge and that I could keep at this one longer than the challenge I tried in October. The techniques I learned and practiced in those Huevember pieces will help me with my other projects.
November is over but I still have plans for a few more pieces for the art challenges I've been doing that month. I made another experimental piece for day 19 to model volumetric clouds and give them a stylized effect.
My notes about it and my first experiment with volumetric clouds I made about a day before this are also in the Huevember 2023 page.
My experimental piece for day 18 of Huevember and Meowvember is completed and posted to the Huevember 2023 page! There was a lot to write about this piece that was going to be 2D before making it all stylized 3D.
The drawing for day 17 and a WIP of a 3D piece for day 18 have been added to the Huevember 2023 page! There will be a lot of commentary for the day 18 piece which is in-progress and will be an experiment with a stylized 3D scene.
The drawings for days 13 and 15 have been posted to the Huevember 2023 page along with my progress near the end of the month.
It's been busy but I still have plans for at least a few more drawings to get through more of the color wheel, even if Huevember must extend into December!
There's still a lot of catching up to do if I'm going to try to get through most of the color wheel, but the drawings for days 11 and 12 have been posted to the Huevember 2023 page!
I finished a 3D modeling experiment for day 10 of Huevember and my notes for it! The Huevember 2023 page has been updated with notes and screenshots about how I made the sky, grid and mountains.
These were simple and if time allows and I don't make anything overly-complicated (ahem... the day 7-8 drawing that's still in-progress now 😩) I could experiment with more complex set-ups during this challenge. The drawing for day 11 is almost finished and I currently have sketches for drawings made up to day 15.
I'm doing Huevember again this year, and I started a page with the drawings and 3D renders I made so far with commentary.
The cat drawings are also for Meowvember, a cat-themed art challenge!
Huevember can also be a time for experimenting with stylized and colorful renders.
I also put together a banner for the Drawtober 2023 page to fit the style of the other project pages and added it to the projects list.
The finished drawing for scene 6 has been added to the Drawtober 2023 challenge page along with my wrap-up for the challenge.
My attention moved away from this challenge towards other things, but the wrap-up I wrote about why is open-ended and I think Roll for It! could still continue at another time even if it's no longer going to be part of a month-long art challenge.
As I was feeling this, I still wanted to finish the WIP for scene 6, which was drawn in MacPaint. When making 1-bit black and white art, MacPaint is still my favorite program to use for it.
A WIP for scene 7 and notes for it have been added to the Drawtober 2023 challenge page!
The finished drawing for scene 5 has been posted to the Drawtober 2023 challenge page with some more notes!
The drawings for scenes 5 and 6 are still in-progress but the story for scene 3 has been posted to the Roll for It! page! With it are some new notes for the Drawtober 2023 challenge page which expand on the established lore and mechanics of the setting.
With how much I've been writing about the mechanics I wonder if I should try to make this MMO idea a reality if I had the resources! 😅
The drawing for scene 5 is still in-progress; most of the base coloring effects have been applied and I'm moving to the shading next while I also drafted most of the story for scene 3.
I started the drawing for scene 6. The WIP and notes for it have been added to the Drawtober 2023 challenge page!
The drawing for scene 4 and a WIP of the drawing for scene 5 have been added to the Drawtober 2023 challenge page!
That was close!...
The story for this is still in-progress too but it's clear it's time for a food fight!
This should've been added yesterday but the drawing and story for scene 2 of Roll for It! have been posted along with the drawing for scene 3 to the Drawtober 2023 challenge page!
Chelsea doesn't look pleased with the quest she has to do!
Magical Renegades 90's Resort continued to be updated throughout the year but I didn't completely forget about the main site! I just haven't had much to add for it, but it's October and I'm doing one of the many art challenges for the month!
As with the other art challenges involving art for Magical Renegades, the art will also be posted here, the notes about the art challenge will be on a new page, and the stories to go with drawings will also be on 90's Resort!
The drawings for this challenge are for a new spin-off story, Magical Renegades - Roll for It!
The story gives the context for the drawing, and the Drawtober 2023 page explains the 5 prompts that will be used for each of the drawings and how they were put together. Each of the prompts were rolled from a column with 20 options using RNG!
A belated Happy New Year and a 2022 in Review post!
I put it in its own section without a header image on the Projects page for now so this wouldn't be delayed any further, but I'd want to spruce it up later with its own header image!
The Huevember 2022 art challenge page is finished with a wrap-up section at the end and a banner at the top! It's also been added to the Projects page!
Updated the Huevember 2022 art challenge page with the last drawing I completed for it! This drawing also has a story to go with it and was one of the most ambitious entries.
Updated the Huevember 2022 art challenge page with another drawing for day 24. I feel like only making a few more drawings for the challenge since I really should resume working on the webtoon while I also need to finish the Huevember 2022 page and write a 2022 in review page while I'm at it. However, I felt very determined to finish this piece and at least one other that I have in progress!
Updated the Huevember 2022 art challenge page with another drawing up to day 21!
Updated the Huevember 2022 art challenge page with more drawings up to day 20 along with a brief end of the month report. It's still ongoing and I have a few more drawings planned for this to get through the rest of the color wheel!
Latest drawings:
Updated the Huevember 2022 art challenge page with the drawings for days 9 and 10 with extra commentary!
Launched my first draft of a page for Huevember 2022! This page features the drawings I made for this challenge so far, with additional commentary on it and some pieces I made for Huevember 2020. This page will continue to be updated throughout the month!
Updated the Comics Challenge 2022 page with the final entry and a wrap-up! My next challenge is Huevember!
I started and finished coloring this yesterday as the first entry. This sketch was drawn for Sketchtember, the previous drawing challenge I participated in. I planned to color it soon after, but was juggling a lot as usual. Waiting was fine though because the hue for the first of the month is fitting for this drawing, and I had easy ideas for a palette to use!
Updated the Comics Challenge 2022 page with entries about my further progress from yesterday and today!
Updated the Comics Challenge 2022 page with entries about my further progress from the 27th and 28th!
A rollout of new pages, and a rework of the menu to be responsive on smaller screens! This was the most important fix to the layout because a menu is no use if it can't be viewed! Thank goodness for free tutorials and code out there to help with the changes and complexity of HTML 5!
Throughout the month, I've also been working on some new pages for this site, and the first versions of them are ready!
The first draft of the About page!
The project page for my main project, Magical Renegades!
A page about the comic challenge I'm currently participating for this month! This is still a WIP as the month continues and I write more updates! You can also view the progress for this challenge on my Mastodon.art page. This comics challenge page puts my posts together and adds more detail and images now that I'm not working with a character limit!
These projects are also on the Projects page.
Soon after I launched the redesign to make the site layout responsive, I found out that that only works on desktops and is completely unreadable on mobile devices! I was frustrated and started looking into properties of HTML 5 that'd help me make changes that'll allow this site to be readable on mobile devices while keeping the overall layout the same.
That's another refinement that's in-progress since I'm juggling more things. I also started an art challenge this month! I may post some of the sketches here, but you can follow along with them on my Mastodon page: @synergyeclipse30
New taste, same look! The layout looks the same, but has now been converted to be responsive! I haven't tested it on mobile, but the sections of the site now scale when you resize the window!
It was daunting to think about. When I took the plunge and started looking at resources, I found that I could group the sidebar and menu divs together in a container div to the left of the content, and I saw examples of how to properly use the float properties! Float properties were where I got stuck when I began designing this layout in February. As a workaround to get everything to display where it should, I used absolute positioning and sizes, but it was unreadable on mobile devices.
The Vega WIP was
The Vega WIP is also finished! The WIP page for it has been updated with it, the steps I took, and an experimental idea that didn't make it into the render!
I really should get to finishing the draft I made for an introduction to Blender article. Last week was focused on WIPs in Blender and I have two to show for this week!
The WIP for episode 27 of Anathema to Commonsense is in 90's Resort. I created a new page here about one of my experiments in 3D modeling that I want to make into a finished piece!: Shooting Star Vega WIP
I started this WIP and originally posted part 1 of it last summer. It was reposted here with the part 2 updates!
An annoying downside to using absolute positioning for the layout is that if I want to add or remove any links from the menu, I have to manually adjust the height of the div it's in, and adjust the positioning of the div below it. ^^; For now, the Musings link was changed to Projects to put various smaller projects and my ramblings about them!
The first article for this site! I started this guide while I was coloring illustrations I made in a watercolor style!/p>
This was a guide I wanted to write for a while, but I could never get to it, and by the time I wanted to, it was just after I finished a drawing and didn't write down any of the steps or take any screenshots about the process! Writing it as I was coloring illustrations so I could take screenshots of the steps without any backtracking was the best opportunity for it.
I said the About page would be the next update, but it wasn't quite ready. It'll be one of the next, along with a page I've been drafting about the basics of using Blender!
A separate page was also made for the web buttons I made that are free to use! Most of them were posted in an earlier update, but it's more convenient to have them all on one page!
Time to dust off this update page again! This redesign was almost ready to launch about 3 months ago but I nearly forgot about it while I was updating 90's Resort! ^^; I've been updating it on a weekly basis with new material and WIPs to keep viewers informed.
I had plans to launch this site redesign with at least a few other pages, like how 90's Resort was launched with a few other pages, but that'd take too long and I might forget about this again. For now, behold this new layout! The next addition to this site would be an About page.
A few more web buttons were added to the sidebar, and I have some ideas for more I could create! Those could also be one of the next updates!
This page was quickly thrown together in November just so I had an index page, since I began the development of a Neocities site with 90's Resort in mind as my flagship project, and it was ready to launch. It was about time that this page which could grow to host multiple projects gets a makeover that'd also better organize the ramblings and art I've posted here!
Inspiration for this redesign came from seeing several other personal pages on Neocities, which also jogged my memory of 2000's personal sites. The general layout is up, but more refinements will be made to it with more practice coding. Unlike 90's Resort, which deliberately uses tables for that 90's Web feel, this page uses divs and will be more inspired by the web of the 2000's.
I got help from some nice people for help making a grid layout!
This CSS Grid Generator is a great resource for getting started, and was recommended to me. When I have the Links page up, and have a section for resources, this will definitely be on the list!
The under construction GIF is from AnimatedGif.net, a great resource I found for free animated GIFs!
The inspiration for these buttons came from a discussion about cilantro! Like cilantro? Dislike it? Feel free to express your stance with these buttons on your site!
I've made several updates to 90's Resort since I posted an update here. 90's Resort is my flagship project on Neocities that the updates would be taking up nearly this entire page if I posted them here every time I updated. On average, 90's Resort has new updates weekly, and they're usually on the weekend (and is about to again as I type this)!
When a new episode hasn't been published that weekend, I've been posting WIPs more often.
There are still some ideas that I'm thinking about posting on this index page. I've been drafting a creation philosophy page and a small web manifesto page and both of them might be more fitting here.
A belated happy new year!
This is my first drawing I started this year. I wanted to practice more pixel art and working with limited color pallettes, and fireworks were a fitting way to start with it.
More pages have been added to 90's R e s o r t since the 15th! The Scattered Archives were added today!
Magical Renegades 90's R e s o r t is open!
Several of the pages that were ready for the launch were uploaded today. The page about the main series and one of the spin-offs are in-progress and will be the next updates.
It's launch time!
In all of the time that I've spent so far creating material for the two projects that will be hosted here, creating the sites for them and getting them ready enough for their launches, I almost forgot to put together this index page!
That was another obstacle that was keeping them from being ready to launch, and it wasn't wise for me to juggle multiple projects when they slowed each other down into development hell, though I've also had a lot going in my life as of late that slowed me down further. :-(
Despite everything that's been going on or still affecting me, I never gave up on preparing for the launch of these projects, even when I had to put any of them on the backburner. I always made incremental progress on either of them each day, and saw getting any made in the day as a success!
I've gotten far enough with both of them that they will soon be ready to launch!
There are buttons I made. Feel free to use them for your site!
