The Gallery Test

I messed up my website. I was trying to figure out how to get rid of certain margins that had been driving me crazy, and I just couldn’t, for the life of me, figure out which bit of code was responsible for them. Eventually, I gave up trying to decipher the template. I was ready to just live with the funky margins until I saw how badly they interacted with a gallery shortcode I was trying to use. In the end, I had to move on from that Hugo theme. The new template I settled on is so much easier to edit… and, amazingly enough, its simplicity makes it one of the most gorgeous-looking Hugo themes out there. I love it.

Anyway… on to the reason why I was messing with gallery shortcodes in the first place… art updates! Here’s a sample of what I’ve been working on lately:

I started off this year with “Stardust,” the female transformers. I absolutely love this illustration. My niece asked me for the piece, and I can’t help but feel I let her down. I know it wasn’t exactly what she envisioned… my inspiration took me somewhere else, and I just had to follow. I will make it up to her someday. “Twisted Dress” and “Ceremony of Ashes” were my two favorite speed paints of this year. Both were done in less than an hour. “Ceremony of Ashes” I definitely have to explore some more later. The rest of the images were inspired by prompts from various art challenges I have done throughout the year

This is just a snippet of what I have worked on the past year. I am currently in an adjustment period. The number of work I have done this year is comparatively low compare to previous years, but the quality is higher (for the most part, lol). Not only that, but I have refocused some of my energies on art media that I haven’t focused on at all (digital sculpting, plus one big personal project, and now… writing). I know I am spreading myself thin with all these extra tasks, which meant my adjustment period for quality/quantity balance is going to go on for more years than I anticipated. I am pretty chill about the re-balancing though. It will be good in the long run, I am just hoping it wouldn’t burn me out too much.

Anyways… back to art!