Whoa. It's been a while hasn't it?

I apologize for the lack of consistent updates. April and May were extremely hectic months. The former swamped me with final requirements, and the latter was full of moments where I had to navigate the post-school, pre-bar exam part of my life. For once everything has become free time and it's overwhelming. Heck, even the awe of free time broke my brain to the point I got severely art blocked. Change is potent. And here I am trying to find things to do now! I'd like to lay down my plans for the next few months.

For the meantime, I'll be doing a lot of practice pieces just to make sure I won't lose any technical skill that I've somehow learned. Plus, it allows me to explore without thinking of a certain theme. Having to keep a certain brand of sadness and melancholy puts a limit on what I can draw. I'd like to break free from that, for now! The world is a massive place. There are many more opportunities to express the eternal melancholy we all feel.

But what am I practicing for? Teehee. Well I'm making a zine! It's currently in its planning stage, and I can't wait to say more details about it.

For this site, I'm going to add more art to the art page and officially launch this site! The completion of the art page is the only thing that is missing at this point. And maybe I'll clean up the code >.> But once launched, I'll spend a lot more time here and maintain this place not as a creative exercise but as an official part of my part of the internet. It's pretty neat doing all of this!

That's all for now. See you next update!

A good friend warned me that while coding this website, I would have to encounter javascript. I called his bluff. It was a bad call.

The sudden lull in the updates of this site isn't out of procrastination. It was the time when school picked up and I had to prepare for midterms. On top of that, I wanted to figure out how to tackle the art page. There were some options. One, replicate the way my art on carrd would be presented. That would take a lot of time learning and picking up modals and javascript. Two, just hyperlink the art tab to the carrd or cara. But that just defeats the purpose of coding this whole site wouldnt it? Or three, present the art by coding one page per art. That would just be tedious and repetitive, but the easiest.

Look, I wanted a challenge,,,

The plan was simple. The art page would be this collection of drawings all laid out. When someone clicks on it, a modal would pop-out showing the art and its details. I drew up some quick function that I learned from a single youtube video and managed to get one modal to pop out when clicking an image. Then I added two images and I didn't seem to get it working. So it stopped there. Then came a friend of mine who drew up a whole function and that kept the ball rolling. (Shoutout to PF, for the code! Now I will never come out of the hole!)

Eight sets of modals later and there we go! A beta version of the art page. Its still a test to see if everything works. So far there are only eight artworks posted. Better start small! There tends to be some changes when I import code from notepad++ to neocities. So before going on a large scale update, I'd rather put everything piece-by-piece. It makes working on mistakes faster and allows me to learn from them. Trial and error! Here's the link to try it out!

If anything is still broken, please do let me know! If none, then I'll be able to add more soon :>