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If you're curious about the ethos behind DeathSurplus, read here.
UPDATES!
4/2/26
Added a projects page~
Made a felt pin for my camera case
New digital art
1st ever oil painting!
Made a page for my jellyfish lamp!!!!
Wrote a very wonky 'guide' about how I did the side images for the jellyfish page
Disclaimer About Colors
I have finally concluded that it's impossible to calibrate the colors on my laptop correctly. Which means anything I draw digitally won't look right :( I've realized that my laptop simply doesn't have a lot of color "depth", so what looks like a dim red to me is actually a vivid red! You might've noticed the crazy saturation recently. Besides buying a whole new laptop, I'm not sure what I can do about this, but I'll look into it...
Experiment in Clean Side Images w/o Flexbox
Do you see those awesome websites with a central body of content and then some images and links on the side? Kinda like this page? Do you want advice from someone who is not good at HTML and CSS? Read more...
11ty Migration
I realized my website was begging for pagination-- asking visitors to load 10s of high-quality images was embarrassing me, haha. Let alone the 100s of images I hope to have on here eventually!
I also realized that I was duplicating a lot of HTML, and I know from programming games that you don't want to be copy/pasting anything. I had heard before of "static site generation" but I had no idea how that worked on any level. I can barely use CSS to make a decent looking site (still!), so I knew it was going to be a daunting task but a worthwhile one. I decided to do this after stumbling across a post mentioning 11ty, and so I chose to use 11ty as my static site generator with the help of the Nunjucks templating language. Read more...
Online Community Wishes
I desperately want more engagement with the online art & web scene. Like the thought of collaborating with other artists makes me giddy, tbh. I want a world where someone online not only reads the silly little opinions I have but comments on them, shares their thoughts & critiques, and I regularly go check out their website and do the same. (If you want that, PLEASE REACH OUT TO ME VIA emailme@deathsurplus.com)
I bring this up because of the newish social media platform Perfectly Imperfect (pi.fyi). Geared as a free, old-web style social hub that isn't harmful like other forms of social media, I gave it a try. ... I don't want to see content from people I don't know endlessly (small doses is fine) unless it's the start of a new, mutual relationship. I want to TALK to more people, not LOOK at more people. Read more...
2026 New Year's Writeup
Usually for the new year I write a little summary of what I've accomplished this year and reiterate the reason why I made this site and my gripes about being a hobby artist. Hard to believe that the first new year's I celebrated on this site was 4 years ago!!! Usually I get to list a bunch of projects/pieces I've finished and I get to use that as a backup for my argument that you don't have to draw every day to improve your art skills.
This year is a little different unfortunately. Read more...
2022 New Year's Rambling
My New Year's resolution last year was to finish as many projects as possible. I'm not really sure if I've done that more than I've created new projects, but I think that goal has led me to create more things than ever before. Every year my setup for working on projects improves, too. I've recorded 3 songs this year (the last one me and my dad recorded yesterday!), made 41 separate vector images, created my first complex halloween costume, done about 20 different digital drawings depending on how you count it, made 3 different little clay things, nade about 5 miniature pieces of furniture, and, generally, been way more productive when compared to previous years. I could really go on about things I've done.
I don't mean any of that as a gloat (for the most part, haha)- more as inspiration, hopefully? I consider myself a very slow worker. A good amount of my friends have drawn nearly 100 finished pieces this year compared to my 20, a few have started recording entire albums of their own, and I'm sure most of them have completed more projects than I did. But... I don't care! The important part, I think, is being satisfied with what you've done, and challenging yourself in a pleasant way. Read more...
