Web Design Diary: Music of the 2000s Fanlisting

I'm a real dumb ass, I applied to finish two fanlistings that I totally rushed to finish at the end. I had good ideas for both from the start but got caught up in way too many projects at the same time. My own doing. Anyway, this one is due tomorrow so I finally sat down and got it done. It's not perfect but I added two features that are totally cool.

First, the headers (pics of random 00s music celebs) change on refresh randomly. I did steal the script for it but I mostly get how it works and made it fit the fanlisting.

The CSS for the navigation though, I did totally on my own. Basically when you hover over the 'music player' buttons, the center will have text appear for the page to which the button takes you. Hell yeah! I also know how image maps work now. That's a lot of problems solved. 

Anyway here it is and you can find a link to it at the end of the post.

Index.

List of fans.

Codes/buttons.

Affiliates page.

Join page.

Update page.

No more fanlistings for a while because I'm going to get an unmanageable addiction plus the main site needs a lot of work. And I need to finish my CDwORLD zine, like now.

Artfight 2025 #01

Happy Artfight everyone, it has officially started. I actually managed to attack someone on the first day, it was a fellow neocitizen, Tubedfruit. I've long admired their art and their characters, specifically Ryder and Kyle, who are from a project they're working on called Out Of The West. It's really feeling like teen adventures in a desolate town in Ohio. 5 stars.

I'm actually very mad about the line art but by the time I realized that I had already finished the drawing so I decided to go with it. I'm pretty happy with the composition and colors, including the warmth. That's 1/11 done. Wow, I have a long way to go.

Web Design Diary: The Faculty Fanlisting

Hey. So, I've not actually posted any of the web site stuff I've been doing to this blog, but hey, it's an art form, at least to me. So, my latest project was a fanlisting for the Faculty. Honestly, I was really scrambling to finish it because I had something a bit different in mind. Something simpler than what I got in the end. This one took about a whole day and a half, most of that was gathering resources and doing extra work that was totally unnecessary! But it's a fanlisting, and I'm a fan, it's kind of my job to be extra obsessed for no good reason. 

Plus I found so many good LJ icons! Some are cute and many are just down-right hilarious. I actually still have like 50 more to upload by the way. 

Index.

List of Fans.

Codes/Buttons.

Join Page.

Update Page.

Affiliates Page.

Movie Summary Page.

Cast Page.

Extras Page.

Quiz Page.

Collected LJ Icons.

Soundtrack Page.

Internet Archive Page.

Photos Page.

Posters Page.

Credits Page.

This took way long but I'm honestly pretty happy with how it turned out. Also, be prepared to see more posts about my different web desing projects, though probably not in July because I'll be really busy with Artfight. If you're a fan of the movie, join the fanlisting or check out the extras, there's lots of fun things.

Pre-Artfight Excitement

Hey. I've been feeling like shit this week and the week before but there's some good news. The 2025 Artfight theme has been revealed and while I'm not nearly as excited for this theme as everyone else seems to be, I'm just glad it's coming. Fossils vs Crystals, I'm team crystals. If we lose this year that will be my 4th consecutive loss which I'm going to officially call a curse at that point. Truth is I never do Artfight to win, I just wanna share some art with some folks, get some art back, all that. This year I want to make at least 11 attacks, especially to hit up some mutuals and those I attack every year, I'll post about my progress over here. Meanwhile, here's my card for this year with five OCs (in order: Naomi, Dan, Josephine, Percy, Euphrosyne). Most of them don't have deep lore and just look cool to me (this is not usually the case, usually there is too much lore).

 Anyway, go team crystals!

Mermay 2025 Misc

I'm wrapping Mermay up early this year but even though I didnt go the traditional route of a drawing a day and I didn't hit every goal for my comic project, I still got a lot done and I'm happy with that. It's okay if the plans starts shifting, as long as youve created something by the deadline. Atleast I think that's fine for personal projects. Here's a few miscallenous illustrations that I did of the Mermay project characters:

Nei

Kiri

Hadrian

I will likely upload some other doodles before May really ends but I'll also be busy finishing up the script of episode/chapter 1 of this project. Stay tuned!

 ☆ Finny ★  

Mermay 2025 Day 8

I have not been feeling really good about my art the past few days but I'm still trying to get as much of the character concepts done as I can so I have at least something to work with. Today's character is the rival, the antagonist of my story: Kiri. He was actually Nei's friend until an incident occurred between them that made them into enemies. 

Day 8.

Kiri is an edge lord, he's also a half-mermaid and has a pretty troubled home life. I actually drew him in a prom outfit despite not having drawn the other characters in theirs. I guess I just had a vision of what I wanted his look to be so I just put that down. I'm actually really unhappy with how the body turned out but I'm pretty satisfied with the face. 

Casual Outfit Version 1.

Version 2.

Tomorrow I'll be drawing Kiri in his mermaid form.

☆ Finny ★  

Mermay 2025 Day 7

Hey, I've been too busy the past few days to finish this last drawing. Honestly, I'm not happy with it at all but I still feel like the attitude of the character comes through. 

    Day 7.

Hadrian is one of the only full-humans in the cast. He's an older mentor type to both Mona and Nei. He's originally Nei's co-worker and later a good friend. He's obsessed with 80s movies and music and is totally full of himself. He's a little cool. He has some past rivalries that he never got over.

Next, I'll be trying to draw Nei's ultimate surfing rival, Kiri. Stay tuned.

☆ Finny ★