Kame no No-to

A little trick to remeber the Katakana シ (shi) and ツ (tsu).

IN JAPANESE, WEDNESDAY IS 水曜日

WHICH IS LITERALLY WATER DAY

FREE! COMES OUT ON WEDNESDAY

FREE! COMES OUT ON WATER DAY 

After nearly two days of nonstop vectoring and coding…

Gabracadabra.com is open!

Well, sorta.

The front page is completely finished, and the portfolio pages are essentially where they need to be. That’s all I really needed to have done for the job application, so every other page has throwaway content (or no content at all). But that’s okay. This is way farther than I thought I’d be at this point. Three cheers for deadlines!

Literally everyone who commented on my post about the style of the redesign said I should do “dark and feminine,” but I asked that question before I knew I had two days to create the design. I ended up going with “bright and cartoonish,” because, well…it’s easy. Ideally, I’ll turn the site into a “Pick Your Adventure”-type dealie where visitors can choose one of the three styles I mentioned before entering the site. I would keep the same concept for each design, but alter the colors and details of the objects to fit the different looks.

Also, I apologize for including a “photography” section in the portfolio. I don’t want to be one of those people, but I keep deleting old artwork without creating anything new. I needed something to fill up a little more space. Hopefully, that will be replaced by a traditional art section someday. But first I have to create some traditional art that does not involve stick figures.

This is why! I had to redesign my portfolio for an important job application. I know it doesn't have anything to do with Japanese, so I apologize for posting about it here. But I wanted to let you know why I've been so inactive. I'll be back to posting semi-regularly soon!

It's super fascinating. I struggled with reading and remembering phone numbers at the speed expected of me in class, so this could definitely be of good use.