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tiny little reis for my cover of Wordplay by dj_xaneiro

this is a little outside my scope, but maybe I can clarify a bit

Autopsy for Two, a short addendum to Dream's End Come True, is now available. please enjoy, and happy 4th anniversary to DECT <3

short answer: yes, absolutely! go for it!

long answer: frankly if someone tells you not to take inspiration or study their art in any way they do not understand how art works at a core level. every artist is influenced (intentionally and unintentionally) by their surroundings/personal biases/social influences, and especially the artists they find themselves enjoying. this is part of why art is good

when I was younger the art communities i frequented on the internet were occasionally and inexplicably overcome by negativity toward using references "too much" / "stealing" inspiration & design choices from others, etc etc. this is bullshit. yes, doing something like publicly attempting to pass a surface level copy of someone else's work off as your own will always be kind of a dick move; it also indicates a disrespect for the act of creating art because you're not putting yourself into it at all. but you also have to learn how to steal effectively in order to grow as an artist

illustration for my Rei cover of I/Me/Myself by Will Wood

Thank you!

preemptively: my site is hosted on neocities, if youre coming at this entirely new to html w3schools is my go-to, and just. searching stuff you want to do (i.e. simple bullshit "put text in bottom left of page") usually gets you some good starting points. i am not an expert for this shit and am probably not the person to go to for explanations, ive just been coding on and off for years

you may want to take a peek through the page's code (right click -> view page source) to get the full rundown of whatever the hell i was doing, but tl;dr it's a lot of fairly simple HTML/CSS. if you know how to use divs and basic text/image styling in CSS you are good to go. i give express permission to steal whatever is on there for whatever amateur coding anyone is doing. steal my shit. maybe dont clone my whole website but if you wanna rip some elements go for it.

i.e. m & v2's dialogue is 2-3 lines of CSS styling and a div each. the img css is just set to make every image display full-width on the screen with no borders, etc.

note 1. ignore all the shit for the content warning box, that's a bunch of javascript and is incredibly overengineered, just use the <details> tag for a dropdown menu instead of that