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The joy of editing my site and "should I update old pics?...
a year ago
I've probably mentioned this a bit (or a lot) before but I love working on my website. That is a great thing, but at the same time it's TERRIBLE because every time I touch anything on my website, it spirals into doing more and more things and having more ideas for things that I wanna do and things I need to update... so it ends up never being just "a quick little update".
For example: My character profiles have a few sections on them that I've grown to hate, so I decided to trim those bits and update other bits. Took me a while but I made a new profile template. Now I just had to apply that to every character, which is a bit time consuming but mostly copypasting things into the new format but... on the second char I picked, I decided "yep he needs a tiny redesign and a fullbody art". Redesigns for me mean going back and updating any picture I still consider relevant for that character with the new design, so yeah. Then third character "yeah I'll finish that fullbody sketch of him right now because I've had it for years so why not". Sixth character, full redesign, which included redrawing parts of the older pics, and also a new wip. Then I redesigned his friend, who didn't even have a profile in my site yet. Then two other characters who also didn't have profiles... Because you see, with the new profile thing I made, I'm back at feeling super eager to add all my OCs there (which are a lot of people yet to add) so I wanted to get these guys ready.
So at this point I had 2 new finished fullbodies, 2 new wips, about 10 updated old pics and a couple updated wips (that shall remain as wips for now, rip), and I'm kinda slow at things so this kinda happened over a few days. But then, I realized that I was tired of seeing broken pics on my chars "menu" page. I usually only added char pics when their profiles are finished, but I decided to just add everyone's pics even if their profiles aren't up yet because it'd just look nicer. So, 21 pics cropped and resized into icons. Sadly, most chars still don't have a "side headshot" so I didn't add those because I want to keep the consistency I have going, but everyone who already has one is now added. (The ones who don't have one get a silly little "WIP" placeholder now)
But by now, I had already "wasted" too much time on this so I convinced myself to stop editing anything and go back to actual work I had to do. Soooo my char profile updating process lies incomplete for now, because I'm supposed to have other priorities at the moment. Not only I have commissions to do but also a lot of Houndsdagger/Verloren stuff that's stuck in wip-hell. And now I should probably post those 2 new pics, but I'm wondering what to do about the redesigned old pics. Should I repost them here? Should I just quietly update old submissions instead? Should I just do nothing, because who cares about old pics and the updated pics are already in my website anyway?
Anyway, just a random overly-lengthy journal to bump my last one off my profile because I'm caught up with posting for now, so that journal was obsolete.
For example: My character profiles have a few sections on them that I've grown to hate, so I decided to trim those bits and update other bits. Took me a while but I made a new profile template. Now I just had to apply that to every character, which is a bit time consuming but mostly copypasting things into the new format but... on the second char I picked, I decided "yep he needs a tiny redesign and a fullbody art". Redesigns for me mean going back and updating any picture I still consider relevant for that character with the new design, so yeah. Then third character "yeah I'll finish that fullbody sketch of him right now because I've had it for years so why not". Sixth character, full redesign, which included redrawing parts of the older pics, and also a new wip. Then I redesigned his friend, who didn't even have a profile in my site yet. Then two other characters who also didn't have profiles... Because you see, with the new profile thing I made, I'm back at feeling super eager to add all my OCs there (which are a lot of people yet to add) so I wanted to get these guys ready.
So at this point I had 2 new finished fullbodies, 2 new wips, about 10 updated old pics and a couple updated wips (that shall remain as wips for now, rip), and I'm kinda slow at things so this kinda happened over a few days. But then, I realized that I was tired of seeing broken pics on my chars "menu" page. I usually only added char pics when their profiles are finished, but I decided to just add everyone's pics even if their profiles aren't up yet because it'd just look nicer. So, 21 pics cropped and resized into icons. Sadly, most chars still don't have a "side headshot" so I didn't add those because I want to keep the consistency I have going, but everyone who already has one is now added. (The ones who don't have one get a silly little "WIP" placeholder now)
But by now, I had already "wasted" too much time on this so I convinced myself to stop editing anything and go back to actual work I had to do. Soooo my char profile updating process lies incomplete for now, because I'm supposed to have other priorities at the moment. Not only I have commissions to do but also a lot of Houndsdagger/Verloren stuff that's stuck in wip-hell. And now I should probably post those 2 new pics, but I'm wondering what to do about the redesigned old pics. Should I repost them here? Should I just quietly update old submissions instead? Should I just do nothing, because who cares about old pics and the updated pics are already in my website anyway?
Anyway, just a random overly-lengthy journal to bump my last one off my profile because I'm caught up with posting for now, so that journal was obsolete.
