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Artwork Backlog & Lore Updates Resuming!
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Artwork Backlog
I've been making some preparations for my gallery, as lately I've been considering uploading all of my collaboration pieces with 
gallivantcrow over here, rather than just the ones where I take charge in the rendering. I've honestly done a lot of work this year, but a lot of it has been with handling colors and block-ins for the commissions Noct and I work on.
I want to be able to show that work off here too, so I made a decision to go ahead and start uploading the backlog of art I have helped work on. XD I still want to showcase my own rendering / shading skills, but I also want to show off the work I've been doing all year.
But in preparation of that, I've created two new folders to better organize things. These folders are Rune's Rendering and Noct's Rendering. So now there will be dedicated areas to see pieces where I took charge of shading / rendering, and pieces where I only handled the colors while Noct handled the shading / rendering.
Some pieces might be shared to both folders, if Noct and I both contributed shading and rendering to the piece.
I hope you'll all enjoy the art updates coming. :>
Lore Updates
I've been wanting to get back into sharing my worldbuilding lore, and have been mulling over the best way to deliver those updates.
While I do have a World Anvil that people can view articles based on my world, since some of the articles contain NSFW content, it blocks anyone who doesn't have a World Anvil account from viewing it.
I don't really expect most people to bother making a World Anvil account unless you're also into worldbuilding, so I've been considering an alternative place to post lore things regarding my world.
While I have considered just keeping the lore updates to my journals, I feel I also run into the same issue of journals not being able to be locked behind maturity ratings, or tags.
I could always post them as literature posts on FA, but I'm not sure if that's the route I really wanna take. I would honestly love to be able to add artwork in-between text to help break up the text blocks. I know FA recently added support for PDFs but does anyone know if you can put images in them on FA? If so I might look into it as a possibility.
Otherwise, outside of hosting my own website for it (which isn't completely off the table, but I'm not ready to do something like that yet), I could possibly use Toyhouse?
I'll mull over the options for a bit longer, but I'm open to suggestions. I honestly would really love to better show off my world, as while I can share some bits and pieces of it when I upload art, I don't have artwork ready yet for every species or every detail I want to talk about yet. XD
But yeah, those are my updates for now. :>
gallivantcrow
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You shall always be a part of our grand cosmos.
Rest in peace, our beloved Spoozy.
🤍12/17/83 - 01/23/22🤍
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Another idea regarding lore posts could be an image file that's like a faux journal page? But those are extra work (though arguably less extra work than full on illustration for everything, and there are resources available), and you need to be careful about text size & amount because too much text on an image file is annoying to read. I've sometimes wanted to play with this format but I'm too verbose and I don't think I can pull it off, but I've seen cool faux journal pages before!
Doing that would probably be the best option right now, and breaking it up into smaller sections to read would make it more easy to read.
I just gotta figure out how to fix some of the colors and formatting on it, because it's exporting with some of my Obsidian's theme colors in tact, which doesn't look as good against a white background. XD
The faux journal thing is something I definitely would like to do sometime though! Figuring out a proper size for the pages and making sure the text is readable without the pages being resized to hell is definitely the challenging part of it, but it is an option I do want to explore at some point.