Ohhhh this question. *sigh* Ok…
Studio-Natsume was taken down for renovations awhile ago, originally, these renovations were intended to basically just be a re-color of what was already there. I spent about a week re-naming, re-sizing, making new icons, and sorting files, like, seriously, it took a super long time, but it felt unsatisfying because its like “Why am I doing this? All Im going to do is change colors and maybe make some new gallery thumbnails…”.
I deleted everything off the site, popped up the renovations notice, and for another week or so dug frantically around the internet to see if maybe I could find a gallery template that I liked; which, I didnt, every fucking gallery in the world seems to be the same thing; A big picture over a row of little icons that you slide back and forth like a slide-show. While that would work for a smaller site trying to push an actual portfolio, then it would have worked, but my site is becoming more of an archive than a portfolio.
Thats when the annoying shit in my brain began…“Lets make a Tumblr Feed…” “Lets hook it up to Twitter…” “Ill bet an Ask.Fm question box would be cool”… “man, we need a search function” “Crap, now we need to figure out tags”. For someone who knows literally fuck-all about building a site, it was turning out to be a horrible nightmare.
Thankfully, a good friend of mine saw me struggling and helped me, so, most of the files are uploaded to a new place, I have a bunch that seem to be broken and need re-uploading, but I can deal….also, I was able to throw out the pic thumbnails, which is good. 100x100 pixels of a face really just isnt enough, and frankly, having to make one every time I made a pic and having to make and keep track of them all until update-day was again, a horrible experience.
Sadly, he was pulled away part of the way through, and since then, hes had more work to do, so I dont want to pester him, and Ive had some commissions come in, and in all honesty, I treat commissions as 100% top priority. Once the deal is made, I do it. There is no ‘maybe later.’ No, I do it. I do it until its done, and after that, I can go back to everything else.
The site itself is mostly uploaded, roughly 50% of the pics are tagged, labelled, and when needed, credited and linked to whomever their source is. I have most of my header made..still trying to find a font I like for it.
Studio-Natsume is still in progress, it is neither forgotten nor abandoned, I just need a short recovery, because its hard. Its hard moving site. Its hard sometimes on commissions, because you want to make it perfect, and its hard sometimes to balance my offline life to make schedule for my online life. So, Im going to mentally recover for a bit when not working.
Dont you worry though. Its not dead. Its being reborn. And it will be way slicker, more organized, and user friendly.
About the Artist: I love my interests!
Boring Update:
It has come to my attention that I havent updated Studio-Natsume in over a year…..yeaaaaaah, Im sorry. You didnt really miss anything though, most of what I do goes up on HentaiFoundry.
Still, something needs to be done. Ill probably be at it for a little while, so I wont be extremely artistically active.
This is just a cute picture for my ‘About The Artist’ corner of the site, but, updating is going to take awhile, so I figured Id just leave this here as something to tide you over.