Bi-Weekly Wednesday Newsletter no. 140 [GREETING GOES HERE] we had a blackout for 22 hrs....so I had to like read a book This year was kind of wild. Here's some things I've been thinking about: Thoughts on Failure These past 3 years I’ve grown so much from having the opportunity to do things like hike and getting paid to draw. But I also realize that I need to be more thoughtful about my decisions if I also wanted to support a family or buy dino nuggets. So I decided to take a door to door...
16 days ago • 2 min read
Bi-Weekly Wednesday Newsletter no. 139 [GREETING GOES HERE] thanks civi What's Going On Some Drawings Sketches for like a woodpecker sort of thing I did this logo thingy, but then I never followed up with the person.....er whoops Someone stranger asked me to do this in the middle of the night Camera Roll We'll see how much content I can pull out of the archives arf! What I've been thinking about I started wearing sunscreen...we'll see how it goes. Might be a scam. I'll let you know I've been...
about 1 month ago • 1 min read
Bi-Weekly Wednesday Newsletter no. 137 [GREETING GOES HERE] old building in berkley What's Going On Started drawing in pen. Stretching my skillset because I really have to think about the line quality and where I'm going. Meeting notes: Quail Thanks guys for the androids lollll What I've been thinking about I'm finding that ice cream is still really good My brother made soup yesterday and I think I'll have that for lunch today, even though I already defrosted some salmon. Chai Tea Baby Good...
about 2 months ago • 1 min read
Bi-Weekly Wednesday Newsletter no. 136 [GREETING GOES HERE] What's Going On Mudboard I wish I had a color picker and a image converter, so I threw one together over the weekend https://www.mudboard.com/colors this gradient is so pretty lol https://www.mudboard.com/processing Probably not perfect, but I quite like it. Wood Thing A while back I was accepted into an art fellowship for Asian American Christian artists, and I got to take part in a tour + retreat to learn about the history of SF....
2 months ago • 1 min read
Bi-Weekly Wednesday Newsletter no. 135 [GREETING GOES HERE] What's Going On Some Drawings Coding Here's the website: https://www.readquail.com/ click on this! Made a business card. I guess you can call me.... (the title/role doesn't mean anything) What I've been thinking about I feel good about this direction I'm going in, but unfortunately it appears that it is a life of poverty and hard work for another few years ooffff I'm supposed to be engraving some wood blocks with designs....but I...
3 months ago • 1 min read
Bi-Weekly Wednesday Newsletter no. 134 [GREETING GOES HERE] What's Going On Random Drawings Drew some icons for a friend's website Mudboard Surprisingly, I still have regular users, and one of them asked for a better text editor. So I threw that together It made me very happy to do this actually. Glad it's still helpful for people. Coming back to this codebase after a month or so, I'm pleasantly surprised how complex this app is but also how fun it is to use. Good job past Andrw Quail Ok so...
3 months ago • 1 min read
Bi-Weekly Wednesday Newsletter no. 133 [GREETING GOES HERE] What's Going On Drew some dude holding an orange Quail We pushed out a version and got people trying it. Things are moving way faster than I had in the past, which is very nice (I really didn't know what I was doing earlier), but also kind of scary....like people are paying for what I built? That's a lot of pressure.... It's very nice to be working with someone else though. Old Stuff What I've been thinking about Thinking a lot about...
4 months ago • 1 min read
Bi-Weekly Wednesday Newsletter no. 132 [GREETING GOES HERE] What's Going On Not too many visible things to show you this week Quails But I drew some quails "A" looks like a tongue Quail Um, my projects (Concaly + Mudboard) got the attention of some people, so I'm doing a short contract with someone to see if we'll work out as co-founders. I'm pretty excited but also kind of nervous cause I'm no longer in a silo, so what if I'm actually really bad lol. But I think it's quite nice to be able to...
4 months ago • 1 min read
Bi-Weekly Wednesday Newsletter no. 131 [GREETING GOES HERE] I ate watermelon for breakfast yesterday What's Going On Back Rope I wrote this fun article on the story of rope and how rope works (there's a cute poem in there too) I thought it would be fun to write, and I needed a mental break. Anyways, here's some of the drawings: Puzzle Game I'm working with someone and we wanted to build a game, so we built it... I suck at it tho lollllll Ref Searcher Last time I said idk if Mudboard would...
5 months ago • 1 min read