A beautiful jasmine blooming in the park nearby.
“Springtime”
A yellow chestnut leaf in the late spring.
“The only constant is change”
“The only constant is change.”
Yes, the only constant in life is change…
A jump from WP 4.9x. to 6.2.x and move to https (SSL)
Finally. Our personal blogs are now updated (from WordPress 4.9.x to 6.2.x), Classic Editor and Classic Widgets plugins are installed, https certificates added (transition from http → to https), MySQL tables updated (thousands of http entries replaced with https), a few minor issues fixed.
Next — find/tweak better themes, start blogging more often. And follow more RSS feeds. :)
And kudos to @gonzomir who is a true master of the Web, WordPress, and the server command line craft, and who helped me and @molif pull this off successfully! ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Oh and also — fix one critical PHP error in a plugin of critical importance! Update (one day later): The critical error was fixed! :)
“After the rain”
Yesterday me and Ani went to the little park nearby, to walk our dog Murphy and to see the nature enjoy a refreshing morning rain. These are a few shots from that walk — I am especially proud of the last one where I managed to “catch” a bee right in the moment when it was leaving a rose hip flower! :-)
Water drop pearls after the rain.
A mushroom hiding in the grass.
A white heart..
A blooming rose hip bush.
A little bee meets a spider!
The Lighthouse (2022, Figma edition)
Years ago, while exploring Gravit Designer*, I created with its help an illustration of a lighthouse on a night sea.
“The Lighthouse,” a vector illustration that I created in Gravit Designer, in 2015.”
Fast-forward to today, now Gravit Designer is Corel Vector* (RIP, Gravit!), the world of graphic design software has changed a lot, and one of the most popular apps for screen design became Figma Design. I wanted to try Figma and learn its basic tools and workflows, so I opened Figma and tried to make a similar illustration in it. And couple of hours later — voilà, all done!
“The Lighthouse” (Figma Design, 2022) — final version with colors and everything.
The experience was fun and overall I liked Figma’s vector tools and how they behave. Only nitpick: I am missing a real noise filter in Figma, but now that Rogie King is working on a Noise & Textures plugin — currently it’s work-in-progress — I am sure this will be not an issue soon.
“The Lighthouse” (Figma Design, 2022) — vector outlines and colors overlaid.
“The Lighthouse” (Figma Design, 2022) — vector outlines only.
P.S. It’s sad to see Dribbble change so much — now it’s even impossible to post an image and not see it blurry and pixellated.
The best CSS joke ever
Two CSS properties walk into a bar.
A barstool in a completely different bar falls over.
(via: @thomasfuchs)
— This is probably the best CSS joke ever! 🤣
The Party Tree (Monsters & Carrots project)
I wasn’t drawing for months, then I tried again. Some things take time, plus, the years 2020/2021 took their toll on me so I was too tired to draw and to be creative… Still, I tried.
And some things take a lot of time. It took me almost eight months from the A5 blank sheet of paper in my notebook, till the moment when I was mostly happy with the final fullcolor illustration, ready to be scanned! Once done and scanned, it required cleaning up some pixels and adjusting a few things, before making a couple of test prints.
Once I did some test prints and a few adjustments in-between them, the final A3 print was ready, framed and shining in all its glory.
I am not drawing much lately. Maybe it’s just a moment in my life, when I need to pause, to reflect, to take some rest.
But I am very happy with “The Party Tree” which I completed and sold at the end of 2021, in only one copy. And what’s more, the person who commissioned this artwork, was also happy! 💖
We make art for ourselves but also for others. The world is in such a dark state now… We need more art and more light in it.
(Edit: You can also see these three stages of the illustration in my Dribbble profile.)