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When three humans of different world collide to create an art blog
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An Introduction
Hello, internet.
This is Elyna speaking. On the internet, I'm more known as Lynn, and among Radhii and Nenek, my genderbent version is called Eli. Call me whichever you're most comfortable using. if you know me in real life in any way though please try sticking to Elyna thanks.
I am the 'youngest' and most 'inexperienced' among the writers of this blog, but since I designed the blog I shall begin the intro post. I am a graphic design student, and I'm not very familiar with prospects of this subject since the vastness varies between universities. You might have noticed but I'm more of a writer than an artist, but I love art in all forms all the same, including literature and performance arts (well, watching it).
My experiences in art include sketching (realism and semi-realism is sort of my style right now but I started off with manga style) and I'm still learning with digital art. I hate coloring traditionally but the texture of paper when touched with pencil is ecstasy to me. Doodling when my thoughts are astray seems to be a habit. my illustrations are highly influenced by Korean idols and style.
I will be mostly posting experiences about trying new things and learning as a graphic student in INTEC, including figuring out template codes without 3-inch thick books and trying new brushes and color pallets on SAI. I'm quite a sullen person unless I start talking about something I'm interested about (which includes things that might bore you; sorry about that) so please forgive my boring writing style!! when it gets casual I can be considerably humorous though, so please anticipate that!
And that's all, reporting from my bed, 11:22pm, first of September 2014! Elyna, Out!
Salutations, friends!
Radhii, speaking! It took me a while to post my own intro, so I'm going to go all-out! Radhiah Ibrahim is my "official" name, Radhiah is my "usual" name, Radhii is my "pet" name, and Haidar is my the name of my "genderbent self."
In terms of art (in all its vastness), I'm only experienced in a tiny spec of it. I began drawing (seriously) at the age of 12 with our handy-dandy columned elementary school books, which I've used to make a comic called Idiotic Impulse. I started drawing digitally in 2011, and have continued to do so til' this day. I also post most of my art online on Twitter and Tumblr (with the user name Toddintops)! Mind you that as much as I am able to draw, COLOURING IS A HUGE CHALLENGE FOR ME... But! I am working on it, and will never give up until I can!
In this blog, I'll be covering multiple fields! My specialty being reviews, particularly reviews on events (because I am a convention junkie--)! But, I will also aid Elyna and Nenek with anecdotes and tips or tricks of my own (if Nenek hasn't covered them all already...)! At the end of each of my posts, I'll share with you a recent artwork/doodle of mine, just so I can keep track of my progress and so you can grow with me as well! I really do hope you'll enjoy our blog, it's super fun to write in, so I hope it'll be super fun to read, too!
So, that's all there is from me! Until next time, do take care, and have a nice day!
Woop~ Hello and welcome to the “get-to-know-you-bloggers” section of this blog.
I’m probably the last person to submit my bio but whatever.
So, my name is Nur Atiqah binti Hassan but you can just call me Nenek. Yes, I’m that Nenek Harmoni and yes, I’m a woman so stop asking about my gender and look in my damn profile. [You lazy ass bums..] Also, my genderbent self/human/creature is called Atif [some of you might have seen him somewhere on the internet, goofing around and being dumb.]
I’m also the creator of Haidar, Eli and Atif .
So yeah, I started drawing seriously when I was 12 and I started with comics mostly. Now I think I have about more than 20 comics created [only 1 is completed though.. *sweats*]. I got serious in drawing because of a friend of mine who also loves to draw. [Unfortunately, he quit drawing as we grew up and that is sad..]
After I got my own tablet on the 25th of December 2011, I went digital and crazy-mass-producing artworks since then. I also gain lots of friends and I’m glad to have them so I guess it’s a great life as an artist.
Enough about my background, I’m going to talk about what I do in this blog. Technically, I just draw tutorials and make tips on how to draw something or how to get inspirations. I think that’s all that I can do because I don’t have any other talent except for drawing..so yea~
Have fun looking around our blog and thank you for visiting~
TUTORIALS: Basics to Customized Templates
Sunday, 19 October 2014 @ 19:28
Recently a classmate asked about how I use templates because she finds it hard to understand the codes. I was actually anticipating this - even if my classmate hadn't asked I was planning to pretend a lot of people inquired me about it and teach you guys because 'you asked for it'. Just pretend that's true, okay?
Since you guys asked for it, here it is.
TIPS IN USING CUSTOMIZED TEMPLATES
(specifically for Blogger)
1. Where do I even find these template codes???
Well my friend, Google is a wonderful place. Googling "Blogger templates" would probably bring you to a good source. My favorite though has to be blogskins.com. Most of the designers here are actually teenage Singaporean girls honestly and some templates are pretty outdated, but due to it's minimalistic properties, they're still quite fashionable and easy to customize. They provide tags too, so you can look up "black" or "green" or "ribbons" or "kpop". Yes, kpop. Templates dedicated to oppas.
2. How do I customize the codes?
It's pretty simple, really. JavaScript are mainly structured by characters <> with words that customizes how something works or look like put in between, and the customization is broken with a slash; </>. For example, if I wanted to bold a phrase I would put < b> *insert phrase * < /b> (delete the spaces). For italic-ing, you replace the 'b' with an 'i' and to scratch you put 'strike', if you want to underline it's 'u'. Other instructions include font, font size, paragraphing (using br) and color. If you Google it up, you'll probably find a lot of tips and tricks on it.
Another easy way to customize things like the words on your header or on the navigation bar is to read the codes carefully. Often times, they're painfully obvious where the words are unless they're like a specific letter or word only, then you'll have to find a pattern that they use for every navigation page's section of the codes. Trust me, if you can find the pattern, chance is you can probably rearrange the navigation bar to you own liking. For example, the title of the blog (the one that appears on the tab) was on the 3rd line of the code, like this:
< title>Tricks to Aesthetics< /title>
Sizes of certain things are determined by 'px's. Yes, the letters px with numbers before it. It can get confusing but a lot of trial and error will really help. There's no use to customizing something using an alien language if you're not willing to have it look ugly for 5 minutes. These are particularly useful to customize positions of items like hovering navigation bars and don't want it to look awkward where ever it was. If you have a picture or widgets to add-on, this will help too.
Oh and about widgets, like cursors or snowflakes or music players, a lot of those are found above the
< /style> part of the code, if you're planning to customize the already given one. Otherwise, most add-ons have instructions along the codes so be adventurous and try it all out!
3. How do I add...?
Let's start with basics; pictures. The basic code is
< img src="insert url of picture" title="insert words that will appear as you hover" width="***" height="***">
This is what I usually use to add pictures from websites. I have a page on my tumblr where I specifically just put icons and stuff like that I can use to decorate blogs and such. The fact that these pictures never disappear unless I delete the post is why it's so convenient. Other places that you can use is flickr and tinypic. You can see as you browse through templates on blogskins the amount of blogs where the pictures aren't available - this is due to the owner of the pictures deleting these pictures and making them unavailable on the net anymore.
You change the options to this code by deleting the "
title=blablabla" section (if you don't want words to appear when you hover) and deleting the width & height part if you want to use the default size.
An example of adding a picture through codes:
I'll cut through the basic stuff and talk about added stuff like the chat box and the music player. The chat box is pretty simple - you go to cbox.com and customize your chat box there after signing up. You can adjust the size through adjusting the numbers after 'width' and 'height', just like the picture. They have two options though; one for the chat display and the other for chat form.
A lot of background music of blogs I've found doesn't have the play or pause or stop buttons, and some aren't that fancy. I think resources are very important, and I usually use widgets for my Tumblr so that helped me find a nice looking music player (not those from the MySpace days).
Here's the trick: Tumblr and Blogger both use JavaScript a.k.a HTML coding so anything made for Tumblr can be used for Blogger. The music tab above was actually made for Tumblr users, but it came in handy when I thought of adding music to our blog.
Another tip: most music players have the option "autoplay" readily made as an option, but if it turns out yours doesn't, looked for the '
autoplay=false ' part of the code and change the '
false' part to '
true'; vice versa.
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I can't post everything on this one blog post, but I hope that cleared a few things for you about customizing templates! There's a lot of customizing you can do, and all you have to do is explore a little and read codes like reading a book. Always have a back up code just in case and make small changes one at a time instead of big ones. If you have any questions, do hit me up at the chat box and I'll try to help. Also, remember that Google is your friend! A lot of things that I've learned also came from Googling stuff ha-ha so do a lot of exploring.
There's a lot of things you can learn in this world, just waiting for you to discover it. Quoting an unnie I know, a lot of reading will help you gain a lot of useless information.
-Lynn-
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