New site icon!

Check it out!

I did the line art on paper, then did the shading and coloring on my tablet (I’d never done that before and boy was it a learning curve), and finally added the lettering in Adobe Photoshop CS2. You used to be able to download CS2 for free from Adobe at https://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/thankyou.jsp?ftpID=3088&fileID=2908, but sadly it looks like it’s no longer available. Unless… I don’t know… There’s a  machine of some sort… that can take you way back…

ANYWAY, I don’t know why the background is always black. That part’s supposed to be transparent, but the black works too so I’m not mad at it.

There’s a different term for this type of icon since it’ll pop up in a search engine next to my name in certain circumstances. For the life of me I cannot remember what it is. I just know I like it a whole lot better than the one designed by UENI on my behalf:

Mine’s not objectively better than this, but the new one is more me, you know?

I spent entirely too much time learning new skill sets for one icon, so this weekend I’ll be working on putting up Chapter 2 of Jascian up on Patreon (free) and going through my manuscript of Flow for… I dunno… the eight-hundredth time because hyper-fixation can suuuuck. 🫠

Oh hey. Is there a site you’d like me to try and upload Jascian to? I have a Ko-fi, which still exists but seems to have been cleared out of what little stuff I was able to upload there (they don’t allow the explicit content thing). The first draft of current chapters is on Nifty.org. I have a Discord which I have no idea how to use but I’m willing to make that my next hyper-fixation for you. 😉 If you have other suggestions, I’m open.

Take care,

–Rowan