Valacar's Art Page Web Journal

05/02/2006

• Changed some directory names and filenames. Hopefully I didn't break anything, although I did add redirects (301 http code) to my .htaccess file.

08/22/2006

• After trying out the HTML Validator firefox extension, I fixed quite a few html errors and warnings on different pages. It's amazing how bad a lot of the old html is...someday I'll have to recode them from scratch (yeah right, who am I kidding!)
• While fixing the html code, I updated the RGB to HEX tutorial. Basically just changed colors, and re-worded a few things.

07/01/2006

• Updated the background image on a few pages, including the front page. Still have a few others to change, but I may just leave them until I redesign things.
• Changed colors of main logo. I'll have to make a new logo soon.
• Changed gradient of the container boxes on tutorials page...to brown (just trying new colors since I'm a bit tired of blue).
• Note to self: I need to make a better common style sheet and remove all the <style> blocks so I can start creating a consistent style across pages.

06/30/2006

• Remade the Image Blending tutorial. Mostly the images changed, but I modified the text a bit too.
• Fixed up the Tutorials page. Added thumbnail pics and descriptions of each one.
• Added a pic of a human head I modeled in Maya a few months ago...in the "Other Art" section.
• Updated the Pikachu image a bit in the "Other Art" section. Changed background mainly.
• Added Kingdom Strategy logo I did a few years ago for Nickwolfe's web-based game.
• Added pimpstategy, idlestix and djayc logo I did a long time ago as well.
• Still haven't committed to redesigning things, but I think I'm getting closer...got some ideas.

03/21/2006

• New hosting from my good friend Zodiack (thanks bro!). And now that I have good stable hosting, I think I'll have to redesign the site, and maybe add some newer content.

05/04/2004

• New Bryce pic "Cylatrium" (combination of cylindrical and atrium. I hate coming up with names!)

04/04/2004

• Added two new pics to the Bryce gallery, and one to the Other Art section.

03/24/2004

• Added three new pics to the Bryce gallery.

01/27/2004

• Updated Simple Image Blending tutorial (new image and re-worded)
• Added a tutorial on making dashed lines

07/07/2003

• Added an email form on the contact web page

06/06/2003

• Made a new logo and background for the main page.
• Made a common stylesheet that most pages share

05/11/2003

• Added a new vector art section with a few things I've made

11/03/2002

• Added an old mech rendering in the other art section
• Updated some html code in a few places
• desaturated the background image a bit

07/16/2002

• Added two new logos...Heffo and Missexy01

06/19/2002

• Changed the color of my front logo, and the background as well.
• Removed the Javascript code to display images, and replaced it with PHP code.
• Modified the HTML code a bit to use style sheets. Still needs work though.

10/03/2001

• Added two new pics in the Bryce section (mirrorhallway and vista)

06/16/2001

• Removed email address from the "Contact" link on front page, and replaced it with a new page containing an image of my email address. Just trying to prevent some spam mail.

06/06/2001

• Added a "tile art" section from some art I did on tiles.ice.org
• Added a link to the tutorial "Texture Blending with Masks" although it's not actually quite done yet.

05/27/2001

• Added two new logos, SounDevotions and Resynthesize

03/02/2001

• Changed the look of the Bryce page a bit, and made thumbnail pics smaller.
• Added a new Bryce pic called Trapped

12/26/2000

• Rescanned my old drawing of Maxx, and overwrote the old one. The cool thing is that it's still 57k, but about 25% bigger and the quality is better =)

11/24/2000

• Added new logo "Valacar's Art Gallery". Was intending to make a new logo for this web page, but I don't think I'll use it. It's really a "test" of a bunch of photoshop brushes I made of some simple design elements (cube, grid, arrows, circuits).

11/21/2000

• Change the name of the "pokebear" pic in the misc section. LawMaker on #photoshop (EFnet) informed me of the real name, which is "Snorlax".
• Added "Pikachu" pic I did using the pen tool (been using that tool pretty often these days).

10/24/2000

• Added a new pic in the misc section...hard to describe it, but sorta looks like a metallic 'X' with a buncha random stuff on it.

10/20/2000

• Added new logo called NICKWOLFE, which the name of one of my friends on irc. Wasn't really made for him, I just used his name since I couldn't think of anything at the moment, and I wanted to try out a new logo style. Extremely simplistic, but it looks like it's shiny because of the specular highlights, which were all painted manually.
• Also replaced the AQUAFLUX logo with another version of it. There's actually 4 different version, but I liked this one best.

10/18/2000

• Added a new tutorial on how to convert between RGB color and HTML colors.

10/16/2000

• Added a new pic in the miscellaneous section. It's a pic of some bear-like character from pokemon, which I traced while practicing with photoshop's pen tool.

09/29/2000

• Added new logo called "aquaflux", which the new nick of one of my good irc friends (Crimson). I was only playing around in photoshop, but it turned out kinda cool, and I got to use my newly created photoshop brush of those ciruit board thingies.
• Modified the "precise cropping" tutorial to the new style

09/25/2000

• Added a new logo called "SPECULAR". I was trying to remember how to do that Apple plastic look (without a tutorial), but I don't think I quite got it since my specular highlights are a lot sharper (typical of glass or crystal), and the apple plastic usually has a more smooth gradient look to it.

09/14/2000

• Added a new logo called "BELIEF"; done for a friend on irc. He liked the "sreality" logo, so that's why there's some similarities.

09/08/2000

• Added a new logo called "BROKEN". I was just making it while checkin' out the "Broken Text" tutorial on wastedyouth.com, so that's why it says "BROKEN" =) Anyway, check out wastedyouth... they have some great tutorials.

09/06/2000

• Added a new tutorial on image blending. Similar to the texture blending tutorial in a way, but this one uses layer masks. Also tried a new layout that ended up pretty nice. I'll probably end up redoing the other tutorials in the same layout, and also fix up some of them (that gif89a one could use some better images).
• Decided to change the front page to the style of the tutorial I just made. Basically just change the background, but had to resave the main logo and change the line pics so they blended with the background.

09/04/2000

• Added two new pics to the misc section. Both are scanned pics of some art I did a while back. I'll probably be scanning some other stuff later on since I got a new scanner.

08/24/2000

• Remade my only surviving ANSI logo (the "humid" one in the misc section). Looks a million times better since it's not jpeg'd... plus it's about twice as big.
• Made a new bryce image of a floppy disk. Really close to the original floppy it's based on, but then again, how hard is it to reproduce a floppy disk =) It's just three different terrains, and all the text was all added in photoshop.

08/19/2000

• Added a new logo (Reflection Eternal). I was gonna add a few other older logos, but they were too crappy lookin'.
• Added an old pic of some tetris blocks I did a long time ago to the misc section.

08/18/2000

• Added javascript code to display images for me, that way I don't have to make seperate html files for each image. Basically means easier updating.
• Planning redesigning the page. The current layout is just thrown together really (obvious isn't it?).
• Also planning to change the "bryce links" section to just general art links.

02/23/2000

• Removed the Textures section (they all sucked anyway!)
• Removed the web rings section
• Updated the bryce links (removed bad links mainly)
• Changed the background texture of Bryce Scenes page
• Removed all text comments from the logos page, and formatted everything into a big table with 3 columns. I'll probably do the same to the Misc Art section later on too.
• Added one new logo (it's actually old, but never had it up) to the logos section...it's the "Euphoric Web Designs" at the bottom
• Made a few changes to the front page...mainly just the html code, and then I added a little line graphic thingy.

02/09/2000

• Change the main logo a little bit, and also optimized the jpeg quite a bit. The old logo was 40k and now it's only 14k, thanks to Macromedia Fireworks 3 =)

08/26/1999

• Decided to add this web journal for my art page since I have one for the programming page. Kinda helps people see what's new.
• Made a new photoshop tutorial on precise cropping