Welcome to the new site!
It’s been a long time since I blogged over at my first site grid7.org and I found it about time that I started doing it again. This time I wanted to have a certain amount of focus with this site then I did with the previous one and I thought the name was pretty damn cool.
The first thing I would like to focus the new site on is I want to write about my attempt to start creating and selling themes for Envato’s Themeforest. One of the things I have always been interested in for awhile now is building pretty kickass websites. However due to work, school and life in general I have never had the chance or the motivation to really sharpen those skills. I am hoping by getting a theme approved on the marketplace and start getting some extra income through it, it will give me the motivation I need to create even more themes.
As you can see the site now is a pretty bare bones Thematic theme for WordPress. By going through and getting better at web design and WordPress customization I can evolve the look of the site and reflect the hard work I am putting into it. While I am working on the site, I will write about the different steps I am taking and what my thought process was for doing something the way I did it. Think of this as a giant case study.
The next thing I would like to focus on to try and rekindle my love for sketching/cartooning. Up until the end of high-school I used to be a pretty prolific drawer and I used to fill sketchbooks and class notebooks all the time. I had aspirations of going to art school and landing up at some place like Industrial Light and Magic being a concept artist, but I couldn’t afford it and ended up getting into my second love….computers. One of the things that is starting to motivate me to draw again is seeing a ton of concept artists posting their sketch books online to see and inspiring people like me to get drawing again. I hope by doing the same I could somehow pay it forward by getting other’s inspired to get drawing or to stick with it.
Because I have a pretty insane schedule my writing will not be as numerous as I hope it to be, however I will try and crank out at least one post per week minimum.