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Post by real on Jun 7, 2015 11:27:30 GMT -8
like it says on the tin
because people here is somehow able to make beautiful templates one after another and i'm so confused how to do that like
how???
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Post by DARKEE on Jun 7, 2015 11:51:06 GMT -8
this is all i want to know in life
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Post by beekeeper on Jun 7, 2015 14:13:05 GMT -8
literally everywhere - web design, books, album covers, art. for example this temp was really blatantly inspired by tumblr, this one based off this, etc. though actually a lot of time i don't have a specific vision in mind. i put on some rad tunes and just start coding straight up and just kind of... go with the flow, i guess? idk... (also i was considering making a complication of inspo/resources if anyone... would b interested.....)
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Post by real on Jun 7, 2015 14:33:10 GMT -8
(also i was considering making a complication of inspo/resources if anyone... would b interested.....) i think i speak for everyone here on gs when i say yes it'd be like a christmas present in june
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Post by EY ✻ BECKET !? on Jun 7, 2015 14:44:35 GMT -8
(also i was considering making a complication of inspo/resources if anyone... would b interested.....) i think i speak for everyone here on gs when i say yes it'd be like a christmas present in june I second that. -nod- Ripley's believe it or not, I do code, it's just a closely guarded secret not the focus of my time on GS. So don't post them here ever ;-; I think that I only have one app temp up? but anyway I'm always thinking about new designs, but they come pretty slow unless I've just gotten done with a hugeeeee round of posts or apps, have a gif that's a really weird size and can't find anything to match it on Adox or here, or if I've just been picspamming Jai Courtney. For me, my coding muse is a lot like beekeeper's. I plug in with Something like this (I listen to trance/techno a lot) and just go. Honestly I've never been one who has design "flow" out of me like a river-- it takes a bit and I tend to overthink things SO DAMN MUCH. omg what is wrong with me and my walls of text halp ;-;
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a pile of good & bad things
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Post by ⇒ KAIZU on Jun 9, 2015 6:28:19 GMT -8
usually, for me, i'll actually be out for the daily walk that i take, listening to music, just kinda lost in thought. goes for about half an hour; my suburb is as quiet as it is boring.
this process is where i get a lot of my ideas, actually. if anyone is experiencing writers block or some similar symptom i highly recommend just a half an hour walk with an ipod/mp3 player/whatever floats ur boat friend, it works. not to sound like some godly artist but sometimes ideas will just come to me, while others i'll try to specifically envision a template cuz i feel like i havent done one in too long.
regardless, i get this relatively vivid image, i make sure it stays in my head, i arrive back home, sit back down at my computer, put on... more music, and then i get to work. granted, most often the initial image doesn't even come close to the final product, but having that first idea is a nice... launchpad? it's late rn.
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MOTHER OF THE MAGICAL GIRLS
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Post by SIFR on Jun 9, 2015 6:44:44 GMT -8
For templates?
Some people express their ships through RP, AMVs, drawings, fanfiction.
I make templates w/shitty lyrics I got off 8Tracks.
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Post by real on Jun 9, 2015 7:39:29 GMT -8
usually, for me, i'll actually be out for the daily walk that i take, listening to music, just kinda lost in thought. goes for about half an hour; my suburb is as quiet as it is boring. this process is where i get a lot of my ideas, actually. if anyone is experiencing writers block or some similar symptom i highly recommend just a half an hour walk with an ipod/mp3 player/whatever floats ur boat friend, it works. not to sound like some godly artist but sometimes ideas will just come to me, while others i'll try to specifically envision a template cuz i feel like i havent done one in too long. regardless, i get this relatively vivid image, i make sure it stays in my head, i arrive back home, sit back down at my computer, put on... more music, and then i get to work. granted, most often the initial image doesn't even come close to the final product, but having that first idea is a nice... launchpad? it's late rn. i feel like i can relate to your process a lot, especially with that vivid image thing & how the initial idea doesn't come close to the final product sometimes just that for me before i start coding, i draw it out on paper & make a whole lot of notes. probably sounds like a lot of work for a template lol but it helps a lot imo
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a pile of good & bad things
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Post by ⇒ KAIZU on Jun 9, 2015 17:48:38 GMT -8
usually, for me, i'll actually be out for the daily walk that i take, listening to music, just kinda lost in thought. goes for about half an hour; my suburb is as quiet as it is boring. this process is where i get a lot of my ideas, actually. if anyone is experiencing writers block or some similar symptom i highly recommend just a half an hour walk with an ipod/mp3 player/whatever floats ur boat friend, it works. not to sound like some godly artist but sometimes ideas will just come to me, while others i'll try to specifically envision a template cuz i feel like i havent done one in too long. regardless, i get this relatively vivid image, i make sure it stays in my head, i arrive back home, sit back down at my computer, put on... more music, and then i get to work. granted, most often the initial image doesn't even come close to the final product, but having that first idea is a nice... launchpad? it's late rn. i feel like i can relate to your process a lot, especially with that vivid image thing & how the initial idea doesn't come close to the final product sometimes just that for me before i start coding, i draw it out on paper & make a whole lot of notes. probably sounds like a lot of work for a template lol but it helps a lot imo i'm no good at drawing orz since i also dabble in photoshop though i have tried creating mock-ups there, which i suppose is somewhat. never actually completed a template that came out of this process though, for whatever reason. xD
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Post by real on Jun 9, 2015 17:50:49 GMT -8
i feel like i can relate to your process a lot, especially with that vivid image thing & how the initial idea doesn't come close to the final product sometimes just that for me before i start coding, i draw it out on paper & make a whole lot of notes. probably sounds like a lot of work for a template lol but it helps a lot imo i'm no good at drawing orz since i also dabble in photoshop though i have tried creating mock-ups there, which i suppose is somewhat. never actually completed a template that came out of this process though, for whatever reason. xD LOL i'm horrible at drawing too, i used to make mockups on the computer (not photoshop but close) but i find it too time-consuming. so i draw out 5 minute shitty sketches. probably no one will understand what i write but at least i do (ish), that's the most important thing probably
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a pile of good & bad things
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Post by ⇒ KAIZU on Jun 9, 2015 17:53:54 GMT -8
i'm no good at drawing orz since i also dabble in photoshop though i have tried creating mock-ups there, which i suppose is somewhat. never actually completed a template that came out of this process though, for whatever reason. xD LOL i'm horrible at drawing too, i used to make mockups on the computer (not photoshop but close) but i find it too time-consuming. so i draw out 5 minute shitty sketches. probably no one will understand what i write but at least i do (ish), that's the most important thing probably one thing i concede though is the note-making, i've never tried that perhaps i shall o:
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Post by beekeeper on Jun 9, 2015 17:56:04 GMT -8
lmao you guys are so methodical... so organized... i just do everything at once
actually my notebook is filled w sketches/notes but i literally never actually make those temps
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Post by real on Jun 9, 2015 17:57:03 GMT -8
LOL i'm horrible at drawing too, i used to make mockups on the computer (not photoshop but close) but i find it too time-consuming. so i draw out 5 minute shitty sketches. probably no one will understand what i write but at least i do (ish), that's the most important thing probably one thing i concede though is the note-making, i've never tried that perhaps i shall o: it helps quite a bit i find! so that i don't forget what i intended to do with the temp (especially with the amount of hovers i usually have) lol hasn't happened yet but i don't want to take my chances if i get a really good idea beekeeper 50% of the temps i design don't actually get coded because they turn out horrible compared to what i sketched lmao
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Post by PHARAOH LEAP on Jun 9, 2015 19:28:16 GMT -8
Ahaha, I don't think I've sketched a picture of what I was trying to code since, uh. V4 skinning in 2011 when it was less "coding" and more graphics. Good times. ouo
I feel like saying I draw inspiration from songs to code templates would be inaccurate - it's more that I tell myself, "I'm going to code this template with these song lyrics and it's going to look terrible." More often than not, it takes me a terribly long time to come up with any sort of vague idea to code, but once I have a solid start, I pretty much come up with things as I go along. Keep what's good. Shave off what's not. I'd say one out of every three templates I code, I'll just toss the whole thing at any point and start all over with something completely different.
If I'm on, say, a time crunch or am just really have a hard time coming up with anything, admittedly, I'll just look at other templates on GS. Get inspiration from them. I mean, I never try to rip anything off, and I'm pretty sure most of my final results are pretty independent. but sometimes seeing a font used one way or whatever will get dominos clacking in my head.
And then, sometimes, when I'm showering or going to bed I have a really neat idea and I'm like, "That, I gotta code." Unfortunately, I usually forget it come time for actual coding. TuT
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I'VE BEEN A MENACE FOR THE LONGEST
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Post by WILLOW on Jun 12, 2015 8:50:38 GMT -8
i look at beekeeper's templates and skins and graphics and cry for a really long time until its blurry and distorted and my ears are ringing and my breathing is ragged and then i code
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