JADE EVERSTONE Site and Project updates feed for nerds https://jadeeverstone.com/ Tue, 1 Nov 2022 23:47:00 +0000 20000 BLOG - PC-Mania format change (and why I haven't been able to update) A post regarding my webcomic project, PC-Mania, that's been stagnant since graduation. It's a more serious entry, but I think at least putting out a statement and committing to a format change will at least ease one thing that's been causing me stress lately.

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https://jadeeverstone.com/everlog/posts/2024-03-13-pcmania-format-change Wed, 13 Mar 2024 15:30:00 -0500
ART - LPS EMPRESS It is hyper-specific-crossover hours.

Long story short, I managed to get 2 long-term dreamie LPS within the past month or so, and I've also been fixating on IIDX. The two pets' color schemes (LPS 1313 and LPS 1699) loosely reminded me of Ameto & Saya. So, this idea came out.

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https://jadeeverstone.com/art/2024/ Tues, 12 Mar 2024 02:25:00 -0500
ART - POV: Your partner is a New Englander Based on a Twitter redraw challenge

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https://jadeeverstone.com/art/2024/ Wed, 07 Feb 2024 16:7:00 -0500
ART - Zinny Warmup My old LPS channel mascot, Zinnia. I just wanted to draw something since it's been slow-goings in terms of art lately

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https://jadeeverstone.com/art/2024/ Mon, 05 Feb 2024 23:24:00 -0500
ART (offsite) - The LPSjadeeverstone archive is open! Rare instance of me making a (normal) youtube video?

Anyways, for the archives I unpriv'ed my old LPStube videos from when I was a teen, and made a video with some thoughts on it, my art, and video making. As of this update, I'm still figuring out where to link to it onsite, but for now, here's some links to said video & youtube channel

Youtube video // Youtube Channel

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I don't plan on doing videos as a regular thing anymore (infact this vid goes into why). But for that channel, having the archive open with a vlog-type video vs only a textbox felt right

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https://jadeeverstone.com/art/2024/ Tues, 30 Jan 2024 13:23:00 -0500
ART - 9:15 Slushie (now onsite!) A few shorts about the experience of going to the convenience store at night, now mirrored onsite!.

spilt slushie preview

This comic is still available on itch.io for download & offline reading: Itch page

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https://jadeeverstone.com/art/comic/slushie/ Wed, 24 Jan 2024 13:00:00 -0500
ART - it's snowing again still haven't shaken off the feeling of unease entering 2024.

but it snowed a few times at least. it was nice to look at, I guess that's something

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https://jadeeverstone.com/art/2024/ Thur, 18 Jan 2024 21:51:00 -0500
SITE - The Custom Toy Archive While there's still plenty of work to be done for this gallery, the Custom Toy Archive is now open.

A collection of works that often gets swept to the side by me, despite it being a huge part of my art journey.

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https://jadeeverstone.com/art/customtoy/ Mon, 08 Jan 2024 09:47:00 -0500
BLOG - Art Goals for 2024 It’s a few days into the new year. While the feelings of uncertainty from 2023 still lingers, I set myself a handful of goals going forward to give myself some sense of direction, 8 in fact, though I’ll mostly be focusing on my art-related goals here.

Technical improvement isn’t a major focus this year (I mean, I just did 4+ years of that lol). I think it’s time to focus on more external factors of art, like gaining some stability, pouring more focus into doing it part-time while maintaining the personal side. As well as strengthening skills not directly related to illustration. It’s something that’s fell to the wayside until senior year of college, and now that I’m out of school I think at least for this year I can let these factors overtake direct art improvement.

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https://jadeeverstone.com/everlog/posts/2024-01-07-artgoals Sun, 07 Jan 2024 11:03:00 -0500
SITE - Happy New Years! It seems the New Year has come. Let's keep our heads afloat, shall we?
In other words, it's 2024!

As a minor update for the New Year, 2023's gallery now has a proper description and the 2024 page is open. There's nothing there yet, but I figured it'd be best to open the page now for the art yet to come.

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https://jadeeverstone.com/art/ Mon, 01 Jan 2024 12:16:00 -0500
BLOG - 2023 Summary of art It's that time of year again.

Another design-y layout. Noticed this year I ended up using a lot more light color schemes than last year. I guess it's because this year I wasn't really feeling the same level of 'edge' and 'excitement'. But that's a point for later on. Before that, let's talk about each piece from this year.

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https://jadeeverstone.com/everlog/posts/2023-12-27-Art-Summary-2023 Wed, 27 Dec 2023 13:38:00 -0500
ART - A Holiday Toast! Happy Holidays! Here's a pic of Jpeg and Risa having some hot chocolate together.

Jpeg and Risa dressed up in winter & festive gear sharing a toast with hot chocolate

This pic was done for a Christmas collab hosted by Zoiby on Toyhouse!
You can check out the full collab over here! (thread link)

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https://jadeeverstone.com/art/2023/ Sat, 23 Dec 2023 13:16:00 -0500
ART (offsite) - PC-Mania's now off hiatus! ! This project is offsite!

Now off hiatus; PC-Mania! A short webseries about Jade and Iri needing to replace their computer and soon, that goal will go downhill. This one ended up getting delayed to do post-college fatigue hitting harder than expected. But I'm ready to pick it up and start working on it again!

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https://jadeeverstone.com/art/comic/pcmania/ Tues, 19 Dec 2023 20:55:00 -0500
SITE - Nat's Free Art Software List Currently linked in my Outbound page - Nat's Free Art Software List! Originally compiled on toyhouse, but has since been moved on-site. A large collection of free art-related softwares I've heard of or used myself

With how advanced and fleshed out free and/or open source programs have gotten, I think they deserve way more time in the limelight. So reguardless if you're looking for a place to start or just want to try something new, I hope this list becomes handy for people who may stumble across it.

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https://jadeeverstone.com/links/artsoftware Thurs, 14 Dec 2023 22:33:00 -0500
ART - Io Becomes Marketable Plastic Toy Well, in concept. Io as an LPS bat! I made one design based off actual LPS bat molds, and the other is original mold idea to fit their true form better.

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https://jadeeverstone.com/art/2023/ Wed, 13 Dec 2023 11:55:00 -0500
ART - Jpeg and Risa Render Jpeg, and their unconventional roomate Risa

With both of them having been updated over the past 2 years, I think it's about time they got a render together

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https://jadeeverstone.com/art/2023/ Wed, 29 Nov 2023 22:22:00 -0500
ART - 9:15 Slushie - Now on Itch.io! Five nights, one week, one slushie machine

A few shorts about the experience of going to the convenience store at night.
Now available on Itch.io!*

jpeg and risa leaving the store with slushies

*This comic will be mirrored here in the future. Though for the time being, you can grab the PWYW PDF on itch!

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https://jadeeverstone.com/art/comic/slushie/ Sat, 25 Nov 2023 17:40:00 -0500
ART - Old art Archives the 2018 & older archives. With me leaving DeviantArt once more, I've decided it's about time to go through and archive my old art onsite.

While it's far from representative of my current work (we're talking art from highschool), I do occasionally refrence some of my older art for redraws, retrospectives, etc. and would like to not have to rely on DeviantArt as an archive going forward. There's still a few stragglers and larger projects I need to compress & post here, but I think this site's now a comprehensive enough archive of my art from 2014-now.

So if you're looking for some 'vintage' art from me, you can now visit them over here.

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https://jadeeverstone.com/art/ Fri, 03 Nov 2023 14:00:00 -0500
ART - Spines - An Unfinished Story Now archived onsite; an older, long-defunct project of mine titled Spines

Two once close friends, now distant after the utterly bizarre happens to one of them.

This project was started in late 2020, but had never seen completion. A few other notes on how it would've ended and why the project failed has also been added onsite.

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https://jadeeverstone.com/art/comic/spines/ Mon, 23 Oct 2023 16:17:00 -0500
ART - 2020, 2021, and 2022 gallery extension I've recently decided to stop posting to DeviantArt again and with 2020-2022 already nearly having parity with the DA galleries, I finally sat down, compressed and added the pics that weren't already here (+ a few I never posted on DA). And as such I've removed the "extended DA gallery" links for those pages

There are a few pics I haven't backed up (noteably: pics with gore since I don't have an onsite filtering system yet, vent art, & two pics that weren't on my external hard drive) But outside of that for 2020 onward this site's a far more comprehensive archive than what I had on DA.

Here's a sample of what I archived.

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https://jadeeverstone.com/art/ Fri, 20 Oct 2023 20:45:00 -0500
ART - 2019 archive page In preparation for when I get around to archiving my 2019 art summaries, some older art has been archived onsite. While not representative of the type of work I do today, I think it's neat to at least keep my art summary highlights up. See how far i've gone & changed over the years, yunno?

In the meantime, here's some old ALT fanart I did

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https://jadeeverstone.com/art/2019/ Mon, 16 Oct 2023 23:45:00 -0500
ART - Chessbots A project from 2022, now live onsite!
A character design series & mini world building project about chess-themed robots.

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https://jadeeverstone.com/art/2022/chessbots/index.html Mon, 09 Oct 2023 23:30:00 -0500
ART - Rocket Render A mixed-digital render for an OC I redesigned last year, Rocket! In her updated story, she's an old android who was built to fight in a war against demons, but has since retired to help out her hometown's farm.

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https://jadeeverstone.com/art/2023/ Thurs, 04 Oct 2023 23:50:00 -0500
ART - Artfight backlog - 2019, 2021-23 Took a while to due to not knowing how to sort them, but I decided for now it's best to dump them in the main gallery since I'd rather not have this large chunk of character art examples missing (especially as commission examples, since I point to the onsite gallery for those). Initially was gonna be just 2023 & 22, but I also backed up 2019 & 2021 as well. (2020 I didn't participate, & 2018 doesn't have an onsite gallery yet)

Here's some highlights from those years! (usernames noted are their artfight users)

in order:
Fate Man was drawn for Lady_Nuggetz
Beanie was drawn for BlizzardBrute

below are 2021 & 2019 and are less representative of my current art

in order:
Buppy was drawn for RabbitJaguar
Mina was drawn for Mioumi

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https://jadeeverstone.com/art/ Sat, 30 Sept 2023 15:52:00 -0500
ART - Blue-er Skies (and more!) A pic I made to promo my Bluesky page on some of my socials, since I've been enjoying it more than some of my other sites lately. If you're also on there, You can follow me at jadeeverstone.bsky.social

Additionally, added a few more pics to the 2023 gallery. Some of them were on the site before, but hadn't made it to the main gallery for one reason or another. Others hadn't been posted here beforehand.

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https://jadeeverstone.com/art/2023/ Thurs, 21 Sept 2023 22:13:00 -0500
SITE - Gallery Updates: Layout and Tabs Did a major overhaul for the main year galleries and how they look. Notably, swapping to a masonry-style layout. This change was mostly for my own ease-of-updating. As the old style layout required me to shuffle images around every time I added something to avoid awkward gaps on the edges. And as I back-up more pics onsite and with me planning on swapping out the current lightbox for one that requires multiple divs, swapping to something that doesn't break as much on updating will keep things easier on me in the long run.

While I have yet to finalize something for the main galleries, Comics have been swapped to a separate type of gallery. For comics, I needed something something that allows both descriptions (for bonus notes & context) and images to be displayed larger than it would be in a lightbox (ease of reading).

Whew... That was an update. I think I'll need a break before doing any more site-wide tweaks.

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https://jadeeverstone.com/art/ Wed, 20 Sept 2023 13:55:00 -0500
ART - Me and Io mixed-digital 'warm-up' piece feat. rare drawing of my self, and Reploid! Io

I hadn't finished a traditional art piece since May (at least one outside of my sketchbook) so I wanted to get the ball rolling again with a bit of personal art

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https://jadeeverstone.com/art/2023/ Tues, 01 Sept 2023 18:38:00 -0500
BLOG + ART - Out-of-Season 2021-20 Art Summary archives With how fickle platforms these days tend to be, I'm looking to migrate my older art summaries onsite. This time it's 2020 & 2021!

2020 // 2021

The galleries for each respective year have been updated to reflect this. As of right now I'm not looking to migrate all of my older art on site, just what's relevant (I feel it's worth directing my energy elsewhere at the moment)

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https://jadeeverstone.com/art/ Fri, 11 Aug 2023 12:55:00 -0500
Art - Incidental Porridge My contribution to GOOD EATS: An OC Zine! Jade helps Iri salvage a pot of rice & make it into a rice porridge.

You can find the zine available for free here!

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https://jadeeverstone.com/art/comic/ Tues, 08 Aug 2023 17:32:00 -0500
Art - Autumn Travels My contribution to Window to Worlds 2023! Iri and Jade here had just wrapped up a small day trip and are waiting for the train home.

You can find the zine available for free here!

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https://jadeeverstone.com/art/2023/ Tues, 01 Aug 2023 15:26:00 -0500
Art - Birthday the 20th In otherwords, it's Thursday the 20th (and my birthday too!)

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https://jadeeverstone.com/art/2023/ Thur, 20 Jul 2023 16:30:00 -0500
BLOG - Magia Mechanica - Thoughts on a Canned Project This post is an archive of a few twitter posts. They have been slightly altered to fit the format of the text archive.

For some context; This started as a separate post about Io & how I didn’t expect them to make it past a few artworks. I made a second thread later about a canned project Io's original design was based off, 'Magia Mechanica'

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https://jadeeverstone.com/everlog/posts/2023-07-12-magiaretrospective Wed, 12 Jul 2023 15:51:00 -0500
ART - ENTERING DEPTHS A very last minute Mermay pic (as in finished May 31st).

This actually was close to being my grad cap design, but I ended up canning it due to the main figure being too complex (would've been hard to cut out!) Wasn't gonna leave the lineart sitting there so here we are

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https://jadeeverstone.com/art/2023/ Mon, 5 June 2023 16:23:00 -0500
BLOG - PC-Mania! Official Announcement A fuller announcement post for my aforementioned project, PC-Mania!

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https://jadeeverstone.com/everlog/posts/2023-05-10-PC-Mania-announce Wed, 10 May 2023 15:51:00 -0500
ART - California Rasin you ever just feel like a california rasin?

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https://jadeeverstone.com/art/2023/ Mon, 8 May 2023 10:33:00 -0500
ART - PC-Mania! It's a project that's been in the works for the past year or so.

Synopsis: After Jade and Iri's computer breaks, the two of them rush to the store to find a new one. The one they roll with? It's a tad bit off...

Just the onsite landing page for now. More info to be released soon and I'm very excited to finally launch this!

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https://jadeeverstone.com/art/comic/pcmania/ Wed, 3 May 2023 23:45:00 -0500
ART - Battle with the Lake Demon A re-imagining of an older piece; a battle with a lake demon is nearing it's end as the hunter gains the upper hand

The original piece has also been added to the 2021 gallery for comparison. Similar concept; but a team battle against giant enemy crabs!

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https://jadeeverstone.com/art/2023/ Tues, 18 Apr 2023 13:07:00 -0500
ART - Xander Revolution! (concept) + some gallery re-arranging Moved "fowl powder play" to it's own section on the comics page + added the two mock covers that go with it! For context, this project was a concept for a comic series centered around a fandom; the fandom in question being rhythm games!

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https://jadeeverstone.com/art/comic/ Tues, 11 Apr 2023 16:55:00 -0500
ART - F4SH10N F4SH10N (spoofed by Nat)

(for those who don't know, here's F4SH10N - composed by aran)

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https://jadeeverstone.com/art/2023/ Mon, 10 Apr 2023 09:00:00 -0500
ART - Fowl Powder Play (+ a few other pics) Newest feature, a comic 'test page' of sorts.

An rhythm game player battles for the fate of the arcade; win and it stays as is. Loose, and the venue gets bought out. Something seems off during the competition...

Also, over the past few days a few new pics were added to the 2023 gallery

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https://jadeeverstone.com/art/comic/ Fri, 7 Apr 2023 01:26:00 -0500
ART - More 2023 art, 'serious' subsite Added three new pictures to the 2023 gallery

But also, I've made recently made a more 'serious' portfolio site. It was more for a course I'm taking this semester and I'm not sure how much I'll use it going forward. But if you're interested you can find it at portfolio.jadeeverstone.com

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https://jadeeverstone.com/art/2023 Thurs, 23 Mar 2023 12:51:00 -0500
ART - Spotting an Ouroboros A group of four paranormal investigators hear rumors about a giant 'hoopsnake' in the area from locals. But what would a 'hoopsnake' be doing in the north-east? And why would it be leaving trails of energy? (2pg short)

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https://jadeeverstone.com/art/comic Mon, 13 Mar 2023 19:00:00 -0500
ART - How to Drive to Work (in the event of a mech battle) In the year 31XX, you may encounter a mech battle on your path to work, might be a way around it though...

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https://jade-everstone.neocities.org/art/comic Wed, 14 Feb 2023 12:27:00 -0500
ART - Rocket's First Mission (2020) An older comic of mine, Rocket's First Mission is (finally) archived onsite!

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https://jade-everstone.neocities.org/art/comic/rocket/ Wed, 8 Feb 2023 00:11:50 -0500
ART - Io, meets Io! First finished art of 2023; Io, meets Io!

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https://jade-everstone.neocities.org/art/2023/ Mon, 30 Jan 2023 00:22:50 -0500
SITE / ART - Removed "legacy pages", More 2023 art A few 'legacy' pages (notably the old illustration & comics pages) that were on the old layout have now been removed, as they've long been replaced.

Five images were added to the 2022 gallery.

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https://jade-everstone.neocities.org/art/2022/ Wed, 25 Jan 2023 00:15:20 -0500
BLOG - Blog Section's fixed now + Life updates ig Basically, for the past month titles, post dates, post navs were broken on this section of the site. The reason seems to be on neocities' end. IIRC, neocities no longer displays the .html tag on page urls, which ended up messing with Zonelets's script because it needed to check for the .html tag...

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https://jade-everstone.neocities.org/everlog/posts/2023-01-16-blog-fix-life-stuff Mon, 16 Jan 2023 00:23:20 -0500
SITE - Layout Archive New page: The Layout archives! A look back at how the site's changed, with explanations of what I was going for each time.

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https://jade-everstone.neocities.org/labs/layout Thurs, 12 Jan 2023 00:22:55 -0500
SITE - New Layout! A (belated) Happy New Years! And what better way to start off 2023 than with a new layout?

With me adding more things & changing how I use this site since I made it, I wanted to switch to something a bit sleeker (and the sidebar was long overdue for an update...)
As of sending this the Main site is ported over to the new layout, but the project pages have yet to move over.

If things look wonky onsite, try hard-refreshing the page.

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https://jade-everstone.neocities.org/ Mon, 2 Jan 2023 00:00:00 -0500
BLOG - Art Summary 2022 The yearly tradition returns: 2022's Summary of Art!

And hey, I did something a little more design-y than my past ones! Will admit it was a bit tricky to fit each month's pics into the frames this time but I'm glad I tried a different look than usual

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https://jade-everstone.neocities.org/everlog/posts/2022-12-25-Art-Summary-2022.html Sun, 25 Dec 2022 00:54:00 -0500
SITE - Under-the-Hood Changes In the middle of reorganizing pics in the site. With me using this more, I'm gonna be adding way more pics and the way i organized it before would get messy for me to find pics.

On site, if pics are broken, try hard-refreshing the page

For this feed, I won't update pics on it to avoid spamming old messages

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https://jade-everstone.neocities.org/ Mon, 19 Dec 2022 22:12:00 -0500
SITE - Outbound page now live! Looking for more sites to peruse? The Outbound page is now live!

The Outbound Page

Contains links to fellow webneighbors, resources, and more! And I do plan on updating it with more links as I go

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https://jade-everstone.neocities.org/outbound.html Sun, 18 Dec 2022 15:40:00 -0500
BLOG - On Art and the Web (a manifesto) Authors Note: This took a while to (re)write honestly. Especially in light of 2022 (jesus christ it's a terrible year for artists), and being close to the end of college as of first posting It's been a weird time. Like, rethinking how I want to do art and what the hell I'm gonna do. Hell, the way I wanted to take this site even changed during making this. But I guess this requires another blog entry & more time to sort out. But I'm glad at least I have a better "site manifesto" and some statement about myself on this world-wide-web.

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https://jade-everstone.neocities.org/everlog/posts/2022-12-14-On-Art-and-the-Web.html Thurs, 15 Dec 2022 00:00:00 -0500
ART - Lan Party!, Acid (comic) New pics

Lan Party!

Bonus: They Couldn't find a spot for her...

Acid: a short experimental comic

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https://jade-everstone.neocities.org/Portfolio_main.html Tue, 13 Dec 2022 21:00:00 -5000
SHOWCASE - Design Showcase New Project page!

A collection of selected works done for my graphic design class, Fall 2022

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https://jade-everstone.neocities.org/design.html Mon, 12 Dec 2022 15:35:00 +0000
BLOG - Everlog, Start! Heyo! So, this is my first post over here. And I'm glad I managed to find a way to have a blog/textpost-section on site.

Especially within the past few months, I've been trying to establish this website as a platform. Social media and art sites have been getting on my nerves lately (except for Newgrounds. knock on wood). So i figured hey, why not make my own website my own place?...

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https://jade-everstone.neocities.org/everlog/posts/2022-12-03-Everlog-Start.html Sat, 3 Dec 2022 14:50:00 +0000
Hello there! Heyo! And welcome to my RSS feed! (just like the old web!) I figured since my goal with this site is to turn it into a platform that I should have an RSS feed. That way people can get notified when I dropped a big update or a lot of new pieces with less hassle As of right now this feed is manually updated. And my most recent site update is adding this feed, plus a few more pics to my main portfolio https://jade-everstone.neocities.org/ Tue, 1 Nov 2022 23:47:00 +0000 ART - Hellspawn, Wagoogus Added two pics to my main gallery;

HELLSPAWN - EVIL PIC! made for halloween last month

Wagoogus - Small character illust. of a grey-headed flying fox... and their bananas... lots of them

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https://jade-everstone.neocities.org/Portfolio_main.html Thu, 3 Nov 2022 00:33:00 +0000
ART - The Fowl Pest (mock cover) A new pic, a mock-comic cover for a personal worldbuilding project of mine (featuring, Io!)

Basic concept; In a 22XX, a strange, demonic creature makes its way to a small town. The head of the town's farm, an old robot named Rocket teams up with Io to ward it off.

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https://jade-everstone.neocities.org/Portfolio_main.html Fri, 4 Nov 2022 21:16:00 +0000