Exiting updates!
Website
My art is my biggest passion, and I want people to be able to discover me and see previews of cool things I’ve done. It is fully SFW, so yes - you can share it with your mom. You can also access the gallery from it.
Wait... what?! A GALLERY?!
Gallery
Yes, that’s right. We have a sexy, gorgeous, amazing gallery!!
But why!?
Well, for a few reasons.
It was always bugging me that all my work was kind of trapped by the narrow limit of a single post. To combat scrapers, I can’t post original/high quality images directly into posts, and posts themselves just slowly disappear and fade into the depths of the feed.
Dropbox preview is also laggy, slow, and really not suitable for viewing all my art in its full glory. And if you wanted to find a newly posted image, you had to go digging through the unorganized mess that my archive had become.
And in these uncertain times, it feels better not to keep everything in one basket. The gallery is fully under my control, and I’ll be able to post whatever I want there without big platforms watching too closely... well, at least not too closely.
So... the gallery is the answer to all of these problems.
It is fully organized from scratch, searchable, filterable by tag, year, and addition date, blazing fast, and has (will have:) a ton of extra info.
No more searching for the image in Dropbox! Now you’ll be redirected straight from the post to the exact image so you can view it in its full unbound glory and download it right away.
And if there are multiple variants of the same image, they are bundled together in one neat view!
And very important: the current flow is NOT changing. I'm still will post images on Patreon. You will still be able to access the full archive through the Dropbox link, just now through the gallery in a much nicer way.
Dropbox is still fully there!
You still have full access to Dropbox for archive downloads, timelapses, and videos. Nothing changed on that part.
Few things to note about the archive
I’ve recompressed all my images into lossless jpg. This reduced the archive size by about 3x while keeping the quality the same. So now all 450+ images are tightly packed into a download of under 4GB. There are no changes to dimensions whatsoever.
The archive was also reorganized from scratch into:
Game > Character > Series
If an artwork has more than one variant, it gets its own folder. If not, it goes into the main Character folder. It fully reflects the gallery folder structure.
I do want to switch the old IMAGE archive with the new one, so you have until the end of the month to download the old one, if for some reason you want to keep both.
Again: nothing is removed. Everything is just reorganized and recompressed.
And believe me, I checked image by image to make sure the quality stayed the same.
ALL CHANGES ARE ONLY FOR IMAGES. Animations and timelapses are exactly the same.
P.S.
The gallery is still a work in progress. I’m still updating metadata and descriptions, so eventually each image will have some interesting insight attached to it.
Ordering by year may not work properly yet, and there will definitely be some bugs here and there, but the only way for me to start ironing those out is to make it available to you :)
Let me know asap if you have any issues accessing the gallery or dropbox!
Enjoy!
Comments (10)
Did you mean "exciting"?
Yes I was too excited to type :)
Oh, this is beautiful ❤️ I’ll definitely be sharing it in my family group chat xD The website looks great, and the gallery idea is very nice, it’s working really well! All in all, congratulations, Koelet! Not only do you always deliver great work, but you also pay attention to the whole experience, which is admirable. By the way, I’ve always been kind of curious to ask / if you don’t mind, of course :) / where does your name come from, and what would be the correct pronunciation? I’m asking because I’ve talked about your work with some friends before and wasn’t sure whether I was pronouncing your name correctly haha.
Thank you! Glad you like it! I'm tying to be an attractive package :) Its ko-e-let. I was sad boy in the school and one of my favorites book was Ecclesiastes (Koheleth in Hebrew), you know, "Vanity of vanities! All is futile!" :) Ecclesiastes is a bit heavy for a nick name so i thought hebrew word will be cooler but I also was a quite stupid boy and could not write it down correctly. :) It was a long long time ago. But I still like it :)
We're eating like kings today! Small note, the "Support" section on the main page has the heading, "Keep the desire burn." Is it supposed to say, "Keep the desire burning."?
Thank you! Fixed :)
Great work on the gallery!
Peak.
Fantastic news
Nice one and congratulations on the Launch. Gonna have a look later tonight.
