Checkpoint 3: Offer & receive

[nepenthee]

Hello! How is the challenge going for you?

We have had some more sign-ups in the last while, and it’s nice to see that the event being well underway isn’t deterring people from joining. :> The event playlist is also coming along; if you happen to listen to something fitting while working on your site, do consider sharing with us!

This checkpoint’s theme is as follows: Post a WIP of your challenge shrine and ask something you’d like hear about from your fellow webmasters, web-related or not. This can be as specific or abstract as you’d like (e.g. a paragraph, a crop of the layout header, a colour scheme; coding input, style concerns, writing advice, tools etc.).

You are welcome to use this post to chat about anything related to the challenge even if you do not take part in the checkpoint theme.

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[nepenthee]

This checkpoint is posted later than planned, sorry. My past few weeks have been very full, weekends included. I hope that my coming weekends will stay free and that I can chat a bit more here soon.

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An excerpt from my shrine's introduction:

That is not the case here. There is no clear message that I need to convey. (The story speaks for itself.) In its stead: an intangible sort of sorrow and sympathy. Perhaps what I want to express this time is simply that: a sentiment, to show that something existed, that it mattered, to call attention to it so that it will not be forgotten. In more sentimental terms, one could say that the drafting of this shrine is an act akin to mourning, an attempt to make sense of what it is that I am feeling as I wade through the mire of my own emotions. In this manner, this shrine is as much of an autopsy as it is something someplace between elegy and requiem.

Something I'd love to know:

Do you have any favourite DeviantArt accounts/galleries/collections when it comes to layout resources (e.g. textures, brushes)? :>

[evenstar]

In this manner, this shrine is as much of an autopsy as it is something someplace between elegy and requiem.
Oh, I feel that like an arrow to the heart. Just beautiful.

I have no whole galleries/accounts I favour, I've realised! O.O; I have a thing where I find a new set of brushes, use them to death, end up getting my attention taken away by something offline...and then forgetting I have them and searching for new ones~ XD Oops. I've been slightly obsessed with differentxdreamz's brushes lately, though...very ethereal and ghostlike ♥

[nepenthee]

I will admit that after all this time, I don't even have personal go-to sets of brushes yet (neither decorative ones nor for drawing/erasing) and have largely been using Photoshop's limited default ones... So I'm happy for any recommendations, and also just to see what people like using! :D Credits sections are fun to browse, but hearing it from the persons themselves is different.