espy.world

[Sketchbook] izzy

2026-03-14T20:37:00-07:00

[Sketchbook] desert demon

2026-02-27T20:37:00-07:00

Gallery Grid Release!

2026-02-15T10:25:00-07:00

I've released my gallery grid code as a tool for anyone to use!

I know at least two people out there who were interested in my gallery code, so I figured I'd make it a real resource.

Features

Fixed grids and justified grids!
Flexible, suitable for both a full gallery or a simple set of images
Titles and descriptions
Mobile friendly, and supports swipe controls
Supports GIFs and transparent images
Options for scaling and pixelated rendering for pixel art
Comes with a lightbox/image viewer (with keyboard shortcuts)
Pagination support
Sorts and filters support
Thumbnailing
Captions
Fully customizable with CSS
And supports dynamic changes with javascript!

It comes with 4 premade themes!

And a lightbox!

You can read more information and download it from this page.

If you have any questions or comments, feel free to leave a message on this post!

I hope you find this tool useful in some way. :>

Thank you for reading!

Happy gallery making,
Espy

P.S. I've added a for you page on my site, which is where I'll host any tools or resources I've made, like this one!

[Sketchbook] mad scientist espeon

2026-02-11T10:16:00-07:00

[Sketchbook] dream creature

2026-02-01T08:57:00-07:00

I've made a new section of my gallery for my sketchbook related art!

This page is part of a sketchbook that I've started filling out since 2025. It's a depiction of a creature that I saw in a dream.

Pages of my sketchbook that I posted only social media before are here now too!

I look forward to sharing more pages! I've been enjoying doing traditional art lately now that I have more materials. I never was able to do this before, and it's quite fun!

I've been seeking to remove obstacles that made drawing uncomfortable for me, in hopes that it would encourage me to use the sketchbook more.

For example, no more pencil and eraser. I didn't like eraser shavings, and I didn't like how pencil smudged. Felt uncomfortable to me personally.

The next was more color. in the past, I only ever used pencil. I wanted more color and over time I've finally gathered a lot of colored drawing materials that I'm excited about using. I've never felt that feeling before!

The next was the sketchbook itself. There are a lot of big sketchbooks out there, but they didn't feel natural for me to use. I used a small sketchbook (about the size of my palm) in the past, but it ended up feeling restricting to me. I think I've finally found the perfect middle ground.

The next was the way the pages turned. A large part of discomfort with using my sketchbook was how much horizontal space it took when opened. I wanted to focus on one page at a time and I didn't like the struggle of having to hold open the pages of a sketchbook. So I opted for a sketchbook that flips vertically!

Another reason I chose to not use pencil was that I wanted to not bother with erasing mistakes. This was something about traditional art that I wanted to embrace, as well as the more carefree nature of a sketchbook. I hope that this would allow me to commit more.

The biggest change that really helped me, was getting acrylic pens. This allowed me to "erase" my mistakes, by drawing over them. This might seem counterintuitive, but for me, it was technically still "additive" rather than "subtractive", and it just felt nicer than using an eraser. I still felt like I was committing to mistakes (as I'm still still adding onto the piece), without the stress of having to be perfect because I couldn't erase.

I also got washi tape, sticky notes, stuff I saw other people use in their sketchbooks. I find sticky notes to be a great way to add blocks of color, and also cover up stuff if I need. I like the evidence it leaves behind!

Another thing was a change in mindset.

I'm going to draw in the sketchbook with purpose.

I think...that I am not really a casual drawer. At least, not in this phase of my life.

I want to approach this like working on my site. I don't need to do anything crazy and I also...don't need to think too hard! I believe the reason why I can get into coding my site so much, is because it's a relaxing activity for me. It's also because it feels meaningful to work on my site as it's a thing that I look at everyday and represents my space on the web.

It feels like an oxymoron, to create with purpose, and to also be carefree with creating.

Ever since creating my site, I feel I've slowly been able to shut off a lot of anxiety while working on things, and I can just go free. I've been trying to carry that same mentality into drawing. Creating not for social media, but to fill my world.

Let's keep creating,
Espy

[New Zine] when the world stopped moving

2026-01-17T12:17:00-07:00

A one page zine I made back in 2022, which I then riso printed in 2025.

This is a scan of that riso print.

Click here or the image above to read.

Dedicated to everyone in my life that showed me what love was like,
Espy

Addendum

Since this is a new medium of art I'm sharing, I want to share what comes with zines on the site.

First of all, there's a reading mode for this zines that I made that animates the pages as you flip through. I think it's fun. I hope you enjoy it.

Now, onto what a one page zine is.

It's a kind of zine that is made entirely on a single piece of paper, which is then folded into a little booklet.

I've provided a page where you can download these pages already setup and you can print and fold them yourself to have! There are also instructions on how to fold a one-page zine if you don't know how.

I hope these features allow for a nice experience reading these zines, and I hope you can enjoy printing and folding these zines yourself if you ever want to have them physically. Thank you for reading!

Status & Mood

2026-01-14T17:35:00-07:00

I've made a status.cafe! And an imood.

I've added both of these to both my home page and also my webmaster page.

(By the way, I LOVE how much you can customize on status.cafe. In addition, the inability to directly edit most of the HTML means you have to get creative with how you use CSS. Even making just this, I learned a lot of new things about the power of CSS on its own.)

I've made accounts on microblogging sites before, most notably sites like Bluesky, Twitter, Tumblr, etcetera. But the idea of actually doing the microblogging of sharing thoughts about my life, or my day, just felt very intimidating to me.

I feel like I've got too many eyes on me with social media.

On the other sites, it feels like you put a thought out there into the world, and it tries to find its way to as many people as possible. Here, it feels more like leaving a thought somewhere, and letting other people find it. More suited for the indie web, I'd say.

Despite it all, I still have a desire to share something. I look forward to whatever I decide to share to whoever comes across it in this corner of the web. :)

Love,
Espy

P.S. I've been doing some work on releasing a gallery/lightbox widget (the one I use throughout the site). I look forward to when I'm able to share some news about that!

[New Art] fire

2026-01-11T19:25:00-07:00

Technically not new art. This was made in 2024. I realized I never properly uploaded this onto the site, so I figured I'd do so and take the opportunity to talk about this one.

Most of the time when I make art, I don't upload it until a long time later. This is because posting is typically an arduous process for me.

This art was an exception. I actually posted it near the time I actually made it. Why was this an exception?

Well, it's because during this time, I had a very very strong feeling. And I felt that I needed to express it now!

While making this art, I discovered a new way of drawing that ended up helping me a lot. I often didn't like the way my art looked as a WIP. It always felt like...nails on chalk. Getting a paper cut. Unpleasant. Something about the way it looked. I don't often share art that isn't rendered as a result.

However, due to the nature of wanting to draw and share this in the moment, I realized that I needed to figure out a style that I could draw quickly and unrendered in that didn't result in that unpleasant feeling.

Thus, the style that was used in this art was born. And I've used it for almost every other art after it. It's a very subtle change. I've simply changed the brush I used for sketching to a much less smooth one.

It feels like cleaning up a room, taking a shower, etcetera. A small change that improves the way drawing feels to me just enough.

To this day, one of my favorite things I've ever made. And as for what I needed to express so badly...well, I won't explain it here! I'll let the art do the talking. :P

With love,
Espy

[New Art] guup patterns

2026-01-10T09:46:00-07:00

The first art of 2026. Practicing drawing intricate patterns. It's something that I want more of in my art.

Happy New Year 2026

2025-12-31T08:39:00-07:00

Graphics

New Year Greetings Post Card

Web Graphics

Did you guys know I don't actually celebrate stuff with my family I just include family to more accurately reference the original video?

Happy new yearrrrr fuckkkkk

Love,
Espy

Art Summary 2025

2025-12-30T06:41:00-07:00

Hello. To summarize this year, I would say that 2025 is the year where I really found a focus in developing this website. I'm not sure if I have much else to say. Art has left my focus for quite some time. I certainly still have art projects I want to do...though I feel I've mostly been drifting aimlessly. I feel okay. Not in despair. Good enough for now.

Creating an art summary is mostly me estimating when I drew the thing, and also using the time of posting as another anchor of what month to place the art. So these are not perfect or consistent summaries, but I don't mind that much.

For example, this year's April art is also the same as 2023's November art. It was a WIP back then, and it's been finished this year. Which gives a good example of how long it can take me to finish a piece.

September's art is art I'm creating for the website! If it's for the website, that seems to motivate me. It's not done yet, so this art summary will provide a little bit of a preview! (Don't get your hopes up, it's not anything too crazy.) (But I should make something crazy.)

December's art was fun. That one makes me smile. Hehe.

I look forward to sharing more stuff with you all. Whether it be visual art, or other mediums.

See you next year,
Espy

nice christmas

2025-12-24T13:35:00-07:00

Reference to this

I've wanted to draw art with Mersé based on that video for so long and I've finally done it. I'm really happy with it I tried to give it a picmix vibe I love how it seems like Mersé is trapped in the Christmas Dimension and is using every bit of willpower they have to try and break free to no avail

Graphics

Golden Winterscape Holiday Post Card Stock

Holiday Web Graphics

I have never made a Christmas art in my life

Have a good one and happy holidays motherfuckers

Love,
Espy

Kirby Air Ridin'

2025-12-22T03:00:00-07:00

Hello! Me and my partner have been obsessed with Kirby Air Riders lately.

I played the original Kirby Air Ride on Gamecube, and I loved loved loved just exploring around the city. I'm stoked that they remastered it!

I'm fascinated at how fun it is to play. It's a bit difficult to get into, but once I got the hang of it, it was a lot more enjoyable than I expected.

I say fascinated, because there are many things about the game that are rather "flawed"? In a technical sense. It both iterates on and retains a lot of the original game design. For example, this game is chaotic as hell, and it's not infrequent that I have no idea what I'm looking at. And they have a whole tutorial and still don't explain what every patch (ex. boost, weight, etc.) does! But I kind of like it that way. It's fun!

It sort of reminds me of roguelites. In this case, I'll compare the Binding of Isaac and Hades. The Binding of Isaac can be very unbalanced, runs can be a slow crawl to an overpowering mess. Hades is more balanced on the contrary, I played that game like crazy and never felt like a single run was unfair. Though I would say Hades is "technically" the better game, the Binding of Isaac still has a certain charm to it because of how imbalanced and player unfriendly it is.

Of course, I like both games. And Binding of Isaac is certainly an older game with less to iterate from. Just stuff I think about.

Thus, I was surprised to see Kirby Air Riders retain the original "flawed" gameplay charm. Especially since this is a modern game from a big studio. I think some players may not find it fun as a result, but I'm personally glad that the game is the way it is.

Also, I've been getting to know the Kirby characters a bit more (my partner's been telling me a lot about them). I'm a big fan of Magolor and Taranza.

OH! I almost forgot to mention. It seems that the team really wanted to capture the feeling of just screwing around. The gummies! Garages to show off your machine customizations that you can invite people to! You can do a free run around the city in multiplayer!

And the paddocks! Something that could easily be a menu, but they made it a little place you can walk around! You can get checklist achievements by being sneaky and hiding in places too. So much that the game didn't need, but they added it anyway. Beautiful.

One thing about the game that has peaked my interest is all of the customization options.

Both the license cards, and the machines!

I won't get too into it, but they have a lot of options! It's Miitopia level customization, if you know what I mean.

Here's my license card, and some of my machines that are on the machine market right now. I might take them off the market at some point, so if you're interested, grab them while you can!

A.Q. from Magia Exedra on Paper Star

Cardcaptor Sakura themed Wing Star

Charlotte from Puella Magi Madoka Magica on Formula Star

Happy Air Riding,
Espy

P.S. So far, I've completed the Air Ride, Top Ride, Road Trip, and Online checklists!

P.P.S. Slither told me he wanted me to share his license card because he's proud of it. Here you go!

[New Comic] The Mall

2025-11-09T12:56:00-07:00

Another comic I originally made back in 2022. Which I also cleaned up. You can read it here. It also includes a bonus page.

The panelling is a bit odd, because I made this as an assignment, and thus it had certain requirements in mind.

In this section, I'm going to talk a whole bunch about stuff I've been dealing with and thinking about recently.

I actually have a fair amount of stuff to post, including comics. Though I hesitate. Sharing comics is...scary! It's words, and feelings.

And I've been rather depressed lately.

It's why I've been so slow to post. Posting requires a certain amount of willpower for me, to either dispel or push past my fears and my doubts and my insecurities. And it's often much easier not to post.

Even as I write, insecurities flood the mind. Is it worth it to share? What do I sound like?

I have a fear. A fear that developed and grew through bad experiences I had with people. A fear of the hidden meaning.

I reflect on times where I learned of the things people said to me, which I thought nothing of, actually had vitriol within them. I had no idea.

I feel paralyzed from speaking. Learning how much you can hide in what appears to be harmless statements. What can my words hide? Even though I'm not trying to put any harm in my words, how can anyone tell? No one can read my mind.

I've become paranoid of the hidden meaning my words could have. Every which way, it could be twisted to mean something cruel, to mean something awful. To be a sign or a signal of something insidious. Knowing and witnessing those hidden meanings come to life, I confess that is most likely the source of my greatest emotional scars.

That original remedy for my anxiety was based on the idea that it was irrational for people to constantly hide cruel intentions inside their words. Throughout my life, I am beginning to encounter things that challenge that belief.

I believe...that I need to build a new foundation for this. Believing in people, even if sometimes the harm I imagined is real. It's a lot harder than it seems, but the thing that's even harder...

...is believing in people to believe in me. Especially since the reasons why I was hurt this way was primarily because people saw hostile hidden meaning in my words that I didn't have and thus, they responded with their own hostile hidden meaning.

I can feel the techniques that I developed to survive are starting to become the things that hinder me. No longer trusting what was said to me by people who injected hidden meanings, developing into no longer trusting everyone around me.

I can't live life so afraid of the spontaneous emergence of the hostile hidden meaning, and I can't spend my life trying to clarify myself as much as possible so that my meaning will always be clear. There will always be something.

I'm uncertain. I am developing insecurities about things that I didn't have before. I wish writing about this could quickly erase these insecurities, though I suppose it's not that easy.

I hope that my existence, my words, are not just "not harmful", but instead, that it can connect to people or be a positive influence in the world in some way.

Goodness. I love art. That is the thought that comes to mind as I look over this comic again. I wish I loved to create art as much as I liked art.

What the hell, how did I make this? I remember the thought process I had coloring this comic again, each technique I used and each change I made and why. Every font I chose and every color I chose and texture I used and why certain lines are colored the way they are.

It's all a bunch of small pieces, gathered to create one big thing. It's hard to imagine myself drawing so much, but it's easier to envision each small part of the bigger picture.

There is something curious about sharing an old comic. They're not the feelings that I would choose to express in art now. I certainly do have some feelings I want to express. I hope I can manifest the willpower for that.

With a heavy heart that still tries to love,
Espy

Espeon Collection Update

2025-10-26T08:12:00-07:00

GOOD MORNING! At last, I've finally taken a full picture of the Espeons in my collection.

(Well, okay, it's not really the full collection. A lot is cut off, and this doesn't include any of the TCG cards or other flats, but I can only fit so much in one picture!)

In addition, a brand new landing page!

This page features:

Statistics on how many Espeons I've collected
Updates (not 1-1 to when I actually obtained the item, just when I update it on the site)
Related log posts talking about this collection

There are a LOT of graphics in here. And it was the most difficult to make small screen friendly. Not just friendly for mobile devices, but friendly for devices such as laptops, or anyone that just happens to have smaller monitor or views the page in a smaller window.

Unrelated, but I love my computer. Perhaps I'll make a seperate log post about PC building someday! I have many thoughts about the process of building a PC!

I...hope that all of the graphics and all the CSS rules aren't too much. It shouldn't be that intensive, despite looks. But there could always be something I'm missing! The code is a bit messy and I'll optimize it later, but as long as it works I'm satisfied for now.

One of the biggest editions to the site is some extra tabs so that you can view the Espeon items by category! This is inspired by other collection sites I've seen, and I quite like viewing them this way. It's cool to be able to read about what the items are at a glance! And you can still click on the items to get a better view.

Espeon is tied to the origin of my identity. I think if I weren't collecting Espeon, I'd be collecting Perrserker (my next favorite Pokémon)! Although I suppose there's no reason why I can't start another collection...Perrserker is not a Pokémon that gets nearly as much items as Espeon, so it would certainly be easier (or harder, in terms of finding such items).

I sometimes do have doubts about collecting. Why put this much effort into collecting a bunch of random merchandise? And especially Espeon, I'm certainly not the first nor the only one to collect Espeons. Having a large collection lends itself to the idea of titles such as "the only collector!" or "the biggest collection!". But is that really all there is, or the reason to collect?

Addendum (12-14-2025): I thought about this a bit more, and I want to add that part of why I think I wrote all of this out was because I felt insecure about having a collection about something "popular". Most likely cuz I read some things people said online a long time ago about other people having large collections about popular things and it really stuck with me.

But man, it's genuinely a good time looking for stuff to collect. These doubts don't benefit me at all. It always seems to steer me towards an insecure way of existing. I try to focus on the joy it brings to share the collection, and to talk about specific items. The sheer maximalism of the act, as well! It's just exciting to look at and indulge in. Focusing on what it means for me, personally, to collect. I suppose that's the lesson for me to learn with the development of this personal website as well, in contrast to having a social media presence.

It doesn't need to be "the" collection to be worth building, it can just be my collection.

...Well, that's enough from me for now! I've been working on this page for a while, and hard at work setting up the collection to be presentable enough for a big group photo! Perhaps you may hear about Perrserkers' in the future as well. :P

Sincerely,
Espy

[New Art] Hornet

2025-10-04T11:31:00-07:00

Greetings. I have been absent due to being captivated by a game known as "Silksong". I have many more thoughts I wish to share about the game, but I shall save those thoughts for another blog post!

The way I've drawn Hornet has evolved quite a bit. Below are previous ways I've drawn Hornet before.

[First] 2017, [Second] 2018

2017 was my first attempt, and she ends up looking pretty close to her canon appearance.

2018 was the next attempt. I wanted to try and draw hornet in a way that felt a bit more like my style. This was around the time I was using thinner lines, which I ended up not really liking in the end. Though I felt that I got more of a handle of Hornet's shape and energy.

I'm satisfied now, with where I've landed with drawing Hornet. I tried really hard to get her energy right, and give the cloak just that right feeling...! Though there's one thing that hasn't changed, and it's that I really like drawing random strings.

Happy 1 month anniversary to Silksong by the way. Goodness, time really moves fast. I'm going to go back to trying to get the speedrun achievement for this game. Garama!

Let's meet again on the road ahead,
Espy

QTPOC Webring Open!

2025-09-12T17:30:00-07:00

I've made a webring!

This is a webring idea I've had sitting in my brain for a LONG time now. As I was looking for webrings to join, this is the one webring that I've wanted to exist and join. Unfortunately, I was never able to find it.

Thus, I suppose there was only one thing left to do. Be the change I wanted to see.

There are a lot of webrings for queer people, and a handful of webrings for POC, but not one for both. This particular intersection is important to me, and seeing that there were IRL communities based around this intersection, I wanted something like this to exist for the indie web.

It is currently accepting members! If you're reading this and you're a queer person of color, I'd love for you to apply if you wish!

Likewise, if you're someone that runs a webring focused around queer people or POC and you want to be an affiliate, feel free to send me an email and I'll link you on the page!

This is my first time making a webring! I've done my best to make sure this webring is accessible to those that do not have javascript enabled. It should also be mobile friendly.

I might describe the meta creation/design of this webring later, but for now, thank you for reading! I'm very excited to have this exist.

Special thanks to the folks at 32-Bit Cafe for helping me make this happen.

With love and hope,
Espy

Log Categories & More

2025-09-07T16:02:00-07:00

I've updated the logs page!

Log Filters and Sorts

Sorts

You can now sort logs by date published!

Log Landing

Screenshots

How the log page looked like before.

The mobile version of the log page.

Art

The City

While creating this page, I realized that I could use my own art as graphics. Some of the graphics for this page feature this piece I made.

Ephemeral City (2021)

I noticed how left and right side of the city can overlap each other if the page width is small enough. I'd really like to make an entire environment on a web page someday using my own art with this in mind.

Ink Stamps

These "stamps" are my own work! They are not the typical web stamps; the stamps that these are referencing are ink stamps.

Theming

The page changes its theme color if you've narrowed down your search to one specific category!

Log Entry Banners

Each log entry is represented by these little banners right here. I use these to both link to log entries and display info about them, even on other parts of the site.

These have always been around, but I've given them a bit of a visual update! And here I'll properly write about them.

Behold, the anatomy of the banner!

1 (top left) - The date and time this log was published.
2 (middle left) - The log title.
3 (bottom left) - The log tags.
- These can be clicked on, and they'll bring you to the log page with entries that match that tag.
4 (bottom right) - Number of comments on the log post.
- This does not show up for log posts with no comments.
- These can be clicked on, and it'll take you to the log page already scrolled to the comments.
5 (right) - The log category.
- These can also be clicked on, and they'll bring you to the log page with entries that match that category.
- If there is no category, clicking on this part will bring you to the log page with entries that do not match any category.

Direct links to the log page with certain filters applied is possible because the filter and sorts system I made supports queries.

The cover is an image I choose, and the color of the banner is based on its category (or lack of).

Log Entry Page

Not much has changed here, except for one little thing.

The font for the title has changed. Now, I'm mentioning this cuz I had to do a bit of a trick to get it to look like this.

The font, without any transforms, looks like this.

I wanted it to be taller, and at first I tried using the transform property to scale it on the Y axis a bit.

However, it turns out scaling things on the Y axis does not update the size of its container, so I ended up with results like this.

Since log titles can come in all sorts of different lengths, that means the height might vary a bit, especially for long titles that might span multiple lines. This screws up the sizing a bit and causes the title to overlap other elements.

My fix for this was to instead make the size of the font extremely huge, and then scale it down on the X axis instead.

Essentially, instead of stretching it like bubble gum, I squish it like an accordian instead.

This allows the height of the title to vary as much as it likes, and I can constrain the width of the title element no matter how long it is. (The reason this works is because I allow an infinite amount of room to expand on for the Y-axis for scrolling, and limited room on the X-axis because of screen widths.)

And presto!

Conclusion

I certainly want to make another log post about the filter and sorts system (which I've been calling the "sifter", because it "sifts" through items) once I flesh it out a bit more with some more features. I use it for other parts of my site too. And I got future plans to create a gallery/lightbox widget that other people can use. I know there's at least two people out there with interest and I'd love to contribute it as a resource. The current system is heavily built into my site so I gotta rework it a bit for more general use plus write up some instructions that people who are not me can understand, haha.

I'm really happy that I actually ended up using the log system I made. It feels so nice to be able to write in a place that isn't social media. Especially since I can do longform blogging this way.

It's also extremely nice that it's my own code. Being able to modify it as much as I want for my needs, in addition to writing scripts that can generate the XML file and such, it feels like it eliminates so many barriers that prevented me from blogging in the first place.

Alright, that's all I got for you for now. I wish you luck in your life and relationships.

Much love,
Espy

[New Art] Confession

2025-08-22T12:20:00-07:00

[New Art] Caution To The Wind

2025-08-15T12:13:00-07:00

Guestbook Revamped

2025-08-06T18:41:00-07:00

I've recently revamped my guestbook!

What was previously placeholder is now styled proper.

As of writing, the guestbook has been signed a total of 101 times.

That's a lot! I never imagined so many people would like my site, much less want to leave a message. It was shocking, to have added a counter to the page and to see that huge number.

I've expressed this sentiment on my neocities profile, but I'd like to take a moment to express the same sentiment here on my website.

Thank you. Thank you to everyone that left a kind message on my guestbook (and even on my neocities)! It means so much more to me than you can imagine. I've struggled time and time again, with feeling like I'm allowed to exist, on several different axes. To feel like I can have a presence on the internet that can have a positive impact on someone else means the world to me.

It always brightens my day to receive a new message.

Thank you with all of my heart,
Espy

Interests Expanded

2025-08-02T17:19:00-07:00

A page expanding further on my interests is now live.

Ah. "Interests". Yes, Yes. I have them. They bring me joy. I think. What is concrete to me, however, is that I have some sort of connection to each thing listed as an "interest" on this page.

This is a page that's been in the works for a while! It can be reached naturally through scrolling at the bottom of the "interests" section of the webmaster page, where you will be prompted to "dive further".

The layout is a bit scuffed, but I'm quite happy with how it turned out. I like how it feels like going underwater. You can click on specific highlighted interests to see additional thoughts I have on them. Feel free to peruse and see the things that I "like" or "enjoy".

Interestingly,
Espy

ArtFight 2025

2025-08-01T16:45:00-07:00

It is officially August. Oh dear. The passage of time is quite horrifying.

August also means that ArtFight for this year has concluded! I wasn't planning to join this year, but changed my mind primarily because I think "Team Fossil" has a cool as hell stamp and I wanted to be able to display it.

I mean, I could still display it without actually joining ArtFight this year. But I'd know the truth.

Since I was at Supercon this month, I was absent around the middle of the month. As a result, this ended up being a light year for me. But I managed to sneak in some attacks near the beginning and end!

Artfight attacks for Pinkbat5, Nynebark, rustyironpole, kannyu, PALEOKNIGHT, and zecon125.

This year, I played around with a new style that I sort of developed by accident. It's the style that I'd like to use for Guup's game, Facility Entra. I'm excited to share progress on that game once I have something substantial to show.

On the receiving end, I got a lot more attacks than I was expecting! There was some particularly amazing art that I received this year that I'd like to stare at for 7239 hours. Goodness, thank you.

I'm definitely going to take next year off for real this time. I might eat my words. We'll see!

See you next year,
Espy

Supercon 2025 & Espeons

2025-07-25T12:41:00-07:00

Greetings! I am back from Florida Supercon with my friends.

What very eventful days! It was a nice time to be there and help my friends, and also to look at the con itself. There were a lot of cool cosplayers, and it brought me joy to see cosplays of characters I recognized! The next time I'm at a con, I should try wearing some sort of cosplay myself...!

I was really happy to see people interested in the stuff that my friends made! I was also really happy to help look for gifts for others while I was exploring the convention. Being in a space with so much excitement and love for art and media and games, it's quite contagious.

I learned a lot about making self/handmade prints during my stay there as well! It's exciting, the prospect of being able to make things with your own hands, instead of having to go through a third party. Something about it feels very...soulful. It's feels much like the feeling one gets when they cook a meal by themselves. It's quite wonderful.

I feel inspired to give a shot at perhaps tabling myself, or at the very least selling things I've made. Probably not at a big con, but perhaps at something a little more small and local, like a zine fest. Especially since I have a lot of minizines that I want to put out there into the world!

As with every con, money was spent.

I never used to spend money in places like these, but then I got a source of income known as "job". And in a space with so much stuff that I like, little things add up. And then at the end of the con when the excitement wears off, there's that hit of dread.

I'm sharing this because there may be someone reading this relating to this, so I'd like to share a piece of insight that someone shared with me that helped me a lot.

When you're buying from people at conventions, especially from artist alley, you're supporting someone! Your money isn't going into a black hole or an immoral corporation like when you're paying rent or bills sometimes, you're helping out someone else with each dollar to help them live their life.

I'm sure it makes people happy when their art goes to someone who cares for it. Just don't go bankrupt, and don't beat yourself up!

The Espeons

There were also Espeons at the con. There are a lot of Espeons at every convention I've been to. People really love the Eeveelutions it seems.

I've also received some Espeons as gifts!

Espeon ex - 034/131 - SV: Prismatic Evolutions (PRE) [Surprise Box Promo]

This card was gifted to me by my friend Pengosolvent!

2017 Espeon GX Premium Collection Pin

This pin was gifted to me by another friend of mine, dvdvante!

A friend of mine a while back told me that thanks to my Espeon collection, looking for gifts for me was a lot easier. I never even considered that, haha!

I'm glad that my inane obsession can help alleviate the work of trying to find a suitable gift, and I hope everyone that has gifted me anything has found the process of giving to me fulfilling. I'm glad to be a part of the experience of gifting, whether giving or receiving. Thank you.

Belated Espeons

I didn't get these Espeons at the time of the convention, but I didn't make a post for them before, so I'll share them here! (From now on, I don't think I'll make a post for every Espeon I get and I might update my collection silently in the future, just to let ya know.)

You may notice that with this I've finally completed the set of Will/Sabrina/Annie's Espeon. Hell yea.

Oh, and one more thing...

2025 Fancy Spring Espeon

I really love this picture I've taken, but more than that I love this Espeon itself!

I have a great fondness for Espeon plushes that deviate from simply just being a standard Espeon plush. This seems to be an Easter themed one! This is probably one of my favorite Espeons of my collection. They are so polite and welcoming!

Whew! That's all from me for now. Enjoy living, my friends.

Spark joy in your life,
Espy

EYECRYPT In-Browser!

2025-07-05T10:47:00-07:00

EYECRYPT is now available in your very own browser!

No external downloads required!

More examples!

For those unfamiliar, EYECRYPT is a tool I released last year that allows one to experiment with using encryption to corrupt an image. I think the resulting images have very fascinating effects.

It is completely client side javascript and works entirely within neocities. It should also be mobile friendly. Though I do reccomend using desktop if it doesn't seem to be working on mobile.

I didn't think this sort of thing was possible on neocities before. But now, I feel like I developed enough of an understanding of how web dev works that I was able to make this possible.

As many know, neocities is static, "client-side", etcetera. That means there's no communication between any server machine and your computer when you browse the site.

If we wanna do anything on a static site, it's gotta be completely doable on the client! And EYECRYPT is indeed one of those things!

To make this work, all that was needed to do is to be able to take a file input from the user, modify the binary of said file, and allow the user to download the result. As a bonus, the canvas element allows me to display the image files.

All of this is possible purely on the user's computer, as long as the right instructions are provided to their machine.

The most difficult part of the process was implementing the encryption algorithm. I could do it myself, but I figured I would look around for any other libraries others have made already. Unsurprisingly, there is both native and non-native support for this. However, the native encryption and the more well-known encryption libraries kept having a strange effect on the images where sometimes, the middle of the image seemed...stretched? I imagine it has something to do with the way it was inputting and outputting data which was different than how I originally implemented it in the executable version.

Luckily, I managed to find a javascrypt implementation of DES that worked perfectly for this purpose! So huge shouts out.

I'm very excited to finally be able to make this process more available!

Feel free to leave a comment here or shoot me an email if you have any questions or find any bugs.

Thanks for reading!

Happy eyecrypting,
Espy

[New Art] high energy understanding

2025-06-14T12:20:00-07:00

Fanart Gallery

2025-06-12T08:11:00-07:00

A gallery hosting my fanart is now open!

I originally had no plans to host fanart on my site, and wanted to use my site primarily for hosting original art.

But I've been looking back at fanart I've done, and I realized there was some art I made that I wanted to host here, so I decided to give them a place on my site.

I spent a lot of time trying to develop a distinct style, and I feel like it shows through the most in fanart.

When I create original art, you see my original vision, simply so.

With fanart, you're able to see the distinction between the original way the character/concept is depicted, and how I depict it.

I made a shift to drawing more original art around...2021? Goodness, how the time flies!

While I still intend to focus on developing my original worlds, perhaps it could be nice to revisit drawing some more fanart on occasion.

Some of the characters I enjoyed drawing the most were:

Spinel from Steven Universe
Hypnos from Hades
Pokémon (any of them)

I like to describe stylization as 'shapes filtered through your soul'. Though it could be more than just 'shapes'!

I hope you enjoy perusing,
Espy

[New Comic] Free Shirt

2025-05-26T17:44:00-07:00

A comic I originally made back in 2022. I've went over it and cleaned it up this year. You can read it here. Enjoy.

3D Art Gallery

2025-05-21T11:30:00-07:00

The 3D art gallery is now open!

I haven't actually done much original 3D art lately. I primarily did a lot of 3D art in 2022, then pivoted my focus elsewhere.

I still want to do more 3D art and I do have at least one unfinished 3D work that I want to share.

I remember when I first got into 3D art. It was awesome. It felt like a combination of everything I loved about coding and art combined into one medium.

You may notice that I did a lot of 3D art for Slitherbop at this time. I have no idea why, but when I saw his art and characters, I decided he was the perfect victim for my 3D practice and was transformed into a scheming fly.

There's also some "test" 3D stuff in this gallery that I thought looked neat and wanted to share.

Like this silly thing I made where I used the model I made of Slither's character Bonbon to test different ways to interpolate between keyframes in an animation.

Or this...I think I remember twisting a really long object into this thing. And I thought it looked like an eye. So I duplicated it and drew over the render.

Or, probably my favorite of my 3D experiments, this room I made to play around with learning shader nodes.

I hope you enjoy, and I hope you look forward to future 3D works from me!

See ya,
Espy

P.S. While making this gallery I ran into a bunch of things I needed to add/change to the structure of my site; hopefully some aspects of browsing my site should be a better experience now!

New Lab Specimens

2025-05-11T17:09:00-07:00

Hello. I've reworked the lab. I've removed some things. And I've added some things too. And it looks different.

I make this log post primarily to comment on the two new specimens that I have invited into the lab today.

My Hypnospace Desktop

This one is just my HypnOS desktop, from the game Hypnospace Outlaw. I love that game, and I remember spending a lot of time tweaking that desktop. I wanted to share it somewhere, so I'm sharing it here in the lab.

The Garden

This is something that I made while experimenting with doing web design stuff back when I first started making this site. I figured it needed a home as well.

Others

There are some other specimens that I have locked away in the lab here. For now! It is my hope that one day they can see the world.

I'm having a good day by the way. I hope you are too.

Until then,
Espy

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espy.world

[Sketchbook] izzy

[Sketchbook] desert demon

Gallery Grid Release!

Features

[Sketchbook] mad scientist espeon

[Sketchbook] dream creature

[New Zine] when the world stopped moving

Addendum

Status & Mood

[New Art] fire

[New Art] guup patterns

Happy New Year 2026

Graphics

Art Summary 2025

nice christmas

Graphics

Kirby Air Ridin'

[New Comic] The Mall

Espeon Collection Update

[New Art] Hornet

QTPOC Webring Open!

I've made a webring!

Log Categories & More

I've updated the logs page!

Log Filters and Sorts

Categories

Naming Convention

Sorts

Log Landing

Screenshots

Art

The City

Ink Stamps

Theming

Log Entry Banners

Log Entry Page

Conclusion

[New Art] Confession

[New Art] Caution To The Wind

Guestbook Revamped

Interests Expanded

A page expanding further on my interests is now live.

ArtFight 2025

Supercon 2025 & Espeons

The Espeons

Belated Espeons

EYECRYPT In-Browser!

More examples!

[New Art] high energy understanding

Fanart Gallery

[New Comic] Free Shirt

3D Art Gallery

New Lab Specimens

My Hypnospace Desktop

The Garden

Others