• NAME: TRAVIS!
  • AGE: 22 (10/09)
  • LOCATION: :)
  • PRONOUNS:HE/HIM/IT/ITS/MEOW/MEOWS

OKAY, WHO THE HELL ARE YOU?

My name is Travis, I’m a nonbinary trans man from the UK and to be honest, there isn’t much special to know about me other than I draw. A lot. I’m currently unemployed due to a series of unfortunate events and disablility, slowly putting my life together again, so I use a lot of the free time I have from that towards learning neat things like coding or working on creative projects.

I’ve wanted my own website since pretty much forever, I’ve always been real into the idea of my own little space dedicated to things i enjoy that are decorated how i like them. A fun memory of mine even is being somewhere around age 9 and asking my dad excitedly about if powerpoint could be used to make a website, to which he said yes and i set off on putting slide after slide of stuff together. Of course, websites aren’t built using powerpoint so it inevitably fell through. In the time since then, I filled that void through classic deviantart whenever I had (usually gifted) CORE memberships and toyhouse premade html’s. I’d found out about neocities in 2022, and was massively interested, of course I was, but at the time i didn’t own a laptop, so I just forgot about it for the next couple of years.

I finally made my first attempt at a site last year around April, a janky little place called “digitalcat”. It was far from the best, but it was mine and I loved it! But i stopped having motivation for it after a few months, id coded everything together all too quick, leaving much to be desired from it… so i just abandoned it for a bit, wanting to rebuild it but being very put off from the amount of work id be taking out and having to redo, not really knowing how i wanted to go about it in the redesign, stressing because of how much junk code and files had accumulated from trying various things… it was a mess.

My motivation for starting this one was, really, social media started doing what it usually does, being a nightmare full of angry people, and I started feeling that pull for my own site again. At first I wanted to just revamp digitalcat, but I realised once again, it was all too much of a chore for me to sit and do. I also realised I wanted a less general audiences oriented website, im one of those funny asexuals who enjoys drawing sex things and talking about my favourite characters boinking each other, and it kinda felt like a space i made for the whole of myself…wasn’t actually for the whole of myself, you know? So i just said “ah fuck it” and made a new account and got to work. This time im taking much more time with putting this together, making sure its as good as I can get it and I cant wait to see how it grows, and maybe you’d like to see that too. But I dont know you, so perhaps not. Oh well. (and as a note, none of my nsfw will be hosted here, unless i can password protect it somehow so minors arent just wandering into seeing it. :p you can dm me on any social media I have for where I do post that stuff.)

FURSONAS

INTERESTS

Games: splatoon, bugsnax, no straight roads, minecraft, undertale, deltarune, roblox, animal crossing, night in the woods, ultrakill, house flipper, wobbledogs, stardew valley, cult of the lamb, pokemon (main series. All of them!), pokemon mystery dungeon, transformers: devastation

movies/shows: rocky horror picture show, re-animator, NOPE, killer klowns from outer space, breaking bad, devilman crybaby, transformers(1986), transformers animated, transformers earthspark, transformers g1, transformers one, transformers cyberverse, spongebob, don’t hug me i’m scared, shin godzilla, war of the worlds, the plague dogs, felidae, watership down

Comics: IDW 2005 transformers, transformers 2023

musicians/bands: king gizzard & the lizard wizard, femtanyl, the murlocs, psychedelic porn crumpets, machine girl, gorillaz, rabbit junk, neros day at disneyland, GWAR, the cramps, danzig, my chemical romance, uncle outrage, korn, devin townsend, mailpup, a good few artists i choose not to list cuz of their actions and so i try to not direct people to them,

Hobbies: digital art, traditional art, collaging, making kandi, coding, collecting transformers figures and pokemon plushies, being a furry

QNA

Okay well, truth be told, nobody asks me about things much, but Id like a place to direct people to if they ask me what i think most people would ask of me

What programs and brushes do you use with digital art?

I use just about anything, i enjoy switching up what i use a lot but right now i particularly favor a combo of procreate and clip studio paint (procreate for linework, clip studio for colours)

As for brushes, again I use just about anything, but I've been pretty settled in for a good few months now with a slightly modified version of the small splat brush from pufuus splatoon brush pack for my lines and a simple square brush for shading and highlights.

What materials do you use for traditional art?

I use just about anything, again. Anything from a £1 pack of gel pens I bought at a local store on my way to my nans to India ink and dip pens to a couple sets of posca markers. Paperwise I use, again, anything, printing paper, sheets of mixed media paper from a long forgotten sketchbook from when I was 16, the actual paper of my sketchbook and recently I've tried out bristol board.

Do you have any tips for drawing?

See I'm a fairly good artist. I've been doing it for over a decade so I feel I have a right to say so. But I'm still a terrible teacher with it. My biggest tip really just amounts to the usual just keep doing stuff. Don't weigh yourself down by sticking with a program or brush or material, if you have an idea for a pose you want to draw do it bad, redraw your stuff every so often so you can see your progress on your own, draw things you like, watch others art process videos if you find them, try incorporate things from your favorite artists… ok that's a lot, actually

What do you use to code?

I use Phoenix code to put my code together and make minor adjustments if necessary in the neocities code editor itself (not the most efficient, i know..) it's a fully free coding software you can use in your browser or by downloading it (though if you're using the browser version, be warned it can't be used in certain browsers like firefox.) (Not sponsored i'm just some guy and i hart free resources)

Do you have any tips for coding?

Uhh. No. I'm still a noob at this stuff and me and flexboxes mutually hate each other (seriously man it took me hours to position this page correctly using it and i'm dreading having to use it again.. even the frogs dont help me) so I'm probably not someone worth learning from. I can tell you to just go for it though, figure it out as you go along, poke around others codes and see what different tags you see do. You'll get decent eventually.

Can I take inspiration from your site?

I don't mind as long as it's not a straight copy of the things I've done. That said though, I'd recommend not using my code to do anything, as I've said I'm still new at this and I know there's plenty of parts of my code right now that I'll need to replace going forward for better things once I learn them.

What's the deal with your identity, how are you aroace and bisexual simultaneously? How are you nonbinary and ftm simultaneously?

I don't think I owe people explanations on these, my identity is just a little complex, but I like talking so I'll give the short version on each. Functionally I'm aroace, I have no interest in any other person, sexually or romantically no matter how much I try (and I've tried, believe me.) But I'd like to put an emphasis on functionally. There's still an unignorable degree of attraction to both genders for me, but it's never been enough for me to want to pursue that. As for my gender, my nonbinary/agender identity is more belief than anything. I suffer with ocd and this had a large impact on my gender identity due to rising transphobia. Identifying to a certain degree away from gender at all has been a huge part of how I've been able to recover from that.

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