Dark Rose

Oh Lord

I am kind of, totally, well, utterly disappointed with how I’ve let Dark Rose sit here in silence for another three weeks. My ability to completly ignore my own personal website is kind of depressing, but not nearly as much as the fact as how I’ve been trying to make a bright new design for it for ages and still have nothing to show for it.

One of the things that I’ve noticed recently with my websites is that I can whip up a design pretty quickly for just about everything but my personal website. My fanlistings? Cake, I remember getting four or five layouts done over the course of a week for them. My friends? The design I made for Kae took me one night and I think it both fits her personality and website fairly well and also looks rather nice.

But man, if it’s for me? I can’t do it. I just can’t. It took me a few weeks to make the current layout too, and even then I don’t think it especially screams my name. This site is mine, it should have “AMBER” written in bolded, italic, neon, capital serif letters (okay, maybe not neon, I hate neon) stamped all over it. Because your website’s design is supposed to reflect who you are, right? At least, that’s what I always read, same goes for content too.

Actually, maybe my current layout does say enough about me. “Hi, I’m Amber, and I am completely uninspired at the moment. In the mean time: my fondness for typography and color use, let me show you them.” Don’t get me wrong, I do like my layout, but I feel like it’s a fairly weak version of my skills. I’d like to feature my art in a design again and make it truly mine, instead of using precise preset shapes; that’s not me, I’m fully capable of making my own stuff, so what am I doing? And yet every time I do go to make a new theme, I end up losing my inspiration or getting a new one. So often do I find myself loving a layout that I’m in the process of making and then suddenly trashing it because I began to hate it half an hour later.

Usually when I lose my inspiration for something, I try to listen to music and get a feel for the outcome I’m looking for. Once I find the song that fits the idea I’m going with most, I listen to it on repeat. Over and over. As I do this habitually on a regular basis, it does not drive me insane and instead keeps me going with my idea. I also like to go to Color Schemers and Color Lovers to try and find schemes that I like enough to incorporate into a design. Ironically, I’ve been uploading color schemes that I’ve both used in past designs and randomly come up with and yet I’m still completely stuck. Apparently there’s ideas in there, I just have to force ‘em out…

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I posted Oh Lord on Sunday, March 8th, 2009 at 2:32 pm in Tangents.

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