#willware

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SUPER 1

Super 1 was originally going to be a series of all the letters in the word Super, but like a true ADHD kid i stopped after the first one lol. this uses a perspective warping technique that's less technically complex than it looks – i originally sketched this one on paper!

the grid lines aren't fully erased here so it's a little raw, but it gives a good idea of how the underlying grid works. a surprising number of my mazes in this journal use a compass in some form or fashion...

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Roughshod

this one's a simple maze, but i really love the pattern and at some point i might do a bigger one like this! the underlying pattern here is an alternate take on a diagonal maze – so maybe i could adapt one of my existing diagonal mazes to match...

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Rotary

this one is another mess of parallel passages and the first maze i ever digitized. some people say it's hard to look at, and i don't blame them!

it's small on paper, but that's because it uses a half-size grid – iirc, having nine spirals of a fixed size was just a couple squares too large for the full page...

[skysometric]

It took long enough to nail everything down, but I think I’m finally done with my new avatar. Working on this was quite the learning experience!

WIP1: This was kind of the mockup stage. I knew the general shape I wanted, but I had no idea what specific colors to use, how to highlight the W effectively, whether the outline would work, etc.

WIP2: I changed the outline to a shadowy effect - I wanted it to look like a window into another world. This didn’t pan out so well, so I removed it in future iterations. Tried to refine the colors a bit more, but I still couldn’t figure them out.

WIP3: It was about this time that I realized I was basically going for a Material Design look, so I researched Google’s design documentation and a few tutorials on getting the shadows and colors to look right. 

WIP4: Decided to redo the geometry from scratch - some of the objects didn’t appear to be lined up quite right. I made it slightly smaller so that it could be comfortably resized to 100px. A friend suggested that the purple was too bright, so I toned it down to match the blues more closely. I also reduced the shadows because they were jumping out at me too much.

Final: I wanted the shadows to only draw along the W, so I redid the geometry again to add some shadow masks underneath the shapes. I also changed the cyan to be more blue than green, while still keeping it the same kind of relatively bright color. The results speak for themselves!

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Freefall

i've always loved experimenting with giving my mazes a 3D effect – besides just looking cool, they open the door to making unique solutions. this one is quite the glow-up compared to how it looked on paper!

it's a little raw, but not half bad for making this before high school! i even tried to give it a cute logo at the bottom~

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Diamond Hex

this is one of my best ones from before high school, when i started to take the craft "more seriously" (knowingly or not). the parallel paths here are hard to follow, you may want to use a pen or stylus!

back when i used to carry my journal around with me, this is one that i was always SO proud of showing off – it looks absolutely gorgeous in person!

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Cracked

i love the pattern on this one, it looks like some kind of flooring! ...i don't think that's what i intended when i first made it, but that's how it looks now lol

this one looks nearly just as good on paper – not that i'm good at photographing these things, lol

y'know, flipping through my graph paper journal to get pics for these reminds me that i have a lot of good candidates for future mazes to digitize...

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Astral Flex

one of the first mazes i did fully digital without sketching it out first – it's just too big for paper! go from one dot to the other and back again along a different path.