About Me: Zelv
Zelv is a pseudonym I started using ages ago on the internet and I haven’t found one I like better. Nowadays I operate under the username triptychtalk, which is more like a brand than a name, but either works. I grew up and still live in the southern US.
Much of what illustrative skills I have come from pursuing it as my main hobby. My driving force in creating things is either dissatisfaction or “You know what would be funny?” I enjoy saturated color palettes and currently work mostly in Clip Studio Paint.
In 2019, I decided to draw with me, myself, and I as my main audience. This was unfortunate timing to embrace the joys in life. Things happened, jobs were quit, things got better, and for the first time in a long time I’m feeling pretty okay. I hope, if you’re not there yet, that one day you’ll feel pretty okay too.
You can find me on Tumblr and Twitter.
My Neocities profile is here.
See something that needs fixing? E-mail me at triptychtalk[at]gmail.com.
About the Site
I began to build this site in November 2023 when I finally admitted to myself that I was bad at social media.
I’d still post occasionally, of course – where else would I find the fandom? - but I’ve never been good at actively engaging with folks on the internet. I also wanted somewhere I could show my art, all together, in one place.
Plus, let’s be honest, I was getting tired of the increasing sameness of the internet. I had heard of Neocities years back and remembered the joy of creating a Geocities site once upon a time.
Update Log
November 1, 2024: Happy belated Halloween! Still-under-construction update to Halloween shrine. New drawing in KH Fanart.
September 8, 2024: Minor code fix and image file organization of shrines, plus placeholders for Halloween shrine.
August 15, 2024: Writing updated: Digital Garden and McKay's Road Trip posted.
August 13, 2024: Merged splash and Home pages; merged About Me and About the Site into single About page.
May 13, 2024: Two pieces added to KH Fanart. Guestbook removed from Links page due to impending host shutdown.
April 10, 2024: Shrines for Saïx and Xemnas added to Silliness.
April 8, 2024: Pages now properly sorted into folders instead of a single level.
March 29, 2024: Gallery and KH Fanart now divided by year, guestbook iframe now part of Links. Other minor fixes.
March 27, 2024: Shuffled homepage layout, small updates throughout site.
March 16, 2024: New image in Gallery.
February 17(+19), 2024: finally finished the KH20th February illustration. (+new sketch in Gallery)
January 29, 2024: new sketch in KH Fanart, took out menu dropdowns and added landing page for Writing (coming...eventually).
January 12(+13), 2024: added landing pages for the dropdown parts of the navigation bar. (+completed December illustration!)
January 5(+8), 2024: overhauled KH20th Project. Each month now has its own page. (+new sketch in KH Gallery)
December 15, 2023: refined alt attributes, merged Update Log page into new About the Site page.
December 8, 2023: updated/added Animal Crossing and Kingdom Hearts Silliness pages, added Guestbook.
December 4, 2023: added alternate text to all Art thumbnails, added select Inktober pieces to Gallery.
December 1, 2023: full launch of site.
November 29, 2023: created Neocities account, uploaded splash page.
late November 2023: a lot of fiddling.
November 17, 2023: began work in Dreamweaver.
November 15, 2023: initial code sketch created in Notepad, began sorting and formatting images for gallery.
November 8, 2023: pen and paper notes/thumbnails. Began reading through W3Schools sections on HTML and CSS, browsing Neocities to figure out what I want for a site.