About Me

🛰️ Elko's Creation Notes

Hi! Welcome to the website. I'm Elko, a first-year student at SCAD, majoring in Animation and Concept Design. This site began as a simple experiment—a place to learn, document, and create.

I'm passionate about drawing, worldbuilding, and visual storytelling. Here, I'll be sharing my progress, creative notes, and selected works as I explore what it means to design coherent worlds and stories through images. I was born red-green color deficient, but I still love painting, and I am also left-handed.

The Star of Departure is my long-term world-building project—a story of humanity rebuilding civilization on an alien world, a world divided between coexistence and war. In the end, will humanity learn to live with the alien, or destroy it to survive?

For this project, my goal is to create a tightly constructed hard science fiction narrative—one that is logically coherent and self-consistent, while also exploring profound philosophical ideas, maintaining narrative unity, and presenting technology that feels believable and grounded.

This website is still growing. Over time, I'll refine its structure and add more of my works, reflections, and visual experiments. Thank you for visiting and being part of this first step.

💐Acknowledgments

Thanks to the Astro team for providing an excellent starter template that made it possible to begin building this site with clarity and creative freedom.

Thanks to my friend Peter Pan for providing technical support.

Thanks to GitHub for providing free hosting for my website.

🛠️Webpage Production Log

Web Development Log

2025/10/27
A subscription feature based on https://buttondown.com/ was created

2025/10/26
1, The position of the displayed pictures in the list can be adjusted
2, Streamline website resources

2025/10/25
1, Developed post pinning and corner badge functions
2, Created a simple process for adding new Blog and Portfolio posts
3, Added Markdown features for text centering and highlight effects that adapt to dark mode

2025/10/24
1, Added dark mode and search features
2, Moved the Featured Portfolio page content to Home
3, Moved the original Home content to About
4, Initialized Blog and Portfolio functions so the editor can automatically detect new Markdown files and generate posts
5, Added the Contact page

2025/10/23
1, Optimized the lightbox and made it into a reusable component
2, Improved mobile layout and added a hamburger menu

2025/10/22
1, Built the website lightbox function for enlarging images
2, Fixed the issue where directly referenced images did not display correctly on GitHub

2025/10/21
1, Created the Featured Portfolio page
2, Added contact information to the lower bar
3, Optimized page layout and visual arrangement

2025/10/20
Created the basic Home, Blog, Portfolio, and About page interfaces

2025/10/19 1, Created the website project
2, Completed the Home page
3, Built the Header and Footer