AZ

Apollonian Blog

My Profile Images

So my profile images are usually white on #66CCFF, sometimes in grayscale to commemorate some one or something special. But I do seldomly design special editions for special occasions, such as:

Qixi Festival

2018/08/16 | Qixi (Chinese Valentine’s Day)

Why not red? In Chinese culture love is not that straightforward, a softer color like this conveys that idea better. And it so happens to align with the blue-pink-white color scheme, hmmm.

Luck in Year of the Pig

2019/02/04 | 福 in Year of the Pig

This morphs the Chinese character 福 (upside down) into my initials (AZ). Took me a while to come up with this–honestly speaking–excellent design. It even has a tiny pig tail!

WWDC Neon

2019/05/30 | WWDC19

I happened to learn how to make Neon effect in my high school computer graphics class. But unfortunately, me winning their Scholarships that year didn’t happen.

Christmas

2019/12/18 | Christmas

Back in 2017 people were putting xmas hats on their avatars, so I made one with fluffy xmas hat. But it didn’t look that well, so I made this one in Keynote using their shapes library.

Pride

2020/06/01 | Pride 🏳️‍🌈

So this is my second attempt. I tried to make one of these on my birthday 2 years ago, but the result didn’t turn out too well. Though I like this sticker kind of look and feel, will probably release an even better design in the future.

Halloween

2020/10/29 | Halloween

Since I just got an iPad, why not draw an avatar? This is definitely more interesting than just just changing the color scheme (like I did in 2018), but I’ll maybe use orange as the background next time so I can add black cats and bats