⚒ About

Q: What inspired your site's design?
A: Geologic field notes. I want it to look like someone found these scribbles in the field somewhere, showing notes, sketches, and photos haphazardly stuck into the notebook.

Q: Where do you get your pictures from?
A: Outside.

Q: No seriously, where?!!
A: Most of my photos are from the southwestern United States, either from vacation or from work. You can find a log of my travels here. Also I use Dithermark to edit my images.

Q: What camera do you use to take your photos?
A: I use a Nikon D3300 DSLR camera with the default lens, an Olympus Tough TG-6 (digicam), OR my phone camera (Samsung Galaxy Note 9).

Q: May I use your site assets?
A: Depends on which one you are asking for and for what usage. Please reach out and ask!

Q: Where can I contact you if something on your site is broken or incorrect?
A: You can drop a message in my guestbook or message me at Geoledgy[at]proton.me. I am aware that there are some errors on the mobile site display.

Q: What are your art tools?
A: I use a Wacom Bamboo Capture tablet and pen, or an iPad Pro with an Apple pen to draw digitally. For art programs, I use Clip Studio Paint and Procreate.

Q: What brushes/etc. do you use?
A: This is a lot so I'll add this later lol. For now, just ask directly! Please also refer to the image I drew so I can correctly identify the brushes used.

Q: What are your sources of inspiration?
A: This is also a lot so this will be added later too. I'll do a quick list for now: blink-182, pop punk music, Clone High, My Life as a Teenage Robot, Hanna-Barbera cartoons, Samurai Jack, various mid-century artists, western landscapes artists, abstract artists...................honestly I might make a blog post for this in the future lol.

Q: How do you pick your vibrant colors?
A: I reference mid-century art or just bump up the saturation to as close to 100 as I can. One thing I like to do is substitute black and white with purple and light yellow, respectively. Or I just drop a color gradient and adjust to my liking. It's difficult to explain but I really just try to choose the most saturated colors possible.

Q: I heard you work for Cartoon Network. Is that true?
A: I work as their on-site geologist that does routine checks to make sure their building isn't sinking after I was demoted for forming a volcano in the boarding room.

Q: Are you actually a geologist?
A: No, of course not! This degree is totally fake!

Q: What is your favorite rock?
A: diorite, peridotite, kimberlite. If it exploded out of a volcano or cooled from a pluton, I like it.

Q: And your favorite mineral?
A: fluorite, cumengeite, torbernite, copper-ore minerals, radioactive minerals

Q: What about volcano?
A: In general, I really like cinder cones and monogenetic volcanic fields. My favorite volcanoes are: Sunset Crater (and the San Francisco volcanic field) in Arizona, Tahoma/Mount Rainier in Washington, and the Trans-Pecos volcanic field in Texas.

Q: Being a volcanologist sounds so cool! How did you become one?
A: A volcano blew up my wife.

Q: But what's the real story?
A: A bunch of volcanologists thought I was cute wandering around a hotel with a volcano shirt and showed me around like I was their newly adopted kitten. Also I got a degree in geology and do volcano research.

Q: Are you _
A: You can make any headcanons about me that you want if it helps you sleep at night.

Q: When is your birthday?
A: Today.

Q: How many languages do you know?
A: English, Tiếng Việt, Español, and 日本語. Fluent in the first two, literate in Spanish, and rusty in Japanese.

Q: Can I hear more about your original characters?
A: I'm shy...but you can see an entire website I put together for them here. They're all based off of rocks and minerals.