Log entry #6

17th July 2024

I expanded the about page a little bit. I think I want to make the webpage a little bit more personal. Not to the point of making shrines and such - while I like exploring them, personally I don't think I'm the sort of person to enjoy working on that :P but I want my website to be a bit more connected to the small web. I will work on a link section next time. Looks like my unemployment journey is soon to be over so who knows when that time will come.

Log entry #5

21st June 2024

I fixed the size of the website button because it was too big for some reason? XD not sure what I was thinking when I made it.

Adding some pixel art to the gallery!

This one was for the now closed Nokia Art Jam that I accidentally stumbled upon few months ago. It's great to see some love for the old nokia style in the wild, I am very happy someone hosted it.

Other little things:

Experimenting with something for RPG maker.

My friend's dog!

Retro styled me as a Pokemon trainer, done when I was playing Legends Arceus.

Log entry #4

18th June 2024

Haven't been around for a while. It's weird how easy it is to fall back into the "modern" web, so to say. It kills a lot of motivations for little projects like this one. And it's not even like I don't have time, since I'm unemployed again :P I dunno. Hopefully I will feel a bit better and I will be more around soon. Neocities feel more cozy than any social media I've been on.

I have a lot of plans for the website actually, but I've added a small rambling about pixels for now. I will probably add some new pixel art soon. The rest, who knows?

Log entry #3

23th September 2023

Added an article about tools I use and made that whole article area look a bit better. And made this log entry place into a scroll. I was so confused as to why I couldn't get it to work but apparently Firefox is just like that.

Log entry #2

9th September 2023

Did some cleaning up in the menu, made my own space for rambles a while ago that I wanna use more often. Everything here looks very rough but I will consider it part of the charm.

Log entry #1

11th January 2023

I've created this website.

It's a small website. As it contains mostly my art for now, feel free to browse around, it shouldn't take long to check everything out! If you can leave a trace in a Guestbook, that would be great. Cheers.

About me

I'm Ren, also known as Zawieja. I'm 24 years old, I'm from Poland, and I love old web and all things retro! The fascination with pixel art started with the idea for a surreal game stylised for a nokia phone. It seemed like too good of an idea to pass by. Hopefully I can learn to properly make it at some point - sure, I can draw in many different styles, but making games is hard!

I also like cats a lot. Can you tell?

I'm interested in many things. I wanted to be a graphic designer, illustrator, 2D animator, UX/UI designer, a writer, an ornithologist, a microbiologist... Ultimately, I am just myself, with random knowledge in many different subjects.

My biggest interests (or obsessions) currently include:

Slavic and finnish mythology; also pre-Indoeuropean culture
Cats; especially cat breeds
Birds
Warrior Cats (infected my brain when I was 10 years old and never went away)
Persona 2 (for some reason? probably a temporary interest :P)

Other favorites:

Video games: Night in The Woods, Undertale, Hollow Knight, Pokemon, Persona Series, Earthbound, Chrono Trigger are my favourites
Anime: Natsume Yuujinchou, Mo Dao Zu Shi, Slayers, Digimon, One Piece, Akatsuki no Yona, Ghibli stuff, Revolutionary Girl Utena, Yu Yu Hakusho
Cartoons: The Owl House, Gravity Falls, Over the Garden Wall
Books: Lord of The Rings, Ranger's Apprentice, Chronicles of Ancient Darkness

Stamps and such

Pixel art

I make pixel art for fun sometimes.

Project goner

Project made with the intetion of creating a surreal nokia-styled surreal platformer game that I previously called Book of Waste. You are a cat in an abandoned city, dreaming of seeing the world in color.

On-hold.