About
KawaiiHannah
The artist and developer of this website!
Details
- Name: Hannah
- Pseudonyms: KawaiiHannah or KawaiiHannahArt
- Occupation: Web Developer
- Hobbies: Drawing, painting and coding. I like making stuff.
Favourites
- Colour: Blue, green, purple, brown, gold
- Anime: Frieren, Apothecary Diaries, Stein's Gate, Log Horizon
- Movies: My Neighbor Totoro, Arietty, Nausicaa, Treasure Planet, Atlantis
- Food: Beef Pho
- Drink: Tea (french earl grey, chai, yuzu, licorice, mint)
- Music: Metal (Beartooth, Wage War, I Prevail) and classical (Pachelbel Canon in D - my brain really likes it, anything by Joe Hisaishi)
Bio
I grew up in New Zealand, but live in Australia now 
I have been creating and sharing artwork online since 2003 under the pseudonym KawaiiHannah, when I made my first website. I have a lot of hobbies and find it really difficult to choose between them 
So it's a mixed bag of pixel art, painting anime artwork and building random tools for my website like my random idea generator.
Over the years, I've worked on pixel art for games and custom artwork for avatar-based websites while sharing my knowledge through pixel art tutorials and walkthroughs, but these days I mostly do art as a hobby outside of my job as a web developer. I was once told I'd be sick of web development after two years, buuuuut I'm still not sick of it many years later 
This is still one of my most favourite pieces of artwork, even though it's old now.
KawaiiHannah
Back long ago; when the internet was wild, I had homework I didn’t want to do and Google still counted the pages it searched, there were a bunch of people that made websites about the things they liked, sharing their artwork and interests and I wanted to join them! It also helped that I could do it as part of a project for a class.
KawaiiHannah started as part of KawaiiMMH which was a website I had with some of my school friends back in 2003. We liked trying to code our own websites and draw anime or write stories.
I started a pixel art site in June or so that year named Precious Pixels - another artist also named their website Precious Pixels around the same time, so I ended up going with Precious Pixels KH, or PPKH for short. My sites stayed separate for a bit and then my friend David hosted my website for me in 2005 - I just ended up merging both sites into one, because it was easier. It stayed there for a while with a consistent layout for a couple of years. Then in 2007, I bought the KawaiiHannah domain where it's had it's steampunky style in various forms ever since.
Early artwork
Over one of the school holidays as a young teenager, I wanted to learn to draw anime styled art. There weren't a lot of tutorials around then, but I remember visiting BakaNeko and PolyKarbon a lot to learn. I loved Pokemon, CardCaptor Sakura and pretty much anything by CLAMP at that time, so they were very influential in my early artwork. Old artwork is so old D:
Early Pixel Art
Much of my early pixel art was influenced by other internet dollers (such as Angychan, Francesca and Lola just to name a few), kawaii 2000s gifs and Korean chat site pixel art, such as Sayclub or Candybar - they had such vivid colours and were very cute! That still exists as part of my style even today, but it has been refined over time ^_^
Studio Ghibli is a large source of inspiration for me now, which is also full of bright and beautiful colours, so you can see the theme there xD
Kao Ani
I made these in Microsoft Paint with a mouse and copied each frame into Microsoft Gif Animator at the time, which took AGES, because I had to add a bright green background to add transparency and sometimes I would accidently miss copying a line of pixels, or would place it wrong and have to recopy the frame.
These were based on some of the early 2000s kao ani that I had seen around and liked, but with random themes that I just felt like drawing at the time. There's several with Japanese words or themes, because I was learning Japanese at school and many of the kao ani that I liked came from Japanese sites.
Pixel Dolls
I cringe at the pillow shading of these now, but we all start somewhere! These are some of the early dolls I made - there's still some from 2004 towards the end of my pixel art gallery too, if you want to see more. Apparently I have never stopped liking to draw pretty dresses and absurdly long hair in my artwork.
The very early ones were drawn in Paint and then I moved to Photoshop for everything after that. I drew and pixelled a lot during this time and it really helped me to improve both my digital artwork and my pixel dolls.
