Happy Holidays! [ speed coding ]

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hi I hope you are doing well it is almost the holidays I'm going on vacation soon and I've been super unproductive too sadly I haven't finished up my image series that so that is going to take off or when me looking at automation I know I promised it for this week but it just never happened but I didn't want to leave you empty-handed so I just came into Illustrator and spend about 10 minutes working on this way a little nice snowman here and what I want to do is code this up with CSS and have a bit of fun with it now I'm not a CSS expert when it comes to drawing stuff like this so I don't know how successful I'm actually gonna be it's a bit of a challenge to myself and there's something fun that I can do now instead of you know I haven't had time to research and do all the other stuff that I normally do for a video so I'm just going to record myself doing this and speed it way up so it's gonna be a little speed coding happy holidays video for you guys sorry if it's not what you were hoping for but I hope you do like it anyway I think it's gonna be fun and yeah enjoy and at the end of the video I'll have a bit of news on what I'm planning on for the new year so yeah let's go and see how I can actually turn this vector into a nice little CSS drawing and also as I said I'm not a CSS I'm not very good at doing this it's not something I do on a regular basis or I actually draw stuff in just with CSS so if you watch it you go oh I could have done that better let me know in the comments I'd love to know on ways I can improve on doing stuff like this even if it's not something I'd think I'll be doing on a regular basis so yeah let's jump right into it let's go outside snow is falling down and every child is having so much fun but snowman is twice the size it's me it's quirky it's mine but holding hands keep each other warm while we stand and watch a choir perform and all the Christmas songs that we love get all the Christmas songs that we love and then while we're gonna go inside and drink our chocolate by the cuz all I want is to spend this day with you let me give you a Christmas moment will feel love enjoy the beautiful kissing on a mistletoes baby with you I don't need any presents as long as I spend this day with you it's a beautiful kissing on a mistletoe baby with you making plans well I'm gonna do I feel so blessed that I can be with you [Music] [Music] let me give you [Music] [Music] and then while we're gonna go inside and drink our chocolate by the fire cuz all I want is to spend this day with you let me give you a Christmas [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] you [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] and we have it guys changed a little bit didn't put the snowflakes run into some trouble with the arms and I really have no idea how I was gonna plan on doing that with the bend plus the hands I was in used some pseudo elements and then I just said yeah it's not gonna happen I ran into a ton of trouble with the trees so that was really frustrating for something that was really I don't know I'm tired I think and took me a while to figure out what was going on there and I knew it should have been working the way I was expecting it to and it just nothing was working the way I was expecting it to so it's a little bit frustrating but I'm happy I got there in the end so thank you so much for watching I hope you like this a bit was fun to watch I enjoyed doing it the snowmen turned out definitely better than I expected him to I didn't think he'd turn out so good there was some things I was just like with the calc and the using the VAR for the heights here and stuff there was things I didn't need to do the way I did I could have used pixels positioning for a lot of stuff that I didn't I was going to get around to the Hat but that looks fine the way it is I think turns into the shape but so as you can see now I have brought it up under code pen just because my thought wasn't working and I knew it would here because I shared it I added the font to what I use on my code pens so you can come off here you can fork it you can check out everything I'm gonna put the link to this below so if you want to play around with it or see what I did you know break it down a little more you're more than welcome to or fork it and do whatever you want with it if you do something fun share it hopefully YouTube doesn't tag it as spam but if it does I'll try and filter it back in see I'm gonna be taking a 2 weeks off now and when we come back I'm gonna finish off the picture series at one point I don't know if it's gonna be the first thing I do there's two videos left in there that I want to do they're gonna be short term to medium term what I plan on doing for the new year and I'm also going to sort of just go back to basics and designing building out just like a site or in maybe not a site but sections the designing code thing I think I want to bring back and stuff like that so if you have any suggestions for all of that please let me know I just I've been focusing a lot on like specific things and I just I feel like just building some stuff that's fun to build like this I really enjoyed doing this even though it's kept me up way past my bedtime so I really hope you enjoyed it and I hope you have a very happy holidays hopefully you have some holidays that you can sit and enjoy and relax and you get a little bit of quiet time to yourself whether it's one day or a couple of weeks off or whatever it is so I look forward to seeing you again in two weeks and until then don't forget to make your corner the internet just a little bit more awesome