NIGHTEN's blog
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Nathan Guilhot
Bonjour ! I'm Nighten, but some people call me Nathan Guilhot. I work as a programmer, but I'm also an artist, and I sometimes write Visual Novels.
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I was a bit melancholic about the internet yesterday, but I realize now that the feeling mostly came from the fact that search is very broken almost everywhere Outside of fedi nobody uses hashtags anymore. So if you want to discover new...
Posted by NIGHTEN on December 20, 2025 In September 2024, I finally took the leap and launched my art newsletter, something I was dreaming about for months beforehand. Flash-forward to 2025, and I still kept the habit of publishing one...
Artists often have this shame about “promoting” what they are doing, even if it’s something they do for no monetary gain. They are afraid of bothering people, or they are doing the bare minimum when they have a new piece to show. This is...
Never make art for social media This is not a joke. You want to make art for fun? Don’t make art for social media.You want to work in the industry and have your art published? Don’t make art for social media.You want to be famous on...
Posted by NIGHTEN on November 03, 2025 Located east of the country, this city (commonly called the Blue Roof City for its iconic tiles) is quiet and unremarkable for the untrained eye. Except maybe for the proximity of the mountain in...
I’m very critical of my art. I put a lot of effort into my illustrations, but each time I finish a piece I can’t help but clearly see all the flaws: The anatomy is wrong, the subject not interesting enough, those details distracting, or...
I came across this post by @Jo , that captured a feeling I’ve had for a long time: “Fun internet Theory” states that there are still a lot of cool and interesting things to do online. This is a reference to the Dead Internet Theory,...
Posted by NIGHTEN on July 28, 2025 I wanted to brainstorm an idea with you: How to reuse a single art into multiple posts. This is especially important for me, as I prefer to make fewer illustration that I can repost at any time -...
Posted by NIGHTEN on June 15, 2025 Someone asked me, so I want to make it clear: No, I don't offer commissions, and never will. Here are my reasons:
Posted by NIGHTEN on June 14, 2025 Hello! This is a comic I made for the "8-godzinny Maraton Komiksowy 2025" event in Krakow.
For personal website, one type of content that I think works uniquely well is the kind of page that gets updated sporadically, and is not time specific So basically instead of making a blog post "Favorite games of 2024" you have a page...
Posted by NIGHTEN on August 18, 2024 It has been a good while since I've last shared progress on "Hi, Welcome to Froggy's!", my silly time management game about surviving the night shift at your local Froggy's store. Progress has been...
Posted by NIGHTEN on July 14, 2024 We were stuck in an airport for several hours now. I was already supposed to arrive the day before, and I didn't know at the time, but I would have to wait another 9 hours before reaching my...
While being stranded for 24h in Germany and Paris’ airport, I finished a first version of a “Mastodon Unroller”, a simple way to take activitypub threads and make clean article out of them in your Astro website. After a few iteration I...
Tired of your boring day job? Do you need new opportunities and an unlimited supply of cheap coffee? Well, you're in luck, because your local Froggy's store is looking for a talented and hardworking person for the night shift! Hi! Today...