>>1932933Alright, so here I go.
I always start off ricing with a sketch of the layout I'm going for. Pic related, it's not a very complex set of sketches at all and it's more for me to figure out what the hell I'm doing than for artistic anything. It's just easier for me to figure this out now than before I begin, since I can then work towards a cohesive whole concept rather than piecing together elements one at a time haphazardly. I went through a few different layouts and what I need in them — for example, a sketch where the music was instead represented with a bar containing the cover art for the album currently playing instead of just the music info text (I scrapped that idea because it took up too much room in my opinion) and some similar ideas that I ultimately decided I didn't like as much. I usually only really need a set of app icons for my most-used apps, a clock, and music controls, but sometimes I like to try to add more if I can. This time, I decided not to. When I decided on one, I looked for some wallpapers on pixiv and danbooru, as well as flickr and /wg/. I settled on a few and went through the process of elimination to decide on only two, which took a while to be honest since there were a few I was very fond of. I usually have the most trouble with picking wallpapers.
From there, it's all KLWP (unless I'm using Tasker). I'll get into that in a follow-up post since it can be difficult to explain in a short way (and I'm closer to the character limit than not).
