Having started this journey quite late in life, It took me years to be able to call myself an artist. It was just a hobby; something I did in my free time. Now that I have fully embraced it, I find myself making things not exactly artistic most of the time.

I didn’t plan to learn how to build websites. In fact, for the longest time I actively avoided it. Well I am an artiste now, you know?

But then life (as it often does) dragged me somewhere I didn’t expect to go: into the abyss of WordPress admin panels, DNS records, child themes, plugin conflicts, robots.txt files, caching rules, .htaccess syntax, database queries and what in the god fucking damn is a cron job?!?!

What I thought would be a quick detour turned into a long, strange battle. A thousand tiny things breaking silently, and then mysteriously fixing themselves. A plugin update that erases your layout or worse: you trying to make your website safe to then realize that no payment is going through and now it's jail time, HANDS UP MOTHERFUCKER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

And me, somewhere between curiosity and despair, trying to piece together how it all fits.

I’ve now built two websites: One for my Portuguese-speaking audience, one for the global crowd.

3DMASTERCLASS.COM.BR 

3DMASTERCLASS.ART

Same bones, different skins. I ended up learning way more than I wanted to: how to gate content, structure flexible fields, manage payments, block bad bots without blocking everyone, and even how to make my own custom LMS plugin. It's all part of the invisible architecture behind the work people see.

The thing is, this too is art. Not in the romantic sense, but in the very real sense that you’re shaping something: a structure, an experience, a tiny world out of nothing through the lens of an aesthetic vision. You bend logic and rules and tools into something that (hopefully) makes sense to another person, who arrives at your page looking for something and finds it.

I now find it all a very beautiful. All the little buttons, rounded corners, box shadows, CSS trickery in the frontend while logic and security handle it all in the backend. Ahh, even the database now has a weird beauty...

I haven't said a thing about teaching yet but that's also pretty clearly something I enjoy doing. The same care and love put into the inner workings of the site was put into the courses themselves. Long hours of recording, editing and even trying a few FUNNY SCHEMES here and there that I think you'll appreciate.

This post is a personal reflection on building my teaching platform, the biggest artistic project of my life. It’s not a promotion or paid advertisement.

Thank you and sorry.