Portfolio Log Book-ness...

These pictures are all from my logbook I did to design my portfolio... :)

^Wireframe design for my layout... This is pretty much how it turned out too! :)

^First designs of what the site would look like!

^More designs...

^Cloud button designs...

^Developed ideas...

^Picture I drew to copy from for my flash I wanted on my home page...

^More developed ideas for other pages... Saying I want things to look like they're stuck in with masking tape and post-it notes...

^What the final site looks like... ^_^

Rediscovering: Graham Sutherland

I was first introduced to Graham Sutherland when I was in college and I really loved him then, but I recently watched a program on him and I found out that he used to pick up random things off the street, beaches or in woods and bring them home with him to draw, and anyone who knows me well knows that I have bags of things I have found around places, from broken bits from mugs to strangely shaped stones... This does explain the attention to detail that he has and I like to have when drawing or painting...

[An East End Street] I really like all of his war pieces... With this one especially, I love how the fronts of the houses look so real and the part of a brick wall showing looks almost crude and like it has been done by a child... Is that nasty to say?

[Road at Porthclais with Setting Sun] I just put this image up as it was in the program I watched... But to be honest I'm not a massive fan of this one or the other ones like it, I'm not going to lie... I wonder where Porthclais is? Shows how much I was listening doesn't it?



[Mountain] I think the reason Graham Sutherlan really appealed to me in the first place is the fact that he uses all kind of media to create his art... And as a lot of his work is based on Welsh landscapes, it reminds me of the Manx countryside...


[Thorn Structure] I have always liked this piece and I think it's because in some ways it reminds me of the intricate designs by Archibald Knox...

Website Evaluation.

Above is a screen shot of the home page of my website. Being the first ever website I have created I decided to keep it simple and keep the original logo and colours that the shop (COW) already had, which was mostly a light blue, but I thought I would change that to a patterned vintage wallpaper, as it is still sticking to there colours, but adding more character. I also decided to make up a little tag line for them being, 'We are not sheep.' Which I put on the footer so it would stay in the same place and be on every page. I wanted all of the pages of the site to have the same set up with different content.

COW do not have a website at all at the moment and claim to not want one as they have a blog... So I could pretty much put anything I wanted onto the site.

I added some jQuery and JavaScript routines to my website including pop up boxes and used the mouseover routine on the image on my front page, I think this adds to the site and draws you in as it's on the first page.

I think my website is a good representation of the shop in Nottingham as it has a vintage feel and is simple, easy to navigate and not too high maintenance.

Portfolioness

This is what I have done of my portfolio so far, when in action the bumble bee flies across the screen and all the clouds are buttons... :)

Simon Lewty

I really like this guy... His work is not dissimilar to my pictures I drew on the squiggly lines worksheet... His stuff is really quite strange and I love the way he mixes text and images... I used to do that all the time at college but got told off for it... I think I shall bring that baby back!

This one reminds me of the animation from the children's show, 'Grizzly Tales For Gruesome Kids.'

The Site So Far...

Ergh... I am so bad at coding, probablys because I've been off so much, I really am sick of being sick though... Badness! But anyways, I've done a design in photoshop of what I'd like the web site to look like, and what I have actually done so far... :/

What I'd like the site to look like... But with a different background that I have made myself not just a random picture...

And this is what it looks like so far... Hmm... There's room for improvement to put it nicely... I really want to make it so the blue background stays in one place and the white strip just scrolls down, but, what a surprise, I have no idea how to do that...

My Portfolio Design...

I think if I could design my portfolio anyway I could, I'd pretty much just have a big Flash file... I really like little carttony style websites that move, like in mine I would have bees and butterflies buzzing around and the cloud buttons moving slowly in the wind... :)

This is a quick wireframe for my portfolio... Everything in a box... :)