Sorting out my Homepage

This a visual, and frankly easier way of demonstrating how I got my homepage sorted. I think it looks better before i put the badmouth on there, which is something ill have a think about for the next time. It's too over crowded so you cant really pick out any of the detail. shame on me.

I drew all the components, with a bitta shading but primarily black and white, and then dropped on the colour using photoshop.

Creating a wireframe

I’ve raged it all the way through this blog, I wanna work with kids, writing and illustrating books, some sort of CBBC buzz, games, websites, not bothered, so when we got set the task of a portfolio I thought it was gonna be ace. The amount of possibility and direction to take a brief like this caused me to about drown, you’ll see in a later post how I just switched styles and directions, haha my overall websites abit crap and disjointed.

I had a gander at a few existing websites, www.johnny-flynn.com being one that heavily influenced my wireframe. The idea of a border, and inset of text seemed one that’d be nice and simple, n not too much of a ball ache to create for a first website. I ended up adapting it quite a lot, but the basic set up is there.

Another website was gilesgoodenmusic.co.uk .its about the simplest thing ever, and the idea of pure images and hotspots rather than text links that go that shitty purple when you click on them was something I was definitely swayed towards. Haha I liked his site so much I gave him an email telling him. He wasn’t too impressed.

I knew right from the offset I wanted to have some kind of interactive navigation, I wanted to get stuck into flash and have some sort of animation game thing going on, but since computers are my kryptonite, I gave up after a few hours of messing around and getting no where. It’s something I’m gonna youtube up on ready for my second attempt.
I ended up having a few illustrations for the Home, About, Portfolio and Contact page. Tadaaa

Cos I’m just oozing with wit, I changed it to brain for home, guts for about, and soul for work, the contact button changed depending on the surroundings of the page, or the world you entered. Lack of time management led me to making my fifth page a simple enter the site thing. Haha.

the whole theme i wanted to go for was every page being  different environment, a new world that was full of weird and wonderful things to have a look at, my lack of skills stopped any of them being playable.ive probably already written this abit further up the page but its 8 o clock and ive just woken from a nap, and im in a rush.

everythings gettin well above my head

i need t start making time for jus illustrating and messin around without it needing to be for anything.

sat down to carry on with my website and it just isnt me, i think im gonna re do the whole thing, gotta lot to do now, just started animation.

im about 6 blog posts behind,and stuff is gettin about outta hand.

HASMITA CHAVDA ! for you mate.

hotmails playin games and wont let me attach any pictures, or any thing so my illustration for The Wave is on 'ere.
the other one was abit of a mess so ive ditched it.

Bring on moving image..

Mood Board

This has killed any hopes I had of an early night.

We were asked to create a moodboard, n since i hoard anything i like the looks of, i found this a pretty effortless endevour. I think because of my graphic design background im gonna get on well with this project; creating a website, or portfolio of our work. Digital ME.

Ive got a massive typography fetish, haha cheers Kim Burdett, so this is gonna be ace,i think interactive is fast becomin a clear winner for my choice of pathway next year, i hope its cos i like it more, rather than im copping out. Its the easiest to put your mark on. I'm gonna give it till end fo the year before i fully decide, but im lovin both projects weve been given, the html isnt that bad, its all on the internet now, bit logical really the way its done, so porbs be alright with it again. I reckon the best way to get this project goin is alot of thumbnails n sketches and research, i need to decide what part of myself i wanna put across, what i actually like, or what i wanna go into. thats gonna be an iffy one, im goin to look into a way of combining them both seamlessly, and creating my own identity online thatll hopefully do me some good.