Website Layout First Draft

Now that my flat book images are in their final stages, I'm moving onto my website layout. These are a couple of color scheme ideas.

Not quite the look that I'm going for but brainstorming always starts out at a trickle. I'll keep you updated on my latest designs.

Flatbook Revisions

Practice makes perfect! After another weekly critique, I've decided once more to add the star behind the Shh Girl emblem. This will make it easier to see her on the flat book pages that include a lot of black space. I removed it previously because I wasn't sure if the star made my emblem too gaudy but as it turns out, it actually helps it pop just that much more! Check it out!

Ok, you can't see it on this one, but this is the new revised flat book layout. Notice that I have removed the border. This is to give each piece an extra half inch to strut their stuff! It also makes the layout appear cleaner and more professional.

I've also adjusted the layout for drawings that look better on a vertical layout (you can see the star in this one. I don't think it takes away from the picture but it leads your eye towards it and the Shh Girl doesn't get lost in the shadows.)





Love still hurts!


Painter Demon (Verdelet) looking lovely and devilish as ever.














This is it, what do you think?

Flatbook

I tested out the new emblem on my flatbook layout and, after much tweeking, decided that this emblem just doesn't suit me. I think I had it right the first time.....

So I've gone back to the original Shh Girl.

This is my final layout. I've enlarged the canvas space for my art work and brought my name down to the bottom of the page where it is noticeable, yet unintrusive.

Here are a few examples of my work.

Love Hurts.

Painter Demon (aka Verdelet) is a concept that I've worked with on several occasions, I've made quite a few 2D and 3D animation skits with her and also written a short story.

Pegasus has never been depicted as female and yet, in the Greek Mythology stories, it's sex is never really conveyed. That's why I decided to she Pegasus here as a sassy female horse!


Would you really want to be in the sights of a cat carrying a fork?

Pegasus' turn around.

This is a humanoid, leopard, butterfly that I cooked up. she's as big as a mountain.

This is Edward Rochester. He is a character for a video game concept inspired by the book Jane Eyre. I tried out several different looks for him before finding this one.

DESPERATE! I think this drawing speaks for itself.

This is the concept work for a story that I created. It was inspired by a dream.

Here is the final height chart of the three friends.

Finalizing The Logo

Someone suggested that my logo idea resembled Betty Boop too closely, So I began playing with some of my other emblem ideas. I went for the little girl idea but I've decided that I don't think this character represents me as an artist. I also think that this character looks too generic. So I went back to my original concept.



I've looked over my emblem and it seemed to me that the similarities lie in the color scheme that I chose. The grayscale look that I originally gave to the Shh Girl may have caused it to look very similar to Betty Boop. Although I did not use Betty as a reference for my concept I decided to go with more of a purple color. But now that she has more color the emblem is far too busy.

I deleted the legs in order to allow the name to stand out more in the emblem



Then I gave the emblem a striped halo to really make the word pop and to bring the word and the Shh Girl together. I think it's finally coming around, however, I would still like to experiment with more ideas.