Website Update and the Aftermath of Summer Classes

 I'm still chugging away on "Mark II."  I've had a lot of real (IE: Paid) work this week, so I haven't been able to put as much time in as I'd like in nailing out the last bits of the layout.  On top of that it's been trying time for me when it comes to relationships.  All in all, I haven't been much in the head-space for web design this last week.  What I have done is get a simple portfolio layout set up and decide that I need to rework my entire navigation system... so yeah.  Fun stuff.  I hope I finish it soon. Like tomorrow.

We all have our hopes and dreams.

Additionally, I offered to help a friend of mine come up with a design for his website, so I'm planning on throwing some of my time at that too.  How come I always get crazy busy when I offer to do something like this?  Ah well.  It should look good in my portfolio.

Since my website is coming so slowly, and I don't have any pretty pictures to show for it, I figured that I'd post some of the drawings that I did for my summer classe.

The self portrait I did as a final project.  Done with black and white prismacolor pencils against grey paper.

My second to last project.  Done with charcoal in about 8 hours.

One of my earlier drawings.  We were practicing contour drawing.  This was done over two or three class periods.

My Resume is Hot Off the Press!

I can hardly believe how long it took me to put together such a simple document.

Blasted distractions...

Anyway, I finally have it ready to go.

Dark Marble 2.0 Layout

So, for the last week or so I've been spending a lot of time setting up the foundations of my new Dark Marble website. Now that I have a good base to build off of in Flash, I've decided to finalize the actual layout/design of the website. It has been a bit of a hassle (because I couldn't decide what resolution at which I wanted to build it and kept changing my mind) but I'm pretty pleased with the results so far.

Obviously, there will be more to it than these sample pages, but this should give a pretty good idea of what the final product will look like.

The layout design for the home page:

The layout design for the portfolio page:

The layout design for the origin page:

The layout design for the downloads page:

The layout design for the resume page:

The layout design for the contact page:

As happy as I am with how DM2 is turning out, I still have oodles of work to do. I need to get together all the items for my portfolio, put together a resume, put together a demo reel, organize my downloadable assets and put together a tutorial. (No, I haven't actually done one yet, but I know what I'm going to do for it and I'd like to do more in the future.)

That's all for now! Hopefully I'll have another update soon.