I’ve spent a good bit of the day butchering a wordpress template and have come up with a ‘new look’. I’m sorry if you were partial to the old one, it was getting a bit crowded and it is a new year and time for a change. I’m quite happy with the outcome! I think I’ll still be playing with the sidebar and potentially offloading links to pages but that will come. Suggestions are welcome and if you find any bugs/issues please let me know.
What do you think?
I’m thinking that this might my first port of call into the illustration world. Digital Painting. I can do crappy little sketches and if I can turn them into something better then I might just be on to something.
We had one class on it first semester (under Digital Design) and it was fascinating. There just wasn’t the scope to explore it properly.
If you know of any decent digital painting tutorials/techniques, can you please post the link, that’d be great.
…another thing to get around to eventually.
My clever little sister made an advent calendar out of an old shadow box this year. She has inspired me to do the same – so I was rapt when I found one at a carboot sale for $3. It has a few too many boxes, yet can be redeemed by some well placed double doors as so to reduce the spaces down to 24 or 25. She used heavy weight cardboard for the doors and an assortment of pictures/papers, filling each box with something unique (Made as a present for Dan, so things like little helicopters and what not). I haven’t started mine yet and don’t intend to use it until next year and my boxes aren’t quite so deep as hers are but I love the idea – it’s so much nicer than paper ones from the supermarket.
There have been some other fun/cute advent ideas over on ‘Oh Happy Day’.
In other countdown news… it is 32 days until Geoff and I get married!
It’s too early to list off new years resolutions, but I’m determined in some way next year to teach myself some illustration. I really think it would be a useful skill. Here’s the thing, I’m never very inspired to draw. I used to draw and draw quite reasonably back when I was 13, but it was always from photos (I was animal obsessed). I’m not necessarily after realism, but how do you develop your own style? And where do you think is a good place to start? I’m keen to pursue ink drawing and things that I can get on to the computer to manipulate further.
Should I go buy a book? Do a course in my non-existent free time? Start drawing (and where do I get ideas!)? Keep an art journal?
I think that mostly I’m stuck for ideas and I don’t want to totally rip off other people’s ideas.