Proposal
For my personal project I am going to create a website for all of my art/drawings. I will either need to use Weebly or Wordpress to get this done. Also I was thinking about converting some of my old drawing to being digitized. I would be doing at least 2 of them. I would do this in Illustrator. Maybe I'll even add a video of me drawing, like a time lapse.
The only thing I think I might have trouble with is finding time to do all this. Some of it will be easy to do but It will still take some time.
The only thing I think I might have trouble with is finding time to do all this. Some of it will be easy to do but It will still take some time.
Website
Reflection Paper
I enjoyed the personal project a lot more than I did the client one. That should be a pretty obvious statement but I didn't expect to enjoy it as much as I did. I loved redrawing all my drawings, actually it made me even prouder of my work because I realized how many small details I put in. That also annoyed me a bit.
One of the big problems I had was on my Harley Quinn drawing. I had so much detail in her tattoos. I eventually figured out that using a .05 brush size with the brush tool could create the curves I needed. Also the organization system that I used first didn't look every clean cut the first time on the website so I had to last minute change everything but I think it looks nice now.
I had just started using Illustrator this year so this was a little bit of a learning experience. I also used Photoshop for most of the coloring in for the digital drawings.
I don't think there's much that I would do differently. I would have used more of the free time that I had to work on redrawing my doodles. Then maybe they would look better but overall I think I did a good job on everything. I might change around the way that the tabs are laid out. I messed with them so many times and I've changed it at least 10 times. Each time I thought it looked okay but then something about it would throw me off and I would be back at the drawing board. This time I think it looks nicer and cleaner so I can live with it but later on I will end up changing something.
This project taught me that time management is key. I had started this project sooner than I did on the client one but I still had a lot that I wanted to do. I got the main things done and everything that I wanted to do in the proposal, but I wanted to add extra things that I would have had time for if I had used my time more wisely. Also I learned that sometimes I need to scale down my ideas so that I don't get too off track. That was a major problem for me. I wanted to do everything and so much more than I finished with.
One of the big problems I had was on my Harley Quinn drawing. I had so much detail in her tattoos. I eventually figured out that using a .05 brush size with the brush tool could create the curves I needed. Also the organization system that I used first didn't look every clean cut the first time on the website so I had to last minute change everything but I think it looks nice now.
I had just started using Illustrator this year so this was a little bit of a learning experience. I also used Photoshop for most of the coloring in for the digital drawings.
I don't think there's much that I would do differently. I would have used more of the free time that I had to work on redrawing my doodles. Then maybe they would look better but overall I think I did a good job on everything. I might change around the way that the tabs are laid out. I messed with them so many times and I've changed it at least 10 times. Each time I thought it looked okay but then something about it would throw me off and I would be back at the drawing board. This time I think it looks nicer and cleaner so I can live with it but later on I will end up changing something.
This project taught me that time management is key. I had started this project sooner than I did on the client one but I still had a lot that I wanted to do. I got the main things done and everything that I wanted to do in the proposal, but I wanted to add extra things that I would have had time for if I had used my time more wisely. Also I learned that sometimes I need to scale down my ideas so that I don't get too off track. That was a major problem for me. I wanted to do everything and so much more than I finished with.