Well my site revamp is about three quarters of the way done. All that’s left is to draw something for the about/profile page and of course to upload everything. Still very much in love with the whole damask pattern for layouts. And some how it gives the whole website a sort of “classier” look to things. Not that I haven’t seen classy looking artsites that use solid or vibrant colours.

Came across this entry on deviantArt challenging people to redraw whatever they used to draw when they first started out in art. For me, it was trees in the sun/ So of course this calls for….VECTOR TRESS AND SUNS WHOOOO! Now just to find a way to not make it look like every other abstract nature scene out there.

So my computer has decided to really act up when it comes to turning on and off. As written on my tumblr, I’ve had an electrician look at the outlet my pc and other things have been plugged into and even went so far as to have the outlet fixed. That lasted about a day and then it just wouldn’t turn on at all. Opting to borrow a laptop, that had its own annoying results…Technology why must you fail me at the most in opportune of times? Surprisingly, since writing the draft up for this entry on the 15th, my pc has been behaving itself a little more and being more stable when it comes to turning on and off. Though I still want to replace the power source. At least it’s co-operating enough that I can ink a little bit. Now keep co-operating.

I swear I saw the viking guy at AN this year!

Now this is something anyone who draws(even if only occasionally) should watch. They mentioned things I know I’m guilty of and a few I just noticed. All I can do is put in the effort to improve on those weak points and keep going. You do not gain anything from throwing your hands up or having a hissy fit without even trying. Better get back to that drawing and improving bit!

Happy to see the facebook getting more likes, been trying to change the url of the page to something easier, apprently it needs at least 25 fans in order to change things. So here’s the plan, as soon as 25 or more people like the page, however that happens, I’ll have a little draw for a free wallpaper or some kind of gift art. People like free stuff and I like making stuff for people, works out nicely. So tell your friends to like THIS page and free stuff will be drawn!

So as part of the project I need a box to hold money in. This one seemed like a good idea but then I realized that I need a box that I can lock. So I’ll have to find another one and come up with another use for this box. And here I thought I’d have a pretty, girly money box!

Lots of room to put money and…stuff!

Note to self: Pull feet in when taking photos lol…They really do sell pretty stuff at dollar stores. Now this box is for holding little decorations and decals that I had picked up.

My decals! No wonder scrapbooking is so popular, all the little embellishments for it are so dang cheap!

So I took another crack at making business cards and following Finni’s advice, added some artwork to the card design.

Can’t get more personal than drawing chibi caricatures of oneself! Especially slightly pissed ones! Thinking I might change the black and white background on the backside of the card and use the gray-black patterned background that’s on the front instead.

I really like this second design! I hope it isn’t extra expensive to custom cut rounded cards, haven’t seen many people with cards like this. Better get these printed and see how they come out.

Last but not least, I’ve started working on a new website layout. Inspired by a blog post by the artist Shilin I’m going to put up a little test page at http://tranquil-solace.com/ts3 , I think I may actually go and tweak the layout in photoshop for a little bit.

o1. Revamp the layout of the site. Had a couple ideas in mind

o2. Finish the 10 images of my very vague art project. I have 2 of the planned images completed, along with a banner image. Go me!
o3. Complete my business card design. Thanks for the tip Finni!
o4. Just draw MOAR!

So with that list in mind, I’m going to do a little work this afternoon! Starting with this…

There’s just something so fun about drawing caricatures of oneself. That’s all for now!

My favourite digital anime artist revamped her website a little under 24 hours ago! The simple layout and colour scheme has me inspired to get cracking on designing a new layout for this site. First I started playing around with patterns in photoshop and I have a think for pinstripes/scanlines…but then that’s been done to death. Going with the damask pattern I’ve been using for other layouts and armed with custom brushes and fonts, I went to town! Last time I designed I layout I used grays/green/orange and blue(so many colours, so little time), this time I think gray/pink and white is enough…keep it as simple as possible! Here’s a larger screenshot for your viewing pleasure.

Also…having 50 billion scroll bars sucks…just sayin’!

Colouring old wip’s sure helps. Can you tell how much I like colouring a character’s eyes…I sure do. Not sure if I’ll put this in the junk section or not, it is sort of old…and the anatomy is atrocious…but I do need more original art. Could always mention that it’s old…hmmm.

Also as a result of new inspiration, I have a new idea for a website layout, so I better get sketching. And one last thing, if you noticed that this blog’s guestbook was broken for a little while, it’s finally fixed and working again, so if you want to leave a little message YOU CAN NOW!

That is all!

I really wanted to have a separate section for my latest gallery additions and works in progress(wip’s).

And this wide layout would be used for all the other pages, excluding the main page.

I’ve even went so far as to doodle out my layout ideas. Hopefully I’ll have this finished, sliced and ready for dreamweaver soon.