Vectorise This

 

My idea of fun is sitting around turning loads of drawings into vectors. I was mostly thinking about t-shirt printability when I made these. Some I did just to mess about. But mainly for t-shirts and that sort of thing. Some worked better than others.

1. Worked really well. Thick lines. Detail remains. Possible shirt.

2. Blown up big on a shirt with some type. 

3. Sort of worked... unsure. Blown up with the right typography could work really well.

4. Pretty much exactly as the drawing was only with black lips. Would work.

5. Hasn't really worked too well. Don't think this is strong enough compared to the others.

6. Love it. Might get this printed on a shirt just for myself. Again, blow it up large, full front of shirt, and put some type across the top.

7. Not so much for shirts. Was just playing about with the 'Love Is' set. Stylised them alot.

8. Not as strong as the last one, but that's because the original drawing wasn't as good.

9. Love this. Clean lines. Very, very clean.

10. Just because Sad Bear is awesome.

Work In Slapdash Magazine

 Few bits of my work have been printed in Slapdash Magazine. The layouts not fantastic for the best presentation of work. But it's still printed in a magazine. Better than not being printed right?

More Weaving

More web design today. 

Bio page. Think this has worked really well. I like having an image to one side of the page and then the white space and text on the other side, this fits in really well with the whole feel of my site. I wasn't too sure what to write in my bio so I've left it a little generic and chatty for now. It works. I might change it at a later date if I decide I don't like it but I think it describes me pretty well. I think the text align right works well here as it sits against the imagery and leaves the space on the left

Contact page. I went with the image to the side, content on the other to keep the theme going throughout.  Although I've switched the sides over because I wanted the lion facing inwards like the masked man is on the other page. I think the imagery works well but there's not a lot I could really do with the form as it needs to be pretty standard for people to be able to use it effectively. I might align the text to the left though. It looks a little disjointed in the middle. There were a few other little niggles that needed working out today, finally got my email link at the bottom working. Added the copyright line to the bottom of each page with the © symbol (alt g on a mac, new found hot key). The main problem though was that I discovered that on my gallery pages when you click a thumbnail the image was stretched across the entire main image box regardless of size. This was solved by removing all height/width measurements from the placeholder image as this was effecting all the other images. Then hooked up all my links at the bottom of the page. The only thing left to do now is create my 'design' gallery and then upload and check everything works.

December 29th 2010: The Lion's Share

Sometimes the lion's share ain't fair.

This looked like it wasn't going to work right the way up until I finished it. Luckily it all came together in the end otherwise it would have been a massive waste of two hours. Note to self: add a mid-grey outline to the edge of something, looks like a shadow. Nice.

January 19th 2010: Come to Kenya we've got lion's

Lionboy.

1 minute drawing