Today marks the official start of the website build! While I don't want to show all the ugly mistakes and frustrating broken HTML pages, I can show a few sketches from the early stages of the website:

Early sketch for the index page to test out the color scheme:



Sketch fleshed out. (Later modified because the panels don't serve a function:



Testing out colors for the logo:



New menu for each portfolio section to differentiate this menu from the text-only blog menu:



Goals accomplished with website redesign:
1}Use as many real photographs of work as
2}Incorporate hand-drawn typography
3}Establish a color scheme other than red and black
4}Create and maintain a blog
5}Hand-code CSS/XHTML
6}Include a balance of design and illustration work
7}Be utilitarian, eliminate extras if they serve no purpose

Benchmarks (timeline based on my free time since I have school and work during the day):
Feb 10: Website design begins
Feb 17: Website construction begins
March 16: Work is photographed
Apr 4: Web galleries completed
Apr 13: Entire portfolio section complete
Apr 13: Written content & older blog posts completed
TBA: "Core Competencies" complete, final pieces made
TBA: Official website launch

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