Web Home Page

This is my design for my Illustration homepage. I've used dark colours and tried to give it a metallic/industrial theme.  I've added in one of my own recent illustrations into the home page.

It has a simple menu layout across the top, and the menus on the right side will be a flash based menu. New and updates will be displayed on the bottom of the page.

Photoshop signatures

These are some amatuer photoshop signatures I made for forum use by myself and others:

Illustration Courses

I have been looking at some courses lately and ones which have caught my eye, and offer illustration courses are:


• University of Hertfordshire.
http://www.herts.ac.uk/home-page.cfm

• Illustration BA (Hons)
University For The Creative Arts

Department of Maidstone

http://www.hotcourses.com/uk-courses/Illustration-BA-Hons-courses/page_pls_user_course_details/16180339/220704/w/52404980/page.htm

• HND Graphic Design (Part of University of Greenwich) at Canterbury College.

Photography

Here are many examples I gathered which use different effects and settings to create top quality and some abstract images.

A sunset, where the photographer has captured the rays effectively. Most of the focus is on the right side of the image .

The lighting in the background creates the shadows in the foreground as it is only a single light source which makes the camera view it as a dark contrast .

 The lights are blurred out, possibly by the fog in the background or the camera is focused more towards the right of the image.

The photographer has managed to use the camera in order to create the smudged line effects from the head and tail lights of passing vehicles. Standing on a bridge, overlooking both roads. Though the lights in the background do not seem to be effected.

The street lights give an impact to all the objects below them, creating a contrast between the ground and the sky.

 

This photographer has managed to capture the majority of LA during sunset. The colour of  the lights matches well with the sky. If this was taken during night it wouldn't have such a great effect and ruin the whole contrast. It reminds me of quite a hellish scene at first glance.

The light source coming in from above creates an orange dusky effect within the caverns, and brings out the detail within the rock walls.

The photographer has managed to focus into a single building blurring out the background. It makes you feel as if you have been launched into the image.

A Subaru Impreza in the WRC. A sideshot of the car speeding round the corner. Most shots are taken from the side view as it gives more of an impact to the image. The motion blur effect creates the most impact as it brings out the rally car.

Websites based on Illustration

http://www.illustrationweb.com/illustrators/all.asp

http://www.centralillustration.com/

http://www.arenaworks.com/index.php#

http://www.enroc.com/

http://www.deviantart.com/

An amazing self taught pencil artist, creating photo realistic images: http://lion83.deviantart.com/

Starting out blog

Hi all, this is my new blog. I'm just starting out and will be updating this regularly over the course of the year with any artwork, photography, web design. Links to websites, artists, profiles, and anything related to design and the progression of my course will be posted in this blog.

I have begun to write my UCAS statement to upload to the main site as part of my progression onto higher education. The image above is a link to the main site. UCAS is the main site where students wanting to go onto H.E courses can find the universities or colleges they wish to apply for and find out more info about them.