Website showcase

I made several pages of what my website would look like. There's alot of competition in my field of freelance character designing/illustrator so I've put the aesthetics of the site into consideration. I want it to be colourful, bold and simple to navigate.

My business card

This is the final layout of my card. I decided not to make the edges curved because I have borders therefore it might slant went it gets cut in production.

My final look of the card. I had a better border and a slightly lighter green colour.

Designing business cards

To have a business card is crucial because you have to look professional and its convenient if wanting to quickly set a good impression to your potential clients.

1. I want my card to be simple and just have all the basic information to contact me quickly.

2. My main theme is clovers so I used greens mainly. The second idea is too dark for my liking and the information on the card is light to be seen clearly.

3. Out of these designs I like this green colour the most since it feels most relaxing and fresh to the eye.
4. The layout of the image and information is best on the card but the green colour is still too dark.

Promotion strategy with a website porfolio.

To promote myself, Im going to make a website with a porfolio of work. This way people can quickly access my work and get an understanding of what my illustrations and designs look like.

Fred Gallagher-FREDART

Fred Gallagher is an American illustrator and web comic artist. By looking at his style, I noticed he is strongly influenced by japanese manga and games. In my opnion I prefer his pencil sketches more than his coloured illustrations. Its good that he uploads a comic strip weekly to keep his website active and it maintains his amount of fans.

http://www.fredart.com/

http://www.megatokyo.com

Macy Wong

Just by chance, I spotted this website with a very different style of illustrations. I quite like the layout and the pastel colour coded tabs for each page of the site. This is an example of what Im trying to aim as. I would love to present my works and illustrations on my self created website.



Macy Wong's art is more suitable for a younger audience such as children and it has that nursery education feel to it? The illustrations are mainly created by colours and drawn with light and darker tones. Because of this, her style of using outlines are faint and harsh bold lines are hardly used.

The Pern

Woooo~ my cousin is going to start up a website soon, featuring her illustrations and concepts. If she updates anything, I'll be blogging more about her art and the methods of presenting the new website.

www.thepern.co.uk