Changes on the Website

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Previously my homepage looked like this, with my sketchbook open and my art equipment next to it photographed in the studio. I like this picture because the open sketchbook with a white pages invites and inspires to new the project, however this term I decided make some changes on my website. Unfortunately during the process I was so focused that I forgot to take a screenshots.   

The homepage on my Website looks like this now. Is definitely more graphic and clean. I changed background for clear white and I used  my own drawings to it. I purposely zoomed in the girl's face to show  her attitude and also because I really like this picture. Moreover I changed the top bar colour for the wine red, which unfortunately looks much lighter or darker depends from the screen. I like this look much better as is bold and clean, also links to my last project were I mostly used only those three colours.
 

I also made changes in the Portfolio page. Previously was the same open sketchbook on the background and on each page was one of my Art Portfolio project. This time I have three main projects and I wanted to continue the graphic look from home page. The background is white and the cover photos for the main project are in the black frame. Underneath each of the picture is the "see work" button which is linked with galleries.  I think I need to put them in chronological order, which would also gave a possibility to se my progress and range of ideas trough all year.

The most difficult was to find out where I could customize the picture description, change the font colour and size. When I finally did it, I also learned how to customize the small details like buttons and arrows.

I changed the small "full screen" arrows to red to link it with the main colour theme on the website

Comments

  1. Sam Dargan5 June 2022 at 13:01

    Your website shows off the progression you have made over the year. Don't forget to follow up on the posts I have suggested, add your reflection post and submit your form before 9am on 7th June.

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