My Very First HTML Experience

So... many people ask me where I first learned graphic design or how to make websites, etc.. I tell them that I learned straight HTML before anything else and to this day I think it gave me a foundation for web that is impossible without studying code. 

 I always distinctly remember the feeling I had the first time I wrote out HTML code, opened the page and found a whole website had been created with only a few tags. I am always looking for a good website tutorial, but it seems everyone immediately thinks of Dreamweaver (or FrontPage, etc...) and once you get into software there are so many techniques and different "rules." With HTML, everyone uses the same language, it progresses and changes at times, but it's pretty much universal.

Today I stumbled across the same tutorial I used 6 years ago to make my first web page from straight HTML only. I loved it. I look at javascript and other codes and want to bang a hammer to my head there is just so much to force into my brain, but I love it. I love learning and HTML was one of my favorite challenges that first year of Graphic Design class.  So I'm sharing it with my readers :) 

Here is a link (You can also click the title of this blog)

http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/tut/index.html

New inspirations...

Ok. So I've been going CRAZY over this style of digital art that I really want to master. Here is a link to the artist that like the most using this style so far: Pete Harrison
There are other styles similar that inspire me, so here is one in particular: JaxeNL

So I decided this will take a lot of work to perfect my style of these types of style, but here is my first work. Often I don't like to show my first work, b/c I know I'll get better. So this is by far NOT my best work, but I'm sharing it b/c I'm so excited to finally have made it (sort of) work after hours of tutorial perusing. I know the hair could use with some blending and be cut out better, but I wasn't as concerned with that as the technique. So here is a before and after shot of the effect. Made for a senior session at Captured Images, Inc.

Recent Illustrative Work

Here is some stuff I've been doing at work.

Some urban illustrative stuff:

Jacob Urban by ~silverdoves on deviantART

Some Pinup Stuff:

Website Tutorial

I have created a tutorial for creating a website using Photoshop for graphics, and Dreamweaver for HTML and simple CSS. Feel free to learn and enjoy! Use the link above (the title of this post) or this button .

Brittany

Presenting: Contact Lenses

Okay. I know I don't update this as much as some might like (I am one of the some) but I have a post today! Yay!

I made a breakthrough. A little background from a blabberer (me):
I have come up with some methods throughout the last few years for enhances eyes on portraits. My favorites still live on today, some have developed. I was looking at a brochure for colored contacts the other day. They also sell contacts that "enhance your natural eye color." This got me to thinking. Instead of repeating my process on portrait eyes all the time, why not create "contacts" that I could drop on and be done? While the creative juices were flowing they began to flow pretty flooding-ly. I decided that I could use designs to drop some cool textures on eyes. I knew I needed them to be to circular and symmetrical. So I found fractals. I won't keep going on and on, but basically I'm so excited about this new idea. Here is a photo I did the super retouching to, added the new eye effect and such and am now sharing here. Gary Palmer took the photo, © goes to him, k? And yeah, she's pretty much goreous to begin with...