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The first one was a lot of fun, so I thought I’d make another. Same size as the first one, also just plain ol’ graphite on paper.
Hmm… looking at this website, so far there’s a lot of black and white going on. Going to have to try adding some colour one of these days…
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A fun image I drew up as a birthday present for the baby boy of a friend of mine. It’s pencil on paper, about 20 inches by 9 1/2 inches. I would like to do more of these!
Hey! A detail view!
Welcome to the brand-new TonyCliff.com! The major difference between this version and the last is the new blog-type style. I’ve adopted this format for two reasons: recognizability and ease of use.
More and more artists are posting their work on the inter-net, and many of them are using Blogger or services like it. Loads of artists are representing themselves with long, vertical sheets of their work and postings. And then the links and “about” sections are off to the left or right. So if you browse a lot of these pages, you get used to interpreting the way the information is presented, and that’s why I thought I might conform my own website to this format. My website design skills are nothing special, so I don’t need to try to astound a visitor with a new and groundbreaking interface. I might as well make the content as easy as possible to approach without throwing up any interface barriers in the way. So with the blog format, the arrangement of the information should be familiar and easy to digest.
Theoretically, if I use the Categories and Tags properly, that should also make it easy for dudes to get at theoretical posts that theoretically would contain the theoretical content they’re looking for.
But ALSO it will make it so much easier for me to update my website. With the last site, it was so cripplingly imposing to edit anything that I never actually did. It involved firing up Dreamweaver, cutting up pictures in Photoshop, and then wrangling links to make sure nothing was broken. It was a huge pain in the ass.
This new site uses Wordpress to power all this bloggy-ness, and hopefully that will enable me to post in a more timely fashion. Fortunately, it also allows complete customization, so I’ve been able to modify the look so that it’s not so generic as, say, Blogger pages are.
The downside to that is that it involved learning CSS and enough PHP to assemble Wordpress’ features. Fortunately, they have books on this sort of thing, so that helped. Also extremely helpful, though, were Luc Latulippe and John Martz, both of whom are awesome people (you may recognize some design features from their websites). Additionally, I added Cabel’s “FancyZoom” feature, and so thanks are due to him, too. I also referenced some other Wordpress themes - see the “About” page for more information.
