When I first sat down to redesign the site, I was having trouble trying to figure out what image I wanted to use for homepage. I wanted it to really reflect me and the kind of illustrations I want to be doing. Luckily, I remembered an old piece of advice that Aaron always used to tell the CCS summer workshop students: "you have to draw what you LOVE!" And well, I love drawing wizards and dragons and tree forts. So I cast myself as the wizard and then tried to fill my imaginary tree fort with as many personally meaningful objects as I could, so the space would reflect me. I really like how the image came out, and I don't think there is anyone else on earth (besides me) who could fully understand what every object in the drawing means to me.
Anyway, if you have a minute, take a lap around the new site and please let me know if you find any bugs! ALSO: a huge thanks (as usual) to Nate Beaty for some last minute help tightening up my coding!
3 comments:
great new site alec! I like how the blog is integrated with everything. how come you got rid of the comic section?
Thanks Sam! Watch those URLs... I have TWO sites. The illustration site has NO hyphen: aleclongstreth.com and my other site (WITH a hyphen between my first and last name) has all of my comics and my personal blog: alec-longstreth.com Sorry it's kind of confusing... I just wanted to have a clean portfolio site where I could send illustration clients, hence the simple illustration site.
Hey Alec, Great new design! Very clean and efficient. Your new backgrounds are awesome.
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