Hi Alfie welcome to the CAA family. A few pointers to help you out:
I think the theme and design of your blog could be improved, as I look at this post it has a large dark purple margin with the picture on the left, it just doesn't look visually pleasing. I know the blog settings for the themes and design are tricky at first but have a play around with them and if you would like to provide me with your email address I could send a document created by the digital painting lecturer Jordan which gives some very useful tips on how to brand yourself.
I think instead of creating a new post for each picture I would have added all the pictures in one post, Its nice to see all the designs together in one post instead of having to revert back to your blog to see the next one or having to open them all in separate tabs also people who follow your blog might find the posts for each picture unnecessarily clogging up their feed. Its good that you have your designs numbered ALWAYS number your designs so people can say specifically which ones they like, which could be worked on more and so on.
The pictures themselves would look better if the background was cropped out - bring them into photoshop and use the crop tool to make the emphasis on your designs only. You have some nice designs here.. its tough to see them though, I would use a darker pencil such as a 6B or a pen to make them pop out, another handy tip is to bring the designs into photoshop go to - image - adjustments - levels and dial the levels up to make the blacks of the lines pop, it really makes a subtle but impressive difference. Combine this with scanning your designs on the scanners that are scattered around UCA to a usb and your designs will look polished and professional, you'll be flying it! :)
After some talks, I was advised to step away from my sketch book and try using a different medium on a bigger scale. I then got...
Hi Alfie welcome to the CAA family. A few pointers to help you out:
ReplyDeleteI think the theme and design of your blog could be improved, as I look at this post it has a
large dark purple margin with the picture on the left, it just doesn't look visually pleasing. I know the blog settings for the themes and design are tricky at first but have a play around with them and if you would like to provide me with your email address I could send a document created by the digital painting lecturer Jordan which gives some very useful tips on how to brand yourself.
I think instead of creating a new post for each picture I would have added all the pictures in one post, Its nice to see all the designs together in one post instead of having to revert back to your blog to see the next one or having to open them all in separate tabs also people who follow your blog might find the posts for each picture unnecessarily clogging up their feed. Its good that you have your designs numbered ALWAYS number your designs so people can say specifically which ones they like, which could be worked on more and so on.
The pictures themselves would look better if the background was cropped out - bring them into photoshop and use the crop tool to make the emphasis on your designs only.
You have some nice designs here.. its tough to see them though, I would use a darker pencil such as a 6B or a pen to make them pop out, another handy tip is to bring the designs into photoshop go to - image - adjustments - levels and dial the levels up to make the blacks of the lines pop, it really makes a subtle but impressive difference.
Combine this with scanning your designs on the scanners that are scattered around UCA to a usb and your designs will look polished and professional, you'll be flying it! :)