I’ve done some work on my Cascade index page…
I updated my CSS style sheet to make everything white and black and clean and minimal just how I like it.
I’ve also included a very brief biography AND some links to the other STA pages.
I’ve found that I’m a little unsure of where or how to direct you to my cascade page other than you logging in and looking at it.
I’ll test a URL for it below:
Here is the finished product of my Realistic Watercolor Illustrator Tutorial.
Water is something that has always been a challenge for me to draw on paper, so I thought I would challenge myself with the Illustrator piece to create a water background. I was relieved by my end result; the water has come out surprisingly realistic looking. My initial idea for a background was something more abstract and wasn’t prompting me to push myself, so I am glad I made and pursued the new decision.
EDIT: The image uploader comes up with an error each time I try to upload my image, despite it being the correct file and image size…
For now, I will put up the basecamp URL for the image:
TO DO: The last things that need to be done for the RESET/REBOOT/RECOUP website are to make a few aesthetic changes (make the red banner completely opaque) and to insert the information in place of the placeholder text and to do some last minute end-coding!
A mock-up of a website for the Reset/Reboot/Recoup conference website.
Below is an image of some of the CSS coding that was used to style the index page of Dr. Urlaub’s conference website:
And below this is some of the HTML coding and information that was put into the website:
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Pitch Perfect Pinyin[total: 27.25 hrs]
– Done units: 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10,11, 12
– Done except for: audio missing in various places
New STA Training: Miscellaneous[9.5 hrs]
– Met with Suloni
– Worked on powerpoint
– Made image and portrait place-holders for wiki practice
Twitter/ Libby Page re-design [3.75 hrs]
– Got the OK to fix the twitter page
– Fixed the design settings of the liberalartsUT twitter account
– Waiting on final feedback
COLA Public Affairs Features[6 hrs]
– Met with Andre over process
– Started and finished 2009 and 2010 features
Reset Reboot Recoup site mockup [3 hrs]
– Made two mockups for the RRR conference site
New STA Training: Realistic illustration tutorial [12.5 hrs]
– Started to redo the face
– Made a pixel background woot
– Had tutorial with Megha, Michael, Katie, and Karina Thursday
– Had tutorial with Angie Monday
7/1/11
7/6/11
Helped Maxx with photo shoot for Lecture site [0.5hrs]
———-DONE FOR NOW———-
New STA Training: Paper Cut Art tutorial[3.25 hrs]
– Gave some feedback to Angie / Megha
– Megha’s officially done with hers (7/6/11)
– Next tutorial will be scheduled individually
South Asia Institute videos[13.5 hrs]
– Started coding the HTML/CSS to the video page (option 3)
– Static page (pre-PHP coding)
– Dynamic page (post-PHP coding)
Department of History feature banners [3.75 hrs]
– Starting making some versions of a NSP Class of 2011 banner
– Made a few different designs for Alan Tully feature
(Martha-Gail ended up going with her light gray banner)
Dr. Quinto-Pozos tutorial [2.25 hrs]
– Met on Mon 7/25 at 2pm
– Ran into a few bugs; trying to figure them out
tutorials:
Realistic Illustrator Tutorial (Complete): 
I completed the portrait with a little bit of architecture, because it’s cool.
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HTML/CSS and Cascade Tutorials (In the works):
One thing I’ve definitely learned about HTML and CSS so far is that, while there might not be a right way to do things, there’s certainly a more logical way. After playing with various lines of code, I finally achieved the desired effect, but Ran’s way was definitely more straightforward. ><
I also have some ideas for the site we have to put together using Cascade, but I’ll post more when I actually do something!
projects
What Jane Saw
The basics of the site are reaching a level of completion as far as mock-ups go, so I’ve turned my attention to the part that will make or break the site’s success… the perspectives. I have been playing around with rendering techniques while working with Professor Barchas to constantly update the sketchup model. If only the catalogue for the exhibition came with wall elevations in addition to painting dimensions, this project would be infinitely easier!
As far as rendering techniques go, I’ve tried scanning in a paint stroke and clone stamping that. The effect was somewhat fuzzy (see previous post). My latest rendition is using large photoshop water-color brushes to stamp large sweeping brush strokes across the image and layer it with shadows with lower opacities. But the one thing I’m almost literally dying to try is the new Illustrator CS5 perspective feature.
http://tv.adobe.com/watch/illustrator-cs5-feature-tour/perspective-drawing/
The reason I think this could be such a great tool is that it is more artsy than sketchup and it has a feature that allows you to draw something full-on and then place it on a plane in the perspective. I believe that this tool would be brilliant for doing a lot of the work for the picture frames that I have been struggling with rendering. And because Illustrator works in vectors, it would be easy to resize without distortion or fuzziness. Also, to maintain the hand-rendered watercolor technique I’ve been aiming for in previous rendering attempts, I hope to try and apply some of the techniques I used in the background of my portrait. I’m going to have to download the trial version of AIcs5 and play around with it to see if it can help me out.
After a tutorial with Emma and Ashley, I set to work turning a photo of myself into a watercolor-esque illustration.
July 8-22: Time 12 hrs
Here is the completed portrait (a background is in the works)!
