Some recent work

It seems July has quietly slipped by. Maybe quietly is the wrong word... I've sure been swamped. Still, I can't believe it's August already! I guess moving to a new place will do that to you. Unfortunately, I really have been too swamped for sketching and personal work, but on the bright side I can share a bit of what I've been working on.

Firstly, over the past month most of my time not spent on my primary job has been put to use totally revamping this hair salon website that I made back in 2008. Visually it's largely the same, although I did improve the design in some areas, and I VASTLY improved the framework. When I made it originally I had a very minimal knowledge of html and css, and to work around that I used a program that rendered it a hot mess. This is the most complicated thing I've done since teaching myself Dreamweaver.

Additionally, over the past few months I've been able to do some fun work for my main employer, unvelope.com. Some of the things I've been exploring in my reference-less warmup sketches (when I get to do them) have made their way into select pieces, and it's been an enjoyable challenge to try to bring that freedom and spontaneity to a more polished finished state. Here are a few:

And below is probably my favorite of my unvelope pieces so far. I've gotten pretty well used to Flash over the last two and a half years, but character animation is still a big challenge for me because I never learned it. So, just the fact that the two of them are walking is pretty amazing to me... plus I had a great time working on the imagery.



This is really directly related to one of my earlier sketches:

Just as a reminder, I can't post all of the work I do for unvelope here... but if you want to see more, you're welcome to browse the site! Not all of the cards are illustrated, but I did the layouts and animations for the ones that aren't also.

Here's to a (hopefully) more blog-heavy August!