“I think life informs art—real inspiration often comes from conversations with friends, travels, or just reading about things that pique my curiosity. I often use my own photography as reference material…I also save a lot of images from various blogs and sources online. It could be anything from a detail like someone’s glasses or hair…
Greetings from Bend, Oregon! I’m by no means settled in yet; Jason and I are still in temporary housing at a hotel while we finalize renting a house (and get all of our stuff like our cars and everything else from the movers). But I’ve got some free time since I don’t start part-time freelancing…
Remember how I said I couldn’t do my one monthly tutorial due to being crazy busy? Well, just kidding! Thanks to Leap Day, I barely made it! Here’s why I thought I wouldn’t be able to: Jason has accepted a job offer in Bend, OR and I’m moving there with him. It’s all very exciting and a little…
February has been a bit of a crazy month. I don’t want to say that I’m already failing one of my new years resolutions, but it does kind of feel that way when it’s the 26th of February, you haven’t done your one design tutorial for the month, and one of your resolutions is “Do…
Identify the content critical to the smaller screen. Once you’ve done that, consider that content to be the information accessible to all your readers, regardless of how wide (or small) their screen happens to be. If there’s additional information you’d like to include on wider viewports, consider it an enhancement. Adopting this “mobile first” mindset…
On the first of this month, I announced as part of my new years resolutions that I would try to do at the very least one design/illustration/web tutorial per month and post it here. Here’s the first installment of that series “Design Down Time.”
Hope you have a wonderful and peaceful Christmas with your friends and family! And if you don’t celebrate Christmas, I hope you have a fantastic holiday season in whatever way you choose to celebrate!
