Spiral Knotwork Part 3
Now the underlying framework is done. The lines that are currently black act as “complications” in the knot, keeping it from just being a basic boring latticework. The blue lines are edges of the spiral, except inside the innermost blue line, where the green edges are also the edge of the spiral (it’s so small I didn’t want to add additional large blue lines in there and obscure the drawing area.
Note, these screenshots are at half-size. The original is 1200px by 900 px.
Spiral Knotwork Part 2
Spiral’s base framework, all gridded and dotted up.
Work in Progress - Spiral 1
Starting a new full-page knotwork. Digital. No, I haven’t finished the last one yet. They tend to overlap like that. This is my base framework. Normally I work with right angled squares and rectangles but after that short, quick round thread I drew last night for my website, I’m itching to do something a little more curvy.
Site Redesign Part 3
I was really happy with the watercolor and the basic idea of the design I was working on but it really didn’t feel like _me_. So out comes the Wacom. I think I like this direction better. The watercolor with paper is the base, with some knotwork and hand-drawn accents to really make it MY site instead of “generic artist-style site number 392”. Now the trick will be adding enough drawing to be balanced and personalized without adding so much (or making it so heavy) that that it detracts from the content.
Here I am again, stuck in IE7 hell. It struck me today, while I’m sitting here hacking up my layout’s css to accommodate the vagaries of IE7, that working on a layout is a lot like driving a car. There’s a lot of things you have to learn first to keep yourself from being a hazard to other drivers, but once you get the hang of it, those things all become second nature.
Designing for the better browsers, Firefox, Safari, etc., is like driving down a mostly deserted highway in Wyoming. Fast, smooth, straight-forward, easy to find yourself doing 100mph with the radio blasting while the scenery around you flies by (not that I’d know anything about doing that *shifty look*).
Most of the time, IE8 is the same. You may occasionally have to change lanes or slow down a little, but it’s easy to see those problems coming and just build in solutions from the start.
Now imagine you are asked to plot a route across the country that involves no highways, no stop lights and no stop signs. You have one hour to plot this route. Then you must drive it. From memory.
That’s what working with Internet Explorer 7 is like.