One Down, Two to Go

I finished the first of my end-of-year projects today. I was quite engrossed in it for the last week and a half, spending all my “work” time of last week at it. It’s always satisfying to finish a job and to have finished it well. I’m pleased with the brochure more so than I have been the last couple of years. Last year was a neat experiment in colourful monochrome without any photos and it turned out well — but it was unusual and I imagine somewhat less accessable as others. This year uses colours that I really like personally and has a combination of photo work and “drawing” which I like to do. The cover especially is fun — I think some people will really like it — I do.

Now, I’m onto another project and this one is really different from anything I’ve done before. It’s a very non-standard website and it’s being drawn in a chunky, pseudo-3D, almost 8-bit style. I think the term for it is “isometric pixel art.” This is a little sample of it. I’m drawing a few blocks of downtown city-scape and that’s going to be tied into the navigation. Perhpaps it won’t be as standards compliant as some of my other work, but it’ll be a neat effect for the 99.7% of browsers that will be able to use it.