This section is all about graphic design. I first got interested in computer graphics about five years ago, when I was came across a 3D rendering program called POV Ray (POV Ray website). It was and still is an exceptional piece of software, and whats more it is freeware. I also stumbled upon FractInt (FractInt website), which is used to render various fractal equations. About this time, I also started learning some graphics programming. As time went on, I my interest shifted from technology to design . Sometime last year, I started doing some website design, and it was during this time that I really got interested in graphic design. As far as graphic design is concerned, I have been seriously studying it only for about a month. So, here is some of the stuff that I have been able to come up with since then. As can be expected it is not very professional. Hopefully, with time and practice, things will improve.

This site design cannot be said to be mine. I have tried to implement examples of designs that I have seen elsewhere, sometimes with slight modifications. So in that sense the design is not original at all, with bits and pieces drawn from various sources. The cover page has a photograph of myself taken many years ago. The font for Welcome text is Bellevue. The navigation bar is set with Lemuria, a great font for small sizes. The boxes next to the name are done in Wingdings. The text next to my photo is set in Parisian. I like this font and its useful for doing small bits of information. The typeface for the main body text is Ventura. The text is also spaced out a little bit to allow some white space into the text. I feel that the text on most websites is overly cramped, which is neither pleasing on the eye, nor easy to read. With that in mind, I have also created some whitespace margins on the left and right of the main body text. In my opinion, its a lot easier to read small columns of text than text which occupies the whole screen.

Here I will list various sites which I think have cool design, or cool graphics / artwork or something which makes the site interesting. Remember, I am not talking usability here, but graphics and design.

Attik

Check out the attik site for some great graphics which have been used in various forms of advertisment.

typo5 is a typographic site. Apart from a collection of interesting free and commercial fonts, there is also a great display of grunge artwork.

Solace has an excellent collection of artwork and some great tutorials on anime figure drawing. If you want to learn anime, go here first.

Here is some of my work so far. Some of the images are of the 'untidy' theme that seems to quite popular (especially with typographers). I am quite awful in drawing, having neglected art for many years. Therefore I prefer to use photography to give the visuals in the images. Unfortunately, I dont have too many useful photographs with me, so one of these days I will have to go out and take some. I am not a professional quality photographer either, so I will have to work on that too.

A small warning : Some are quite abstract, and as far as grunge artwork goes, people either love them or hate them, so i wont be surprised if some stuff looks weird or vague.

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Stumbled upon this by accident. Reminds me of Gibbons by Chen Wen Hsi, yet quite different.	My third attempt resulted in this piece. Its supposed to be sky and water.	Autumn breeze is a clean piece of art with no dirt. One of my better ones.
Easily my best so far. I like the way the art supports the theme. I really like this one.	Another grunge one, didn't come out too good.	This is a hypothetical advert for this site. It was quite a problem getting the colours properly.
My first attempt at colouring on the comp, the whole image was done using photoshop. It's an elven warrior from a Warcraft 3 poster.	Cloud Strife from Final Fantasy 7. I always liked the greate anime in FF7, so I decided to do some myself.	Tried out a dark theme. Didn't quite come out like I had expected. My first experiment with grunge dirt
I was just fooling around in photoshop when I accidently ended up with something that looked like water.	Some more experimentation with grunge brought me to this graphic. Though not too grungy, its one of my better designs	I think I'm beginning to get the hang of drawing wrinkled clothing and more realistic lighting. Its also the first one I did without a reference
Finally a grungy design that I think looks proper. IMHO the colour and mood of the graphic depicts the mood well, rather like the confusion design.	Illuminate yourself and discover new energy contained within yourself	Tribute to revolution, an important mechanism for socio-economic progression.
Bruce Wayne (Batman) in one of his more introspective moods.

These are links to some of my favourite websites on design (and typography) or just sites with nice design. Even if you cant check out all the sites, I suggest that you visit at least one site from each category.

Typography

Eyesaw Fonts
Esperfonto
Typofile - Techniques

Design

Winners of an agfa contest
Digital Chicago
Artistica
Web Page Design For Designers

Photoshop

Eyeball Design
Designs by Mark

Sites with nice design

Britanicca.com - Books Of Hope
Jae Studio

Colouring on the PC

3D Palette
Gameart
GFX Artist

Anime

Julie's Art Tips And Tutorials
Polykarbon