Final Artist Post

Above are images that were digital drawn using Adobe Photoshop. The artist responsible for these drawings is named Andree Wallin. Andree Wallin is one of the artists that I have become to enjoy viewing. I have found out that digital artists do what is called speed drawing, which is where over a period of about four hours they try as hard as they can to turn out a polished piece of work. Andree Wallin has done many of these. He has an extensive portfolio and background working with some premier companies on some big projects.

He has worked with Universal pictures on a project called Oblivion that they are making into a fully featured film. He has worked with a company called Digital Domain to help create the concept art for the cinematic trailer for Halo 4. He has an extensive background working on projects like these and is a very creative individual with a ton of talent. He started doing commissioned digital artwork in 2006 and was able to turn it into a professional career in 2008. Andree Wallin is 28 years old and lives in Sweden.

Carin Reich

Above is a website called The Kitchen. This website was made by a web designed named Carin Reich. It was honestly hard for me to pick one web designer as my favorite because there are so many different unique takes to making a website that I have found. So many designs I have discovered are great but yes there are also a good amount that are pretty awful.

The key to developing and designing a good website is sticking to the principle of keeping it simple. I think less is often more when it comes to websites. Above is a website about a kitchen community being united by a bistro that provides a melting pot of foods between the communities different tastes. One thing that I have noticed about my behavior when I look at a website for the first time is the pictures and I realize that websites like the one above does a great job of drawing you in because of the kind of atmosphere the pictures suggest. To look more specifically at the design you can see that there are not a lot of links everywhere. Its very simple and out of the way so the user can engage in that kind of atmosphere that the picture gives the user. When people go to websites they want to get the feeling that they are already there. They want that feeling and they don't want to be confused with clutter. Being straight forward in the website business is a good strategy to have.

All in all there are many different ways to approach designing a website. Often times designing a website relies heavily on what the customer wants, and what kind of profession the customer has. If the customer wants to launch a website that lists  products for people to buy then something like that can really kind of limit your creativity as a creator. It's important to note that outside forces can dictate what you are able to do as a designer.