Personal Site ACTIVATE!!!

So the time has come for my site to become live online...

so now the wait is over...

Debit cards and Domain Names

Just added the final finishing touches to my official website woohoo!

now for the more technical side of things.

I've now tried to pay for my domain and hosting but alas it still eludes me, I think it's because my debit card is like $7 short until tomorrow morning but i'm not fully certain on that front, we shall see tomorrow.


as for a sneak peak of my site

Building a anime brick building

Here is the process to creating the building for my personal website.

This is the base idea that my site was based on overall.

Evolution of a moon lit sky

 Here is the development process used to get the background image of the sky for my website to the  level of detail that is in my final design.

 At this point the background was just a clear night sky with

Developing a site Ninja

Here is the design process of the ninja character for my site from start to finished product 

This is the base image designed in Illustrator

Testing a site Prototype

Prototype testing comments:

tester 01: - Monique Downes
Felt that the design was well done and creative.
Liked how the lights in different rooms are on depending on the particular page you are viewing.

Personal Website overall look

Although in this image the heading of my name is in the wrong font and the textures on the building are just straight colours at the moment it is overall the design that I'm looking for with my site.

The top four windows will have links to blown up versions of artworks and will light up showing small versions of the images when you roll over them the large green/grey box will be a bill board where the large versions of the images will appear upon clicking.

Web Media - Project 2 Begins - Goal Setting

So after a 2 week Hiatus due to Marking for my Project 1 Blog i'm back and set to continue my weekly posts.

Now down to business the goals I have set for myself to work on throughout my next project 2 of which have to be technical based, 2 design based and then the last 2 can be anything of my own choice.

time for 2 weeks of unethical Practice

As of 1pm today... I am going to be unable to post anything for 2 weeks due to marking purposes

normally I wound't mention anything but as I have posted about my ethics for this blog saying that i'll be posting at least once a week i thought it would be good to forewarn my viewers.

Now welcoming you to the NEW and IMPROVED GRAPHIX STIGMA DESIGN Blog

So after a bit of decision making and an equally large amount of graphical interface re-adjustment...

I present to you the New and Improved...

Typo 1 Assignment 1A - The Careers Expo Poster status... Complete

The day has been and gone now and even with a cold fogging up my mental capabilities I still managed to finish and hand in what I class as an amazing piece of work for my course this Thursday just been...

Graphix Stigma's Code of Ethics

So here today we have the rules of Graphix Stigma:

1. I aim to post something on at least a weekly basis.
2. Anyone can comment on any of my posts at any time and will be approved by myself.
3. Comments with any derogatory terms or disrespectful things said about anything on the Blog will not be accepted for posting.
4. At a later date I may upgrade to all posts automatically accept if accepting posts becomes too time consuming.

These are the terms and conditions of my blog at this point watch for any changes at a later date.

The inspiration that started my Ascent to Graphic Design

So to take my art life back to it's roots, I have to go back to when I was 14 years old and skipping Physical Education in the Library drawing instead of getting attacked by over sized Balls....

It turns out I wasn't so good with fast moving objects and later I would find that was possibly to do with my lack of a decent distant visual ability...

So I would sit in the Library with a pile of around 200 images of Dragon Ball characters and just spent my hours in there sketching and duplicating the images on my own paper.

images like this (found at http://media.giantbomb.com/uploads/1/19552/776320-gohan05.gif)

Was one of the first images i completed to my satisfaction although this is not my drawing as I probably wouldn't be able to find it nowadays.

Or this (found at http://wallpapers99.com/images/wallpaper/1024x768/Dragon%20Ball%20Z_10454.jpg)

This was where I started but I have since progressed and personalized my style even if it still stays reasonably the same for the base of the style.

SEO - Search Engine Optimization...

Todays class we have progressed onto the subject material of S.E.O (search Engine Optimization).

For this section we were asked to search and locate one of the many ways to work with search engines.

for my SEO i found on http://searchengineland.com/21-essential-seo-tips-techniques-11580 and have gone with number 13 in the list...

It's all about the content...

Creating great content that uses well known keywords will increase the number of hits you get when people search in search engines like Google, yahoo or Bing.

You can use some sites to find out how well your keywords are getting searched on sites such as:
- https://adwords.google.com/o/Targeting/Explorer?__c=1000000000&__u=1000000000&ideaRequestType=KEYWORD_IDEAS

this can be a helpful way of creating effective phrases within your webpages.

Starting to be less Anti-Social with Social Media Sites

So another late post on my part for Wednesday's class also....

So another mission for us today in Blogging 101 we have to associate 2 or more Social Media Accounts with this here Blog that we has made...

So it seems that I have relocated my original Twitter Account for this project and it will have to do.
you can find it here although i havn't posted much on it as of yet...
                   - https://twitter.com/GraphixStigma

For other Social Media I have decided to go with my Facebook
                   - http://www.facebook.com/RyoujiKenji?ref=tn_tnmn

I also have made a LinkedIn Account which can be found here
                   - http://www.linkedin.com/pub/matthew-barnes/56/563/4a0

Graphix Stigma Designs Visual Overhaul

AS i realise this post is a little late being that the update was done back on Wednesday, But i've been weighed down with getting other area's of study finished... Not the greatest excuse for sure.

So for this I have created a Visually Appealing Title Image from the Female character I was working on for my Studio Practice Class... although i think i can take that image further now after a few extremely helpful tips from my Tutor.

Also made the Background image from a pre-existing piece of work from the first half of the year.

That's it for this post I believe...

Studio Practice Homework

Just finishing Course homework for the night... it's Just before Midnight I'm not sure i'll sleep well tonight...

Fingers crossed I got this one right in the end.

Here is the Original Piece of work drawn by me a few weeks ago in my spare time.

Here is the Completed piece in colour although a few changes may be needed at a later date.

Blogging Day one - Creation and initiation

Welcome to Graphix Stigma Design

Over the coming weeks I will be showing pieces of my artwork and things that I find that Interest me within the Digital design works and other art styles.

Choosing a domain name:

because the blog is about graphics design i chose to incorporate that into the name also decided that changing the cs ant the end of graphics to an x gave it a more original appeal to the name.
the word stigma is because i want my page to be infamous in the design community.

Posts will include:

- 3D computer animation artwork
- Digital Art
- Anime/Manga
- and hand drawn Artwork

By myself or other artists that inspire me in some way.