Bootstrap!!

Its amazing! I still don't know a ton about it but I do intent now on using it to make my website. No idea either if it can be used in conjunction with Wordpress but I guess we'll see at some point. Finally got the commissions and they're awesome too, so now I can really start building parts of my website. Still iffy about the color scheme of it all but I figured I'd build it first with a basic color scheme and then change the css and images later on.

Some Artwork

After surfing through DeviantArt I found a really nice line art of a wolf, made for you to color. This was perfect for a few of my characters because they're shape-shifters, animals specifically, and their wolf form is their most common and is also very tall. I have an idea to put markings on them as well signifying a few things but those will come later. Either way I needed something to show off their wolf forms and found it through this line art. A friend of mine did her magic to them in MS Paint I believe and colored them for me. Here they are, just two of them for now:

 

My friend that did the coloring was Fluffomaru from DeviantArt.

The person who did the line art was Lenval from DeviantArt.

Basic Mock-up

Now that my capstone is actually in my face I decided to start working on it now and through the summer instead of waiting until the fall semester to do so. The first thing I decided to do was make a mock-up of my website's homepage in Photoshop. It only took me an hour or so to make a VERY basic mock-up, to just line out where everything would be and to see exactly what I need, be it from myself or other people since I can't draw jack.

 

Like I said, a very basic mock-up, but you have to start somewhere. Especially since I don't normally do these. My next step is to start filling in the blanks, commissioning people to either color pieces of art I already have or doing whole new ones. That and figuring out and making the logos for the organizations that exist within my story.

Capstone Update

Its been awhile since I've posted anything up so I figured I'd put an update. This semester I've been dallying around with possible other ideas for my capstone other than my story, which is what I originally started out with. The biggest one that actually had my heart for a bit was to do a website that helped parents help their kids when it came to making some cool contraptions when it came to the Lego Mindstorm NXT's. I was going to have picture instructions on how to build them, step by step tutorials on how to program them, and then a video showing how it should run.

Unfortunately this became to impossibly big. Some of the ideas required extra components that didn't come with the box set, and the set itself was amazingly expensive. The school now owns two that I could use but someone else already wished to use them and to have to build, take pictures and video, as well as test run everything at school in the room they were kept in while someone else wished to do the same was too much. Also just to program them with anything but the block language it came with was something new and too difficult to do, especially since my main focus wanted to be on building my website and showing those skills, not focusing on the Lego Mindstorms.

So instead I've cemented my capstone to my story and am now making mock-ups in Photoshop of the pages as well as trying to commission people to draw the things I need when it comes to characters and the like.

My capstone mentor will be Jennifer Stewart.