Websuccess!

And it's done!

(Well nearly... bells and whistles to come, but for the moment, we have lift-off!)

Check it out!

Redesign!

Yes, my fabulously astute readers, Hogwash & Nonsense looks a bit different. Quite observant of you!

Since finishing the comics class, I have not yet taken a (much-needed) break, but have spent the past nine hours or so working on redesigning my website (read: alternately staring at the computer screen until my eyeballs glaze over and smashing my head against the keyboard).

Sigh.

But, in anticipation of the redesign (and in order to once again feel like a competent human being) I made some changes to the ole blog.

So sit tight and hold onto your hats... it's going to be exciting!

More Secrets! New Website Design!

Hello lovely people!

So following last week's super secret project, it's been back to work on the book project. I finished-ish a new spread for the book... as in the majority of the painting is done, so now I hang it on my studio wall, stare at it for a couple of days/nights/weeks and try to figure out what's wrong/what it needs until my eyes go crossed and buggy and I either smoosh some more paint on it, or with a sigh of resignation, add it to the ever-growing pile of mostly-finished spreads. I also figured out a sketch that I am semi-content with for one of the two remaining spreads. That being said, I will probably sketch another bucket full of thumbnails, throw them all out, but perhaps, perchance, just maaaaybe come up with one I like better. We shall see... so the book project is wrapping up, albeit rather slowly.

But in other news, I am giving my website a major-for-serious-redo-everything sort of overhaul. The design of my current website is severely lacking, so at the end of last term, I had come up with a new idea that I started to implement. I tried to work further on it, but eventually decided that I was just getting waaaay waaaaaaay too complicated... and in true Lisa fashion, I scrapped the whole thing, including, quite sadly the little owl lamp (see "Sneak Preview" post for the animation) and the following teacup -

and just because I love it... the owl lamp again...

Alas...

But! But! I sat at my drawing table all week and once again after scrapping sixteen and a half different ideas, did a redesign for the whole site that I think will eventually be pretty sweet. I've spent most of the week working on it.

And thus I give you... sneak preview!

Website!!!! (Many exclamation points needed...)

So you may be wondering where I've been and why my posts have been so few and far between. Well, dear readers, wonder no longer. Much of my time of late has been spent hunched over the keyboard like a good little code monkey punching in all sorts of things that now make some sort of strange sense - divs and ids and classes and <> - and combing through lines of code in search of missing back slashes and semi colons. I kid you not. One missing semi colon is the difference between working code and a big ole mess of gobbledygook. (Apparently gobbledygook is one word... I did not know that.)

But behold! The gloriousness of a website built from scratch!

I know it looks a bit sparse at the moment. I still want to play with the design of it. I have thoughts and ideas and plans but little time for implementing. I intend to keep updating and fixing things as I go along, but for the time being, it's nice to have a working portfolio site.