Penner Dreadful

https://www.pennerdreadful.com My final project is my professional website for my writing, and now my portfolio from this class and, hopefully, future work. Originally, I was going to re-vamp my original site but GoDaddy hosts it and their editor is minimal at best and their customer service is hot garbage. I decided to switch back to Wix and created a new site from scratch for this project and my future site. I am also thinking about linking my Blogger page to my Art Portfolio page so that others can go see the process, not just the final work on my page, but so that I may also remember where to go and see my process in the future. My new site has five pages: Home, Blog, Art Portfolio, About, and Contact. Originally, I had the Contact page under About, but decided to have it as its own page for easier navigation. I also may change “Art Portfolio” to just “Portfolio,” but am still undecided because my site was originally created for my writing which will still be the feature o

Initially, for this project, I was going to re-design my current website because I didn't want to create a whole second site. However, after fighting with GoDaddy's very limited editor (it wasn't like this a few years ago when I used it for a previous job) and their extremely poor customer service I decided to move it back to Wix (I recently went from Wix to GoDaddy because I thought their editor was still decent and I bought my domain from them for $1). It was a poor decision and I do not recommend it. So, instead, I have created a secondary Wix page and have been working on the design so that I can soon transfer my domain to them. Below are the sketches that I have worked on for the design and logo (mainly the logo, I fell down that rabbit hole). I tried to draw what I had chosen for my logo in Photoshop on my iPad because I wasn't getting anywhere near to what I wanted with my mouse and my drawing tablet from like six years ago is almost dead, the lag is like dial-

Before After So, I followed the tutorial then added a background. I thought about trying to change the jacket I'm wearing to something else, but I don't find that it's too distracting. In fact, I believe that changing the background enhances the changes made. The background is something I found on Pixabay. I couldn't find anything that really looks like something from the movie so I picked one that meshed well with the colors of the changes I made. I did have some difficulty with the eyes since my photo didn't have enough resolution to show the light and dark areas well enough to fill completely like in the tutorial. I tried to find a photo that had enough but I had no luck. I even tried to take a closer photo which didn't work either. That being said, I still think the eyes came out alright. I had to make adjustments to a lot of the colors and layers differently than the tutorial did. This got a bit frustrating at times because the colors he used did