Assignment: Button MANIA

ma·ni·a (mā'nē-ə, mān'yə) n.

1. An excessively intense enthusiasm, interest, or desire; acraze: a mania for neatness.
2. Psychiatry  A manifestation of bipolar disorder, characterizedby profuse and rapidly changing ideas, exaggerated sexuality,gaiety, or irritability, and decreased sleep.
3. Violent abnormal behavior. See Synonyms at insanity.

In my last post I said I finished my buttons project but didn't go into it much since it's much better to have a separate post detailing such projects. Okay, so the assignment was to make buttons for our site using Fireworks. 

It's not tremendously difficult in process. The hardest thing was just to figure out what to make buttons of. They had to have one look when just on the page, when moused over, and when clicked. For me, I made the images in Illustrator and then pulled them over to Fireworks to get them into an animated gif sort of form. 

I like how they came out for the most part but I wish I wasn't so rusty with Illustrator so they could have looked better. 

Messin' around with Corel Painter

Wooo... I got my button mania work done last class mostly so I've had some time to mess around with other computer programs. I've always had an interest in painting but found that I'm really no good at it. Also, that it's tremendously messy when I get to it.

With nothing much else on my plate I decided to try out a digital painting program. I'm not suddenly a master artist, but it takes away the mess aspect (which can be fun though, I admit). There were three programs really catching my attention: ArtRage, Sai, and Painter. I went with the last one because I have to start somewhere. Later I'll get to the others. It's always best to do test runs with multiple programs before settling on one.

Yay my first messy attempt! I can only practice and start to get somewhere eventually.