About the Art
I'm not sure what I can say here that isn't explained in Flavored Orange, my personal site. I guess I can explain to you how I became an artist? I guess.
Starts out about the same as everyone else. I wanted to draw stuff. There's really not much else to add to that.
Tools of the trade are: paper and pencil (sometimes), tablet and Photoshop.
Recommended ProgramsThese are the ones I use so I'm biased, but check them out.
- Adobe Photoshop/Illustrator/Flash - like duh?
- Artrage - Pretty fun for a program that costs $25.
- Paint.NET - useful, but be sure to read the documentation.
- The GIMP - An open source and free sort of replacement for Adobe Photoshop. It's still very, very powerful, so give this a try for your graphics tweaking.
About Piece-Work
Piece-Work started as a personal site way long ago in the year 2003. I was young back then. I didn't know dynamic languages, so I updated the site by hard coding and updating all the relevant html pages. The transition to dynamic languages took a long, long time.
I started using PHP because I was working a job in college (I graduated high school in 2005, college in 2009) that called for a dynamically generated web display system for physical servers. Or something. That called for a more intimate look at PHP and MySQL. I got pretty comfortable with it, so I decided in my free time after college that I would program up my own gallery.
Well, you see it here. It's a gallery, powered by PHP and MySQL for the content management, and jQuery with plugins for the fancy effects. Which jQuery plugins? Check below.
- Backend, aka the Administration site you probably don't see.
- Frontend, aka what you see on the main site
Additional help came from Build Internet's sliding boxes. Everything else I cobbled together on my own.
Perhaps next up is my own blogging system. This is where I turn to Ruby on Rails, my next plunge into the ever developing world wide web languages. I'll see you there sometime.