pierski.com

Improving Visibility

pierski — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 13:22:52 +0000

These are a few of the links that I used during the Improving Web Visibility panel at ConnectiCon:

Firebug - Allows you to test and modify HTML and CSS code from inside Firefox. (getfirebug.com)

Search Engine Spider Simulator - See what content a spider actually sees when they search your site. (webconfs.com/search-engine-spider-simulator.php)

Website Grader - Tool that searches a lot of basic criteria for website design. (websitegrader.com)

Lorem Ipsum - Latin text to fill in designs when there is no real text to go there. (lipsum.com)

Before and After

pierski — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 13:40:06 +0000

The recently released Games I’m glad were never made… (poster) that I created has a lot of updated artwork on it. I mentioned on Dueling Analogs that I intended to show some of that before and after artwork. So I decided to post one of the updates here on pierski.com.

This image is from the the parody game Shrek’s Donkey Punch that originally appeared in this comic. While I felt the original image worked fine for the web, the print version needed to look a lot better. So I took the vectors, pulled it into Photoshop and recolored it. I was very pleased with the results.

New Illustration

pierski — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 05:08:09 +0000

I added a new piece to the gallery. It’s an illustration of Scud: The Disposable Assassin by Rob Schrab.

Gallery Redesign

pierski — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 07:58:05 +0000

I updated the way that the art gallery section links to the pieces. As of right now the Samus Aran - Metroid piece is the only one that links to the new page. But I plan to remedy that very soon.

Rebel Bytes 2.1

pierski — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 05:57:21 +0000

Mitch Donaberger created the original image for this animation for 4 color rebellion. It’s from their one-panel comic project, Rebel Bytes. And it demanded to be animated. So I did.

First Sample

pierski — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 03:26:27 +0000

This is the first sample of me working on the new Konami Code poster. The first image is the left most apostle from the original Last Supper painting by Leonardo da Vinci. The next image is the same apostle from the Dueling Analogs Konami Code comic. And lastly, the far right image is the same apostle from the poster version I am currently working on.

Hopefully, you can tell from the images that I’m updating the style a little and having some fun in the process. Not going for anything close to exact. Just going for similar and fun. Also, the last image is far from done. The hair is still very chaotic and there’s a lot of color shades still missing on the face.

Just wanted to let you guys see where I am currently at. I’ll add a new posting when the first apostle is at least 95% done.

More Changes

pierski — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 07:16:11 +0000

So the way the gallery page looks in FireFox and Safari is exactly how I wanted it to look. Unfortunately, Internet Explorer doesn’t like playing well with others. So this weekend I’m updating the gallery from being shadowed pop-ups of the full-sized pieces to stand alone pages with the single full-size piece displayed.

Every time I think I’m done, this site keeps pulling me back in!

Gone Live

pierski — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 18:38:07 +0000

Who knew it would only take me 7 1/2 years after I bought the this URL to actually take my portfolio site live?

Honestly, I’m impressed with the client base I have garnered over the years simply by word of mouth and via my other online projects. Now, I’m curious to see what happens next seeing that that I actually have an online portfolio.

To be a real artist, you need to have one of these, don’t you know?