Module 6 - Part 1 - Website Design Sketches

The timing on this project is actually really good. I just started working for The House of the Good Shepherd about 2 months ago. We just contracted with a really talented agency named Trainor and Associates (http://www.trainor.com/). We are going to be paying them to rework our logo (not change it but we are going to be changing the coloring) and redo our website.

I want to be prepared to show them what my vision is (though my work will obviously not be as well done as theirs) when we meet next week to start the 3-4 month process of re-imagining our image. As the Director of Development and Communications the landing page and the donate page are the two most important ones for me.

I will lay out with my limited Photoshop skills the way that I would like to have the landing page and donate page look so that when we meet with Trainor they will have some idea on what I would like to see. I am going to change the color of the logo and the color scheme from what we have on our current website (www.changingchildrenslives.com). On the donate page, I want to add some functionality for them to go to a page that lists our various special events, a page that takes them to planned giving (which includes large gifts, wills and bequests) and then a link for them to donate online. Though of course these links will not actually go anywhere in this design.

Below the links on the donate page I would like to show potential donors what their donation can do. I always have been a big proponent of connecting a donor's gift amount with something specific that it can accomplish. I have not decided for sure yet on what the amounts and links will be. I just put in a few gift amounts and a few things that they might be able to do with the gift amounts and I will refine that when I actually make the pages in the next few days.

Photomontage - Avatar - Part 2

I originally was going to do a zombie hunter but I wanted to make some adjustments to his face so I made a zombie instead. I found the background and the lower half of his face along with the photo of Luke Evans online. I then merged them all together for this image.

I also added some tearing to the skin on the forehead and cheek and darkened his eyes quite a bit to make them look almost black with a hint of the iris in them. It would not have been realistic to change his eye size to make him into a zombie so I did not do that. 

Photomontage for Module 5 - Fantasy Avatar

For the fantasy avatar project I have two sketches. These are each characters that I use in various online games. The first avatar is for a character that I have for an online game that is set up much like The Walking Dead. Post zombie apocalypse.

The model for this avatar is Luke Evans, he was in Dracula Untold and various other movies. In the background I would place a post apocalyptic type skyline, to the right of the frame would be a set of shambling zombies and the main character would be on the left side. Under the entire image I would place the character's name which is Victor Cain.

The second avatar is for a barbarian character that I use in Diablo III. Though in both of these cases I don't actually need avatars I think that since I have spent time building the characters that it might be fun to put together something to visualize them.

This avatar is for a character named Exavier Exeter. The model would be Jason Mamoa from Conan the Barbarian. I would have mountains or some other scene like that in the background and then to the lower right I would insert some sort of a battle scene. I would place the name on the avatar in the center. 

I am not sure which I like better at this point but I am leaning towards the zombie hunter character.