I've been starting to get together some more work for Philipa's Patch, and actually started attempting to make something that looks the tiniest bit like a home page. I made some backgrounds from watercolours, which can be seen in my sketchbook, scanned them in and then used them as backgrounds for my website. Below is just a screenshot (of course, this is a work in progress)
I feel as though the background works really well, I'd also tried one in red, which I don't feel looked as good. However there are still a few adjustments that need to be made, the logo looks a little lost at the moment, and so needs to be bigger, and the text on the website needs to have a block colour background (seen here in the white) because otherwise it's hard to read.
Today I've also been thinking about the motion piece that needs to be embedded in the website, and I was thinking of doing something with photographs of the restaurant. I wasn't really sure what kind of feeling an animation would give off, and if I were to do an animation, I'd definitely try and do one completely hand rendered on acetate rather than on the computer, which gives off quite an "organic" feel. After seeing examples of this, I think the technique is really nice, but not something I envisaged for Philipa's website.
