I’ve wanted a mobile-friendly site for some time now, but was limited by a personal insistence on hand-coding. But recently, having a portfolio that was not only mobile friendly but easy to update became paramount. So I swallowed my pride, switched web hosts, and picked a template. Thus far, I’m very glad I did.
The latest addition to the portfolio is a pencil-paper-Photoshop piece called Golden. The idea of using a golden spiral to compose an image was from a digital painting textbook. (For reasons I still can’t fathom, I was the teacher instead of a student for that particular digital painting course. I learned just as much, if not more, about the subject as my students did.) The golden spiral struck my fancy for composing this drawing for several reasons: The snail shell appearance is interesting, drawing it takes some concentration but the math is not difficult, and the shape fits the curve of a dragon very nicely. The spiral also contributes to the name of the drawing: Golden spiral, golden hamster… and a dragon that is feeling rather the opposite of golden right now.
Golden
Pencil on paper, color inverted and adjusted in Photoshop.