SSarts - Fine Art and Design by Shawn Sass

jQuery Tools tabs and scrollable

Shawn — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 00:38:12 +0000

The new versions of the websites Terry’s Village and Oriental Trading were launched at the beginning of the month. My main contribution to these projects were the tabbed sections on the home page of each site. This was the first time that I had used jQuery Tools and I found it pretty easy to work with. The trickiest part was adding another link for “view all” within the tab, since the whole tab was already a link itself to a corresponding tab pane. I ended up using a button with an onClick event to keep the link from being treated like a tab. I still need to figure out how to link directly to a certain tag without a page reload. More jQuery goodness coming in the future.

Bad contact link

Shawn — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 21:56:05 +0000

My previous post had the wrong email address in the contact me link. Please use this one if you do indeed wish to contact me.

I’ve created a section in the site for my Web Design projects. I will be putting up some of my previous web design projects immediately and adding others as they come along. Check out the new Web Design section and contact me at shawn [at] ssarts [dot] com if you need any web design work done.

Created a Web Design Section

Shawn — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 21:37:51 +0000

I’ve created a section in the site for my Web Design projects. I will be putting up some of my previous web design projects immediately and adding others as they come along. Check out the new Web Design section and contact me via email at shawn [at] ssarts [dot] com if you need any web design work done.

Ethan 1 year portrait step 6

Shawn — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 18:55:30 +0000

Here’s an update on Ethan’s portrait showing the progress made since yesterday. More hair put in, some shading around the eye socket, and a start on the nose.

Ethan 1 year portrait step 5

Shawn — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 22:28:04 +0000

I apologize for the lack in updates on Ethan’s portrait in Feb. I’ve finally hunkered down to start working on it again. I must finish it in the next few days, so some caffeine will definitely be consumed… Get ready for a flood of update posts!

Anyway, here’s the latest progress. Mostly just more hair rough-in. I’m not dreading the hair as much as I usually do. Probably due to the fact that I didn’t leave it till the bitter end with a deadline looming. A little more hair work, and then it’s on to those chubby cheeks.

Ethan 1 year portrait step 4

Shawn — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 04:53:03 +0000

I finally got a chance to work on this drawing again. Here’s tonight’s progress. Ethan 1 year portrait step 4. Tonight I spent most of my time working on the eyeball and a little more shading on the edge of the forehead where it meets the hair. I also roughed in a little bit of the hair, but will continue to put that off till another time. Eyeballs are much more fun to draw than hair.

Ethan 1 year portrait step 3

Shawn — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 04:03:47 +0000

Step 3 update. More plaid, and some cheek shading.

Ethan 1 year portrait step 2

Shawn — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 00:00:59 +0000

Step 2 update… Here comes the plaid.

Nephew Ethan 1 year Portrait

Shawn — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 05:30:25 +0000

I am finally embarking on another Nephew Portrait. This very belated birthday present will be presented here in a Work in Progress (WIP) step-by-step format. I will try to post an update each night as I progress, showing the latest graphite that’s been put down. Subscribe to the RSS feed to be automatically informed of each update. Here is the first step shown along with the reference photo.

Happy Birthday Adobe

Shawn — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 19:36:21 +0000

It’s amazing how many images you view every day that were touched by an Adobe product at some time in their production. Check out the site they’ve launched to celebrate the 25 years of their existence:

http://www.adobe.com/aboutadobe/history/