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I just finished working on a sideline project for a friend — a little job that, like most little jobs, turned into a huge investment of time. But because I decided to do this right<\/em>, not just execute it but really bring all my talents to bear on it, I had fun doing it and am proud of the final result.<\/div>\n<\/p>\n
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My pal Kirsten<\/a> is a “travel author” who flits about the world to off-the-beaten path places and has the oddest things happen to her, which she then writes about. She rails against this idea of women traveller\/writers all being about spas and lavender and falling in love; she prefers the weird, real life of unfamiliar worlds. So, with this in mind, she’s launching “Writers’ Expeditions<\/a>” and wanted a section of her website to showcase this.<\/div>\n<\/p>\n
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Like I said, rather than just getting this done, I decided to use my new-found interest in drawing to really customise this mini-site. Kis always gives me barge-loads of copy to incorporate, which is probably appropriate here, giving lots of background when it’s such a big investment for people to make. I figured I could break up all this copy and draw the reader’s eye around the page by including lots of illustrations.<\/div>\n<\/p>\n
It took me every spare minute to get this finished in time, and of course I never charge enough for these jobs, but I’m really chuffed about how this turned out, even though the page is busy as hell:<\/div>\n<\/p>\n
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Doing this took me right back to my first days of getting a computer and discovering the joy of pulling my drawings into it and getting them to do stuff on-screen. Between the drawing, painting, scanning, and website design, I’m left feeling really charged and compelled to pursue two things:<\/div>\n<\/p>\n
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    I want to treat my work on paper like it’s art. I’ve got my first “gallery showing” next month — a local event that anyone can pay to be in. I’ve attended in the past, and there’s some remarkable, top-notch work by some masterful artists who just happen to have chosen to live up here, then there are some really Gawd-awful, childish messes hanging on display. So we’ll see where I fit into that; my work is certainly not like anything I’ve seen around here.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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    I would like to take advantage of these tools for myself. There’s all the web-stuff, like on Kis’s site, and that could be even more interactive. Then there’s a program called Hype that I’ve got and not touched which makes it possible — and easy — to create fully interactive, animated content (like we used to get on DVD-ROMs back in the days before everything was online); best of all, they’re HTML5-compliant, so they’ll work on just about any browser and device with no plug-ins.<\/p>\n

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    What I want to do with these tools is bring stories and ideas and images together in a fun, interactive way. For some reason I can’t explain, I know there’s an energy in my drawings that comes across. It seems to give more to the viewer — and do it more quickly — than the novels did. So this seems like a way to do it all at once and have it be much more accessible, less of an ‘ask’ and more of a ‘give’.<\/div>\n<\/p>\n
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    And it’s fun. And it doesn’t take a year-and-a-half to excute each idea!<\/div>\n<\/p>\n
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