Happy Valentine’s Day, everyone! I love all of you who take the time to read my blog, visit my website, and support my artwork and hobbies. Thank you so much for giving me a little bit of your valuable time and attention. The website updates are going great; you may… Read More »Happy Valentine’s Day
Ah! I’ve refreshed my resume for the new year. Feels so nice and new, even though it’s all the same information, hopefully in a more easy-to-understand quickly format because there is a lot on there. I am a person rich in skills and diverse working experiences. I’ve removed my contact… Read More »Updated Resume
Hello again, internet. Life has been busy. I’m almost four years out of college and I’ve been pretty consumed with living. Many years ago I build a portfolio website to exhibit all of my creating–I make a lot of stuff. I paint, I sew, I build, I craft, I concoct… Read More »Shiny New Website
I am now registered with the Mass Board of Library Commissioner’s Performers List! Some of you may know that I teach “How to Draw Manga” Workshops at Libraries and Community centers across the state of Massachusetts. I started teaching these workshops back in 2003 (yikes) and began by cold-calling libraries… Read More »Libraries of the World, Here I Come! (How to Draw Manga Workshop)
I have given my studio a permanent home on Shaunart.net with its very own page! Complete with address, visiting hours, directions, and postings about upcoming events. The page is small right now but it is sure to grow and change. Check it out at: http://www.shaunart.net/pages/the_studio
I am now accepting commissions on wig styling, costume design, & costume construction, and I have added a special new page to my website with details and rates. I have been cosplaying for nine years, and always make my own costumes, wigs, and props. Now that I am out of… Read More »Costume Design & Wig Commissions Accepted
For those of you not on the mailing list, my June Newsletter is out. If you’d like to get these emails sent to your inbox, you should sign up for my mailing list here. Newsletter_June2012.pdf
Great news, mobile users! I have finally found (someone has finally made) a free html5 embedded flicker sideshow widget. That means that all of my work can now be viewed on the website from your iPad! No more telling my visitors to go to flickr to view my stuff on… Read More »New Gallery Slideshows in HTML5
The other day in a fit of inspiration, I set about the task of redesigning my website. This semester I’ve been learning a lot about branding myself as an artist, and one of my goals for the semester is to create a cohesive package of promotional materials which include website,… Read More »New Website Launch
Web design is one of those hobbies that gives me just as many headaches as it does feelings of accomplishment. Sure, I am proud of all the things that I have taught myself about building a website over the years, but there are still so many things that I have… Read More »Web design updates & Blog Posts on the Homepage
Today I have spent a considerable amount of time going over the Galleries on Shaunart.net and re-structuring them to be easier to use, better looking, and more informative. Check out the Artwork Page to see the changes that I have made there, and while you’re at it, poke around in… Read More »Added a New Gallery
For anyone who follows my costume work, the long awaited pictures from the Howl’s Moving Castle photoshoot are in. You can view the full shoot on my cosplay blog, here. I’ve also updated the Sophie Hatter costume page with more pictures.
Hello everyone, I have decided to move my manga blog to one of my subdomains so that I can play around with editing options there. My manga blog is one that I almost never update, so I thought that it would be a safe way to try out something new.… Read More »Manga Blog Moved
The semester has just begun and we’ve already had so much snow that I’ve missed at least five classes, and today I will be missing more! Not that I don’t love snow days, I do. But they’ve been all lumped together which means that none of my classes have even… Read More »Excessive Snow-Days Have Halted Productivity.
I have added a batch of new images to the galleries. Almost all sections have received additions. At this point, I think I have added just about everything I wanted to. But of course, new work will come as I make it. If you’d like to see more pictures, you… Read More »New Pictures in Galleries and more on Flickr
W00t! After weeks of learning and working and trying and re-trying, I finally fulfilled several of my web goals. I have learned how to build a simply website from scratch using HTML. I have learned some very handy basics of the coding language, and I have found ways to manipulate… Read More »Exciting New Web Galleries!
Once again, I have re-made my website, or at least the design. This time, hopefully, I will be happy with it for a little longer. The big change, and the big reason why I think this one will be one to keep for a while is the width of the… Read More »I did it again.
REFRESH TO SEE UPDATES ON SHAUNART.NET (if you are reading this from the main site, sometimes updates don’t show up without a refresh. so do it now) But back to the post– So, I’ve told you all about this piece of work before, but I made you search your iTunes… Read More »iTunes Album art in Commissions gallery
As you may have noticed, the website looks quite a bit different than it did a day ago. I have moved the navigation bar to the left side of the screen, and changed the color scheme and the web banner. I have been going around the site cleaning out old… Read More »Big Changes.
I am in the process of re-working my website. I hope to make it simpler and easier to navigate. I also want to cut down on unnecessary content while giving important content more space to stand out. One of the first things that I have updated it my biography. You… Read More »Reworking the site.
Hey everyone, So typically, I do a lot of updating after getting back from a convention, and believe me, I do have a lot to update. However I am experiencing some super computer problems which are going to make it very difficult for me to update the site or the… Read More »Forgive the Lull in Updates
A while back I designed a business package for a fictional musician or music school with the hopes that it could someday be modified to fit my younger brother’s needs as a free-lance musician. Yesterday, that business package, which included a business card design, came in handy. Now my brother… Read More »Custom Business Card in Commissions Gallery
I have completed a new illustration! It has been added to the website’s main gallery as well as the illustration page. This is a graphite 9×12 illustration of a waterfall spirit. Our assignment was to create some sort of denizen of nature. A spirit, or ghoul, or god of the… Read More »Waterfall Illustration
Today I’ve updated my artistic achievements list as well as the list of cons that I’ve attended to include I-con and Anime Boston 2010.
So I’ve made a couple of changes to the homepage and how I will be adding news to the site. From now on, (unless people don’t like it) the RSS feed from this blog will appear automatically as the “latest news” on the homepage of the main site. Updates will… Read More »Changes to the Homepage and New Illustration
I have linked this blog to the main site and have decided to designate it as an un-categorized art blog. This site will take the place of my old art blog where I will publish updates on my school projects and leisure art. And perhaps news on commissions if something… Read More »Linked to the site
Today I re-designed the entire main website. On top of creating a new blog for my Manga. After having created a whole blog for my Cosplay stuff yesterday! I’m so tired. But I still have more updates coming soon. As well as a lot of proof reading to do….