The competition

With the principles I had learned in mind I began looking at websites for concept designers and illustrators.

Some of the websites I looked at were...

http://www.kwanchang.com/
http://theartofjaelee.com/
http://www.jzconcepts.com/
http://jungsketch.blogspot.com/
http://www.targeteart.com/
http://www.ryanchurch.com/

These website showcased a lot of the principles I had learned but a few had the flaws as well.

http://www.kwanchang.com/ the website for comic book artist and illustrator Leinil Francis Yu, a hero of mine was very simply laid out and the navigation was easy as well. There was no time and bandwidth consuming java animations or anything like that. However the website, although it is pertained to be his official website seems only to be there to sell examples of his work and seems to have little in the way of a contact or 'biography' page.

http://www.theartofjaelee.com/ is the website for comic book artist Jae Lee, another hero of mine. His website was again simple and easy to navigate and had clear navigation. It had all the sections I would expect, the only thing I wasn't keen on was the caricature on the homepage, which I thought made it look a little unprofessional...

http://www.jzconcepts.com/ was a website I chose at random as an example of a website for a concept designer. It was a professional looking website and the artwork was showcased well, however the navigation menu's were quite small and all the artwork displayed for some reason kept scrolling across the page and would not remain static which was quite annoying. Another annoying thing about the site was the music that instantly played.  This was a no go area according to Crowder "Automatically playing music on websites can quickly alienate viewers and the wrong music can cause a viewer to close the website completely" (2008:73).

http://jungsketch.blogspot.com/ is the website of famous concept artist Steve Jung, although this is another website which states it is his official website but it reads much more like a blog and has little navigation short of what blogger has as standard.

http://www.targeteart.com/ was the website of artist JP targete and was a website that required the viewer to click through from the title page to reach the homepage. On the title page there were several examples of JP's work but all were of a very specific fantasy art theme. I found this to be quite odd as anyone who was thinking of hiring JP for something other than fantasy art would be instantly put off. However apart from a few small quibbles with hard to find scroll bars on the pages the website was otherwise well put together.

http://www.ryanchurch.com/ is another website I chose at random, he is a small concept artist but his site although simple is well planned out and very easy to navigate. It did lack a little style but I think it does it's job and all the art is showcased very well.