Slow progress

So much work done and still so little to build on.

My consolation is I'm putting the hours in along with the view that when you're starting out you sometimes have to work through a lot of rubbish before you start getting good.

I've been experimenting with the introductory front page (with the sun rising) and the web banner for the main index page.

I've made progress with the (demo) animation but there are two problems.

The first is when I mask out the sun it won't always disappear completely, this could be due to the brush I'm using, I don't know.

Secondly, the thought has occurred to me that it's no use having an introductory page that's stylistically very different from the web banner, I need some uniformity of design.

Where the banner is concerned I've been playing around with two different styles. One is based on the old Sun record label, I thought it might look nice to have a semi-circle kind of record-like sun at the top of the page.

However, I do like the original banner I came up with, the one with the lovely dark to sky blue gradient.

I think I'll stick with and adapt that one for now I'll try and build some simplicity from that.

A few more things

I had one of those "Where have you been all my life moments?" the other day. I discovered speech bubbles in the custom shapes section as well as musical notation and sun shapes. Oh well, better late than never.

Despite my slow pace I am, as I say, putting the work in.