The first version of Xenostar.net, and my best job that I’ve done with tables. I actually liked this website a lot, but I had to ditch it for a few reasons. The first being that, if I was going to move on as a web designer, I had to stop using tables. Secondly, I’ve wanted to implement a CMS into a website for a long time, and was finally able to do that with this version of Xenostar.

A client site for Christina A. Hrycyna, a college Chemistry Professor at Purdue University. This website was very clean, even though it isn’t CSS based. You can check it out now in action at the Purdue Website.

A school project for my Web Design II class. My clients were less than enthusiastic about anything that had to do with the web, much less a website. In the end, the site was picked from the bunch as being one of the most well designed layouts created in the class. I was very happy with this project; especially because it was part of a transition to CSS layouts. Take a look at the code and notice that almost every table has a CSS modifier.

An illustration I did for my reappearance on the web, for the Xenostar Forums. I actually never though I could do illustrations until I worked on this and the piece below. This was completed in roughly 5 hours, 100% in photo shop from scratch (no scans from sketches). I hope to get a WACOM tablet in the future to make initial character design move quicker.

What started as a simple, pixely sketch in Photoshop turned into this. This image has gone through so many changes, but I finally liked this version the most. In the end, I scrapped it and worked on the image above, because I didn’t like this character’s bland position. Before doing this illustration, however, I never thought I had the ability to make something like this. 100% Photoshop, no sketches prior.

A sweet photo edit that my dad helped me on. We actually set up a blue screen (link later) to take pictures on with a blanket. Let me tell you, that blue screen stuff actually works very well. I removed my self from the photo and put about 40 layers on top of it to create this. The jacket I’m wearing is a Burton 2007 Jacket of the Gods.

This was a fun image to create for a number of reasons. Firstly, it was a complete experiment with Japanese and other font faces. Secondly, the characters are very sketchy, you can see the outlines of the pen tool. I did that on purpose, believe it or not, just because I like the chaotic feel. I’ll be doing a Flash Manga in the future featuring an art style like this because of how easy it is to create cool images at a quick speed.

This was my first photo manipulation back in 2002. I actually really liked this banner at the time, even though I know its completely bland now. Anyway, I thought it was worth putting on here thanks, just for memories.

Another starting photo manipulation of mine. It isn’t very advanced, but I really loved this when I made it, because I finally thought I had created something interesting. I suppose it isn’t that bad considering I made it when I was 13.

The Enshare Online forums have had an incredibly long legacy, and were one of the real reasons I got interested in web design. What originally started as an ezboard, slowly morphed over the years, from MMF (Megaman Forums), to KGP Art, to Enshare.net Forums, and finally, to Enshare Online. Over the years we had thousands of separate users and near 40,000 posts on different topics. Today, the forums rest in peace, with the Xenostar Forums taking it’s place. Needless to say, I have yet to achieve the same success that I did with my Enshare Online project.