View the website at: https://artbyrowan.com/
Purpose & Considerations
Rowan is a 16-year-old artist based in Minnesota. He’s a super cool kid, and you’ll often find him covered in paint and listening to MCR. He’s been creating for probably over half his life and longer than I can remember, and plans to attend MCAD to major in Comic Art.
In creating this website, one of my major goals was to help support Rowan in creating a portfolio for school. He recently started taking art commissions and needs a platform to get that going, too. Additional considerations include, 1, Rowan is an artist and wants to update this website himself, and, 2, he is on a teen-artist budget.
Design
Drafts and Decisions
All good designs start with drafts! To gain some direction with this project, I sent Rowan three quick ideas based off of what I know about him.
Out of the three samples I showed him, Rowan liked the space style most. He wanted to take things in more of a pixel art game direction, which was super fun to create!
He liked this collage style and concept but wanted things that looked more 80s/90s style.
This one was not a hit, but helped me understand Rowan’s dislikes for colors and layouts.
Final Design
To give Rowan 100% creative control over his website and keep costs low, I purchased a website domain through Squarespace and created this website through Canva. Since Rowan is already on my Canva plan, this means his monthly costs are $0.
After a game-style home screen, users select cards to proceed with navigation. This works because the website has so few pages.
The Shop page is styled like a video game store, but tiles lead to Paypal links.
The My Art page features clickable tiles and arrows for a visual design reminiscent of the Nintendo DS.
Final Thoughts
After finishing in less than 10 hours, this project was a great example of how quickly a website really can come together. It’s clear how much I’ve learned compared to past projects. Now, I am able to streamline and work much more efficiently that I have a solid creative process.
I feel accomplished in my goals of offering Rowan something to expand upon for an art portfolio and online presence. I’m excited to see where he takes it!
If you’re looking for an art commission, please visit his Contact page here!: https://artbyrowan.com/contact
Autumn Lemieux 
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