Feedback on my Website?

Kasey Snow

Here's a screenshot to save some link clicking time. x)

@Kasey-Snow This looks so much better in my opinion, it's cleaner and looks very professional I would also maybe make your social media icons the same colour as your name and make them a bit smaller?
It's looking really great

djly

@Kasey-Snow - sorry to just get back to you, sick kiddo! Your site is really coming together nicely, I really like how you changed the mouse-over to a lower opacity. The only other thing I might add is taking another look at the thumbnails and seeing where they cut-off. I know some are not a "square" but maybe you could crop so you are getting the best piece of the image?

For example, on the dragon in the kidlit page (below), perhaps you could focus in on the top portion or head of the dragon, right now we are cutting off on both the tail and the head.

Feel free to take it or leave it, of course! Again, really nice progress.

Kasey Snow

@djly For sure valid feedback! I am frustrated with those thumbnails as well, the platform atuocrops it and there isn't really a way for me to adjust it that I can find. The only thing that seems to fix it is making the squares bigger so that face isn't cut off. But then the squares on the kidlit page are much bigger than the others. I dunno how important uniformity of thumbnail size is across the site though.

djly

@Kasey-Snow - oh I see, that is frustrating! Perhaps someone here with more experience than me on what publishers look for would be helpful. I don't think it is a huge issue but just wanted to provide the feedback.

I'm not sure if you can control any of the html/css coding, but if you can, maybe that would be a route if it something you end up wanting to fix. It seems like this is a fairly straightforward tutorial: https://www.w3schools.com/howto/howto_css_thumbnail.asp

Again, I think it looks fine the way it is but just wanted to put it out there.

lenwen

I love your artworks! I think the website is already nice and tidy.
The only thing which I can give input is, from my own experience when I check my website's traffic, most of my website visitors only check the front page. They barely click on the thumbnails to check for more images possibility. Also, from what I heard on Podcasts that art buyers/ art directors they are a very visual and busy person. They probably will only check the front page and make decisions from that frontpage without digging more (CMIIW).
So, what I did is I try to keep my website as simple as possible without too many menus or links and try to put all the best images on the front page so visitors can immediately have an idea about my works right after they hit my website. Hope it helps

Good luck for you!

Kasey Snow

Thanks again everyone for the input! I took it all in and ended up totally revamping the website with a newer and hopefully more professional-looking design. Also stuck all my better (in my opinion) portfolio pieces on the front to hopefully entice prospective clients.

If you have a sec to check it out, let me know if it looks okay or if I need to consider changing some other stuff.
https://www.kaseysnow.com/
Image preview:

Chip Valecek

@Kasey-Snow looks great! I like the white background. That loin in the water is amazing.

xin li

@Kasey-Snow neat portfolio. Very tidy website.
I echo what @lenwen is saying. I actually did not realize there was a sub-menu on the Portfolio tab. I thought the front page is the portfolio page, until I read @lenwen 's comment

If you want to show art buyers your creature design skill, and sculpture skill, they need to be more prominent. Make the submenu visitble at glance without needing hover to discover will help a little, if you really need section your work to avoid getting too messy (I am struggle to find this balance myself ).

Hope this make sense, and good luck

Kasey Snow

Thanks so much @Chip-Valecek ! I appreciate the feedback.

@xin-li Thank you for your feedback! I'm glad it looks tidy. As for the sub-menu, I tried loads of menu styles for sectioning my portfolio to show more work (it's so tough to figure out that balance!) and so far this is the best--but I agree, it does make it easy to miss the sections. Perhaps I'll add some text on the portfolio page that elaborates about clicking to see more, especially for people not using a desktop.

I am struggling at the moment with even keeping the sculpture/creature design sections in there, to be honest. I love doing those things, but they are more "passion projects" and not something I foresee being able to actually get clients with. I am also worried that it will make me look like a jack of all trades, master of none type thing and maybe decrease my professionalism? Not sure. Don't want to confuse or turn away future clients.

I also worry that perhaps my style is too all over the place. I am trying to work on that, but it's tough. I'm definitely still in the stage of figuring out how I like to work. Time will fix that, I hope. But it'd be nice if things could look a little more cohesive.