Layout #107: Black and White

Layout #107: Black and White. Click here to return the layout listing.

Name : Black and White
Index : No
Made : Shaza—Jly 11th, 2006
Site : Neko-Mata
Brushes : No;
Shapes : Yes; Circles, squares
Effects : Yes; Multiply
Fonts : Gills Sans Ultra Bold, Sergeant Six Pack & Sans-Serif for CSS
Navigation : Yes; Overlaps.
Artist/Comic : Yes; Hiroyuki Takei—Shaman King
Original Picture from : #manga-rain edit from Volume 19 by me
Process : This layout came out of my utter urge to challenge myself by using only two colors. I wanted to use a fully black and qhite layout with no grayscale whatsoever. Also, within this, make it so I wouldn’t use any brushes and make it have a vector quality. In this case, I really believe I did succeed. The process itself was a pretty simple one. I first cut out the manga image, multiplied it, and cleaned around it to make it complete.Then, I used black and white shapes around, placing them in an intricate fashion. In general, the layout actually started off against a plain white background, so black were all the shapes and so forth. However, I saw this was loosing or missing something. Then, I created that black and white background you see there, and used white shapes and things behind as well. This added a lot of body to the layout and made it more complicated. The content area I wanted to be built into the layout instead of apart from it, so I attached it as such, spreading the links out with a font, and then rasterizing and using shapes on top of it to give it a more customized look to be APART of the layout rather than just text put everywhere. This is also part of the reason I used the word “Neko” in between black and white so I could highlight effect of black and white colors. The headers in the white box I made simple shapes to match with the layout. I was careful to make it simple and nice. This made the box and everything fit really nicely. The scrollbar was also pretty simple feel to it. I also thought the side was pretty cool, because I made the shapes on the side in the shape of a striped tail (if you look closely)

Description : Matamune the cat, sitting on the side of a total black and white layout with repeating lines diagnolly as a pattern. This was my expirement with two colors solely to challenge myself and limit what I could do. The expirement worked out really well I believe.