About the Artist
Hello! My name is Caroline Critchlow, and I'm a graphic designer, artist, and owner of Dream-Tide.net. Backed up with 8 years of self taught HTML and Photoshop knowledge, I enjoy designing and creating websites, ads, characters, worlds, and anywhere else my imagination takes me. I live and work from Santa Fe, NM, and spend my spare time on the internet playing World of Warcraft.
I first became interested in Art in elementary school watching cartoons like Digimon and Cardcaptor Sakura. With my friend Mairi we became fans of the genre and of recreating it with our own characters. I continued in that direction as the internet grew to be a bigger part of my life. Artists from DeviantArt inspired me with the variety of styles and abilities of people around the world at my fingertips. I took art classes in high school, including AP Studio Art, in which I scored a 3.
Web design first became an interest to me in junior high, when I got involved in a small blogging community and anime fansites. I spent free time and the mentorship program at my school to teach myself HTML and (back then) Photoshop 5.5. My interest in web graphics spread to signatures, banners, and icons, as well as integrating with my passion for drawing to make digital art.
I also have a strong background in computers, having used them most of my life. In 2004 me and Sonja Romero placed second runner up in the Supercomputing Challenge, a statewide programming competition. Since then I have worked closely with the challenge and my mother's afterschool/summer program Project GUTS, a sibling program to the challenge. After graduating Monte del Sol Charter School in Santa Fe, class of 2007, I spent a semester in Redmond, WA, attending Digipen Institute of Technology, learning video game programming.
About the Site
Dream-Tide.net is my corner of the internet for showing of my various ventures in design and art. Registered under my father's name since March 2004, it has been mine to with what I wish. It has undergone several layouts, though most have been lost in many computer wipes.
This layout was created for the redesigning of my site for a Web Design Intensive taken at SFCC. It was my first time using Dreamweaver to create a webpage, and I found it much more helpful than I'd expected.