Hello, so here it is. A new site. Finally. I should have had a “proper” site up and running months and months ago but couldn’t squeeze the time in to do it. Anyway, that doesn’t matter now.
If it wasn’t already obvious, the site is built around a blog but with some extras to keep you interested – such as the Gallery (where you can see my art), Extras (where you can find out about some of the other things I’ve been known to do), Downloads (grab yerself some stuff!) and…well that’s it at the moment, but there’s a couple of other things to come along in the next few months. Shhh, I didn’t tell you.
The blog’s a bit thin on the ground at the moment (well this is day one, what do you expect – I didn’t just want to fill it with wibble) but I am determined to write regularly, and hopefully coherently. After using Twitter for a while sentences over 140 characters really make me sweat though, so no promises 
I guess I should explain a little about how the site was put together. I now understand why the majority of blog owners pick off the shelf themes for their blogs, even if they’re designers – Wordpress’ templating system is ‘orrible. Maybe it’s just me but it’s like pulling teeth 
But the design itself was quite nice to put together – I drew everything you see, scanned it, turned it into vectors and played around with it in Illustrator from which everything was exported for final cutting etc. in Photoshop.
For the doodles I used black Posca markers on a Copic marker pad which ended up giving nice sharp results (sharper than using a Copic on a Copic marker pad!) There was quite a lot of re-drawing that had to happen (especially with the handwritten titles, each time I decided to change the wording I felt the need to rewrite them all so they were consistent – it’s amazing how much my handwriting changes between “takes”). I think it’s turned out well – it’s not where I was aiming when I started but I appear to have got a fortuitous ricochet
Anyway, more to come soon I promise.
Tags: design, oooh shiny, templates, wordpress
Apparently it took, but it’s beautiful!
The colors, the clear navigation works! ALL great!
Congratulations! Makes you want to come back more often!
Hello Psonha! Haven’t seen you at deviantArt for a long time, nice to hear from you
Glad you like it, I’ll be messing with it some more and putting together some other parts soon-ish (including a store if all goes well). Hopefully it will all happen before Christmas, but I’ve got to start and finish four more canvases for display in a cafe that’s asked me to put up my work for a month or so at the start of November so I’m flat out until then.
The new site looks absolutely amazing – really coherent and all very much to your personal style, which is so recognisable.
Looking forward to your new store if things go the right way for you.
best wishes,
Mimi x
Hi Mimi, thank you for stopping by
I worked through three different designs before I got one I was happy with, trying to find something that felt like “me”. The only thing that was set was the colour – I have a soft sport for blue 