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.