Website Update

Good day to you, people of blogger land. I have been slowly making various transitions. One of them is that you can now find me on Tumblr, where it turns out it's much easier and faster to get an audience. That doesn't mean I won't be posting here at all, in fact I tend to write a bit more info on my blogger entries as there is the space to do so.

I've also just updated my main website, www.joannemclelland.co.uk, to be a bit more cross platform friendly. It's made using a website maker, which was a slight pride hit as over the years I've taught myself a bit of html and css for the purpose of making my website.
My main problem was always updating image galleries. The simple viewer I had been using was a pain to go all the way back through and re-export. And also, seeing as I'm never really planning on being a web designer, my time is probably better spent drawing and animating.

So there you have it. A blog entirely without pictures, although I'll try to put something up later.

Koala cuteness

Designed a couple of vector poses for a competition, but then decided he was uber cute and I was going to do some more drawings for fun.

Illustration Friday 'Zodiac'

Here's my first go at the theme, obvs went for my star sign. Mixed poppy colours with a sort of Greek pottery theme. Might have another go on a more general 'Zodiac' theme later in the week but I'm happy with this for now.

Character Designs

I went along to a talk last night where they were asking for pitches for character driven animations. I felt a bit lost at the time, as the guys were right there and I had not an idea in my brain. So, slightly hungover today, sat and squeezed my eyes shut until I began thinking of things. Doodled up these two, slapped a bit of colour on, to satisfy my green hair fetish.

It's business time

Decided to try do some characters. I had little conversations with each of these guys as I was drawing them. I told the guy on the bottom left he needed to buy a bigger collar size, he wasn't fooling anyone and it was probably uncomfortable. I tried to get away from the guy on the bottom right as fast as possible.

Pushed the colours because brighter is better.

Totoro

Because he's guaranteed to brighten your day.

Yuki-onna

Been trying to design the 'snow demon/witch' for the comic. I really love the Heian era court costume that involves a lot of layers, but it's sort of made her more classy than scary. But then, she's also supposed to be 'bewitching' so maybe not too scary? I dunno.