Tumblr

To get more people seeing my work I joined Tumblr, the good thing about tumblr is that I can put up my art work and other people can re blog it and therefore spend my work around and also I have linked all my images to my blog so more people can look at my entire work. Another thing is that I can re blog other people's stuff so I've been reblogging other people's work on the course (as you can see I've recently reblogged Kelly Walton's work) so that we can all help one another spend our work around.

Blog

I made benchallen.blogspot.com in the second year and therefore the whole thing seemed a bit dated with my old business card image as the banner and the colour scheme was black and white to tie in with the flash catalyst website I made in second year too. Firstly I changed the colour scheme to a nautical blue so that it worked with the work I was putting on the blog. Then to tie in with the new identity/ logo I made a new banner.

Though I didn't really like this banner for I had to use two teeth to fill the space and also because the background is white it didn't fit in with the layout very well.

 

The banner I tried next was to just have the tooth by itself with the same coloured background as the blog so it looks like it's just there by itself, the minimalist look. Though you couldn't see the tooth very well so I put a rough white border around it though it still wasn't working as a blog banner. 

  

The final banner I came up with was the tooth with the writing underneath (which I changed from black to white so it's more legible) on the same colour background as the blog, which I think works perfectly. 

 

Website

Researching into successful up and coming contemporary illustrators I can see and was majorly advised to make a cargo collective website. It did mean code had to be worked out to sort of the orientation of the work but because so many people have a cargo website most questions are answered and also I had help from Laura Jayne Weeks for she has already made hers and it look really good.

I was really pleased with how my website looks though there are still pieces of work that need to be uploaded and the logo added.