Elephant Town website (shh!) (Patreon)

I've been working with Hiveworks to make a beautiful dedicated website for Elephant Town and I'm getting hyped about it! 

Kevin, my designer, has been outrageously personable and thoughtful about the process, letting me nitpick things like "can we lighten the purple color by 3 levels" and other ridiculous shit that resembles my painfully particular coloring process.

I added a bit of pink to the header image, which was originally all monochrome, and it's warmed up the look considerably: 

(Though I love that cat, I also changed my Patreon avatar back to my little watercolored face, just to keep things consistent across platforms.)

As much as I liked the whisper-like cloud quality of the original title, Kevin pointed out that colorblind people will see absolutely nothing there if I keep the contrast that low. Things I would've never considered!

It's also nice to have an accent color to pep up the site design a bit. Who knew my childhood nemesis, pink, would be the color I used the most often throughout my various comics' branding.

In order to make the header image at the top span wide enough to have it fade into that dark gradient on either side, I needed to extend what I had originally, which was a bit of a headache since it was drawn in ink on paper. But it's nice to have a final image to use for the future. Here's what the cropped image looks like:

... and the whole entire thing:

(If you're local, some of this will look familiar, but some of it has been fabricated, like the far left house being the end of the block - there are at least one or two more houses before Shoe Lane!)

I had the thought that maybe I should ask Kevin if we can change the title & hover button color to match the chapter you're reading...

... but that might be a bit Extra of me. ;) 

Did you notice that the color of the linework changes depending on which character we're visiting? Points if you picked up on that (lookin at you, Lucy B)!

More sneak peeks on the way as we build this thing! Thanks for letting me share my glee with someone in relative secrecy. :)