Working on a New Site Graphic!

This is the best category for this as far as I can tell, but please feel free to let me know if this is better elsewhere!

Anyways, I’ve started work on a new graphic for my website! It’ll serve a similar function as a profile picture, and eventually replace the banner image I currently have. Should make things cleaner and look closer to how I want the site to look.

I thought it’d be fun to document my process here. So, here’s my concept sketches! I’ve already decided which one I want to finish and turn into the icon: the bottom left most one. It is a little busy, but I like how it shows my entire fursona and has him using all four of his arms for something. Plus, as a website “profile pic”, it’ll never be shrunk down small enough to where it’ll pose an issue, so… I think it’ll work!

There’s also some other random doodles thrown in lol, because of course there is. Though, one of them did give me a silly idea for the website… :3c

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I like the work so far! I think having a memorable favicon is useful for websites, they show up in more places than just the tab or title bar. Users will also see them in places like Firefox’s default page or if they save a link to a site on their phone’s home screen.

I have accounts on two different Mastodon servers and it bugs me that they both have the default Mastodon logo as their favicon so I manually gave them simple icons to differentiate them. Getting it set up properly makes a site feel more like your special place on the Internet.

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@Mr_Encyclopedia I will say, this is not for the favicon. This will go on the website itself.

I do have a custom favicon though! It’s a little squished, but no one has said anything about it so I don’t think anyone has noticed. Or minds lol.

(Edit: I swore I hit the right reply button but it’s not showing as a reply on my end xP sorry about that, I hope the @ works!)

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Fair enough, I guess I got thrown off by talk of the website “profile pic.” I look forward to seeing how this develops!

Shrunk down, favicon looks like a paw. Love the sketches. Nice work on character and execution :smiley:

Update: the icon is now finished :D I’ll be adding it to the site later. I think it has a little bit of everything wrapped in a good package, plus I can crop it down to just the face to use as an icon on places like the forums here.

Fun fact, I drew this with a mouse.

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