Land of Painted Sky http://www.landofpaintedsky.com/blog Illustration and Web design in the land of painted sky Thu, 14 Jan 2010 10:03:17 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Sleepy Land of Painted Sky http://www.landofpaintedsky.com/blog/2010/01/14/sleepy-land-of-painted-sky/ http://www.landofpaintedsky.com/blog/2010/01/14/sleepy-land-of-painted-sky/#comments Thu, 14 Jan 2010 10:03:17 +0000 sarah http://www.landofpaintedsky.com/blog/?p=304 I have kind of forgotten about this website because I have been posting all my new posts on the new website. So keep an eye out for the  new land of painted sky which is coming soon, there will be loads of new posts to read and a (hopefully) better design. :)

In the meantime check out Thomas Puskailer’s website, one of my recent web designs and developments.

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Here is a You Tube video for all the maccies out there. Apparently msn video deliberately don’t support macs… what a surprise! lol.

I did the concepts, backgrounds, storyboards, storylines and character designs.

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And the toy is still in development :)

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And to think it all started with a crappy desktop background I made in my lunch hour over 3 years ago! lol.

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Its mainly about me getting over my fear of colour. For years I have been blacky and whitey thing, and this year I seem to have gone a bit mad for colour… as you can tell by the 2008 web design!

Anyway, here they are :) :

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So Land of Painted Sky will probably go into sleepy time for a little while, because all of my drawing time is going into this project.. and when its all done I’ll post it all up here for you guys to see.

]]> http://www.landofpaintedsky.com/blog/2008/08/28/sleepy-time/feed/ 0 Argh! Such a long time…. http://www.landofpaintedsky.com/blog/2008/07/24/argh-such-a-long-time/ http://www.landofpaintedsky.com/blog/2008/07/24/argh-such-a-long-time/#comments Thu, 24 Jul 2008 12:02:02 +0000 sarah http://www.landofpaintedsky.com/blog/?p=193 Its been ages and ages since I last posted! I have done stuff though!

Look! I finally finished that christmas card…. in June.

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And I made this which started as a plant… ( I want to do a bit more work on the background tho, so view it as a work in progress :) )

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And I have also got at least 3 websites live ( designed and built :) ) since I last spoke to you: http://www.eastbourneairshow.co.uk, http://www.midwalesholidays.co.uk and http://www.visitcambridgeshire.org

So I’ve been doing loads of stuff :D AND I’ve been constantly fiddling with land of painted sky, working on some game ideas and characters and we’ve even got started on the molds for atomic bunny the toy! I can’t wait to start selling some on here. I hope you all want your very own to look after and love! lol.

On a more personal note I went to Latitude Festival at the weekend. I am desperately trying to cling on to the memories of what was an amazing weekend! I saw so many amazing things, met some really cool people and just generally had a fantastic time!

I promise from now on I will try and post more often and get back on top of this…. I’ll get that home page finished next week too! :D

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As you can probably tell, I use wordpress to make my website. And this new design is more than just a pretty reskin, I built my own theme for this. It is fully widgetised, has multiple templates, is ajaxed and gravatared up.  I am even giving the content a bit of an overhaul over the next few weeks! So come and see Land of Painted Sky again soon, who knows what I might do to it? lol, not me. I’ve changed my mind a million times on this one. I’m my own worst client!

Because of this redesign, and the fact I kept changing my mind and losing confidence in the designs that I made I ignored the live site for a little while, so there will definitely be new pictures to upload over the next week as well!

Anyway, Let me know what you think :)

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I came into work this morning, to have this set as my desktop background! Its great! I love it! :D Thanks Des!

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