Plans for Summer

In the summer, I aim to get all of my professional social media accounts synced - using the same icon and making sure that the name is consistent through all of them so that I am easier to find. I already have my Tumblr set to post to Twitter whenever I make a new post, which will make it easier to share my work on Twitter. I will be posting any Behance updates on my Tumblr as well, so that all of my accounts will be notified.

I aim to complete at least 3 designs that are of printable quality to start off a RedBubble shop which I will then promote across all of my other social networks. I don't really expect to make much money off of this but I feel like tit could be a good start for figuring out what people want to buy and keeping my work looking new.

I will definitely be making more pieces for my portfolio, showing more detail about my characters and making them more lifelike. I will also try out the task from the Chris Oatley tips and design a character via their room, which I might consider trying to animate. It would be fun to create some sort of story and setting and do a whole selection of vis dev work for that, to change my portfolio into a visual development one rather than character design, to keep my option more open. I would also like to try Flash again if I have time and try to animate in that - I feel like it might work more for my designs and I might enjoy it more than working in Photoshop. I didn't really decide if I liked Flash or not in first year since we only animated a ball and pendulum' characters will be a lot harder to animate in that, but I'm confident that I could give it a good go.

I will also look at ways of making my Tumblr more interesting - I feel like the Twitter widget at the top of the page takes up too much space, especially as it takes so long to load, so I would like to find a way to move that to the side with it still being readable.