How the avatar came about started with some doodles. I wanted to make a happy character, one who could be a little mischievous and had a curious attitude. So, those thoughts were in my mind as I started sketching.
I originally used Visio to render the sketches to a vectored VND image file. Visio really is a good drawing program, but I have increasingly been using Inkscape and working in SVG – a much friendlier format for the web.
For some reason I thought to scan in the original sketches and recently found the file while going through things on one of my backup drives.