Welcometocat

Created an Octocat (she is the Welcometocat) to help welcome folks to GitHub. She was created for a fresh iteration of the welcome email you receive when signing up for GitHub.

She started with a concept that I had, and a super rough sketch, followed by a bit of fleshing out and a proof of concept. Joao Ribeiro, one of our actual expert animator/illustrators helped me tweak the the character sketch significantly, and I just re-illustrated it based on his sketch.

See attached file for process background.

And yes, we did this all in a GitHub issue. GitHub for design collaboration FTW. ⚡️