Elm illustration to add to break up the text of the readme

[Cleop]

I've created this illustration for the Elm readme, perhaps for the 'what?' section.

I wasn't sure what text was best to put into the speech and so am happy to change this, but I was wondering if anyone else had any thoughts?

Also, I don't know if the speech should replace some other text or be in conjunction with it?

[nelsonic]

@Cleop ❤️ that you've opened this! 🎉

As an MVP I'd be happy to Ship it! however idea raises more questions than it answers:

• Should the "person" giving the tips be female or non-binary to encourage inclusiveness?
  • Could the color scheme be @dwyl "teal" and grey like the dwyl.com website?
• Should the speech bubble be a "standard" size/shape so that it can be re-used for different "tips"?
• Should the speech bubble go left or right? (in comic drawing a left-facing speech bubble denotes a "reply" to a previous statement/question. given that this is an answer to the question: "What is Elm" this could be fine.)
• Font: (cursive) handwriting is nice but it's slower to read. (that might be fine, but it's not often used in "comics"...)

[Cleop]

Thanks :sparkles: @nelsonic for the feedback, and @iteles who I spoke to here. Your thoughts were both pretty similar and correspond with some of my own.

• I've actually made a few of these characters but want to do more so that I can build out a wider set of people/identities. The ones I've made so far have all been a different random bright colour but I'm happy to start by using the dwyl teal for some consistency.

• So far I've filled the speech bubbles with handwritten text as it's what been available to me whilst drawing but I agree that text is easier to read and also can sometimes fit more in. I hadn't thought so much about a standard size before but it's a good point.

• I like your point about a left/right facing bubble's message. I have also drawn ones in the other direction so again, perhaps we could tailor these to the situation. It's also pretty easy to 'flip' designs in procreate so I could reverse the image too for ones that we want to change.

• These are some other ones I've done....note I didn't intentionally make the woman the confused one but I happened to draw this character and then add the caption afterwards. For that idea I was thinking of adding a box for suggesting opening a new issue when you have a question.

So I think these could be useable but I agree we want to create an encouraging environment for discussion not 'type casting' people by gender etc. into certain roles. So if I keep going with feedback perhaps I can create a range from which we can pick and choose.

[iteles]

@Cleop As well as the above, I really like your idea of taking something that we find ourselves often repeating (like, as you pointed out, our constant requests to open issues) that we can use as a consistent reminder across repos 🙌

[Cleop]

Perhaps this is another one to add to the collection:

[YvesMuyaBenda]

@Cleop Is that a self-portrait???

[Cleop]

@YvesMuyaBenda - Haha not intentionally but perhaps subconsciously! I can see what you mean!