Widecombe fair - finalised characters

It looks like my design for Jan Stewer has been chosen for the Widecombe Fair film. The first one I drew was the most popular but she looked too young in it. Our course leader also like the hair on someone else's design so I had to incorporate that. The result now looks like this:

We have also decided on a design for Peter Gurney. We thought he should be a farmer and also not very smart. I based him on Stan Laurel because he just had the perfect face for the kind of character I wanted to go for and also because any excuse to bring Stan Laurel into anything is good. However I started out by giving him ridiculous body proportions for some reason. 

Clearly that body had to go but I liked the hair on the left and the costume on the right.

So this happened:

I think these proportions work a lot better and I also tried a version with a different costume:

 

Ascii loop

I made a little loop animation using one of my ascii images. This was my first time animating in Photoshop. I had so far always refused to do that because I am not a massive fan of using Photoshop in general but it turns out it wasn't so bad and actually the best way I could think of to do this animation.  Maybe I was just a bit prejudiced...
I will try to do something more elaborate with it later on but I think this works as a test to see what I can do with this image.

I think I want to make all the letters around the characters move around a bit more, so far I struggled to do that in a way that doesn't make it look like static on a TV.