My spaceship is full of art
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Madeline
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Re: My spaceship is full of art
These plushies are all so cute. Excellent work!
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Re: My spaceship is full of art
Thanks, Madeline!
It's been a while since I've posted. I'm still waiting for my labels to come; taking a biiit longer than I thought (order confirmation had it as around April 17th, but the status on the website says that it shipped yesterday ), so I haven't really finished anything on that front.
Except for this squirrel!
I wanted to see if I could alter the tiny Pikachu pattern I made into... something more like a sitting squirrel or rabbit. Well, or just make the Pikachu look nicer. Fun with darts, at any rate.
A few weeks back, my daughter insisted I sketch out another outline for her to watercolor-- Pikachu riding on a unicorn. I scanned it in before she colored it in so that I could color it in Photoshop, as seen below.
& both of the kids decided they had to watercolor something the other day when I got my supplies out. The one 2 year old did the washes on the back, while the 4 year old did a little bit of work & then told me to draw Pikachu looking at the river. Then a pink llama that was throwing hail at Pikachu.
It's been a while since I've posted. I'm still waiting for my labels to come; taking a biiit longer than I thought (order confirmation had it as around April 17th, but the status on the website says that it shipped yesterday ), so I haven't really finished anything on that front.
Except for this squirrel!
I wanted to see if I could alter the tiny Pikachu pattern I made into... something more like a sitting squirrel or rabbit. Well, or just make the Pikachu look nicer. Fun with darts, at any rate.
A few weeks back, my daughter insisted I sketch out another outline for her to watercolor-- Pikachu riding on a unicorn. I scanned it in before she colored it in so that I could color it in Photoshop, as seen below.
& both of the kids decided they had to watercolor something the other day when I got my supplies out. The one 2 year old did the washes on the back, while the 4 year old did a little bit of work & then told me to draw Pikachu looking at the river. Then a pink llama that was throwing hail at Pikachu.
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Madeline
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Re: My spaceship is full of art
I love that drawing! And the squirrel is super cute.
Hopefully you’ve gotten your tags by now, or will get them soon.
Hopefully you’ve gotten your tags by now, or will get them soon.
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Re: My spaceship is full of art
Tags have come! Well, I got them a day or two after my last post, but I haven't quite got the ball rolling enough to open shop yet. I have sewn tags onto all of my for-sale premade plushies, and made a few with them sewn into the seams, but I still need to apply for a business license.
I have a goal this year of doing a monthly art/craft giveaway, which so far has been working all right. I've just kept it on my personal facebook page for now, but I might change that up in the future. I did a plush for Jan-April, but this month figured I'd do an art request, in case people were interested in that. Not much of a response, really, which is kind of disappointing. But one of them was to do something related to MLP for my niece. Her favorite pony is Pinkie Pie, & there's that whole Mer-May thing going on (like Ink-tober, but with mermaids), so I did the only natural thing:
I tried to make a magical giraffe-kirin by crafting some curvy horns and elongating the chibi legs from my other pattern.
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I've been thinking about making patterns to sell instead of just finished plushies. However, since I know that it will be a lot of work to make a decent pattern/instructions, I figured I should test a few patterns from other successful plush/pattern makers. I already have a book about how to design your own plushies- it contains a few different tutorial projects as well, but I didn't think much of the instructions or layout-- mostly from an editorial standpoint instead of a technical one. So these next plushies I made from following some free patterns by Choly Knight (yes, as far as I can tell that is her real name).
This is CK's Love Dragon plush. My daughter wanted a yellow one with wings, so I made it Fluttershy-esque.
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& since my 2 year old keeps turning every cooking utensil into a sword, I figured I should save my sanity and spare both kids a few bruises by sewing these swords (using CK's Sting Plush pattern):
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I have a goal this year of doing a monthly art/craft giveaway, which so far has been working all right. I've just kept it on my personal facebook page for now, but I might change that up in the future. I did a plush for Jan-April, but this month figured I'd do an art request, in case people were interested in that. Not much of a response, really, which is kind of disappointing. But one of them was to do something related to MLP for my niece. Her favorite pony is Pinkie Pie, & there's that whole Mer-May thing going on (like Ink-tober, but with mermaids), so I did the only natural thing:
I tried to make a magical giraffe-kirin by crafting some curvy horns and elongating the chibi legs from my other pattern.
Click for Fullsize
I've been thinking about making patterns to sell instead of just finished plushies. However, since I know that it will be a lot of work to make a decent pattern/instructions, I figured I should test a few patterns from other successful plush/pattern makers. I already have a book about how to design your own plushies- it contains a few different tutorial projects as well, but I didn't think much of the instructions or layout-- mostly from an editorial standpoint instead of a technical one. So these next plushies I made from following some free patterns by Choly Knight (yes, as far as I can tell that is her real name).
This is CK's Love Dragon plush. My daughter wanted a yellow one with wings, so I made it Fluttershy-esque.
Click for Fullsize
Click for Fullsize
& since my 2 year old keeps turning every cooking utensil into a sword, I figured I should save my sanity and spare both kids a few bruises by sewing these swords (using CK's Sting Plush pattern):
Click for Fullsize
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Re: My spaceship is full of art
I'd like to bump this thread to showcase all of the amazing stuff my wife has made in the last 6 months or so and has shown to basically no one. She made all these by hand and she can make something for you too!
Twig
Ferret dragon
Custom design dragon
Lots of llamas
And their close cousins, giraffes
Tiny Totoro
Ladybug
Carly the bat
Sylveon!
Twig
Ferret dragon
Custom design dragon
Lots of llamas
And their close cousins, giraffes
Tiny Totoro
Ladybug
Carly the bat
Sylveon!
- Mr. Big
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Re: My spaceship is full of art
These are so cute! I especially love Twig from "Hilda"
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Those are adorable
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