As mentioned in my previous post, I give you:
I just received my first-ever order from Cafe Press - yes, I ordered something from my own Cafe Press store! I'd kinda wanted a Variants Mug ever since I'd put them in the shop, so I used my t-shirt sales money to reduce the price and gifted myself with one. My company is moving this summer, so it's a perfect excuse for a new mug, right? Right. Anyway, here's how it looks on the Cafe Press site:
And the physical product? It looks great! The lines are sharp, the colours are brilliant and true to the originals, and all with a nice, glossy finish! I'd put the artwork together for this mug from high-resolution scans of three original collages I'd done (and foolishly traded away) - three of my personal favourites of all the Variants - and it looks absolutely like I'd hoped.
Which reminds me, I really ought to upload them all somewhere, so they'd be available for people to see...
Anyway, the end reslt is this: Cafe Press stuff comes out really cool, in case you have ever wondered!
Slender-tailed Cloud Rat
(Phloeomys pallidus)
With a name like that, I couldn't resist. And for being "rats," they're actually kind of cute.
That is, if you don't think about their teeth...
I did the dog's paw, so I needed to do a cat's for symmetry. But this is the last of the experimentation with this particular batch of cardstock. It's just way too dark for me to work on comfortably.
I was inspired to do a dog's paw by the way-too-talented Juj of hey juj when she posted rock, paper, scissors on Flickr and asked "what's a dog's foot skeleton look like?" Naturally, I had to go look, and that just led down the slippery slope to drawing it.
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