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Subject:New Design Extravaganza
Time:11:29 am
Recently I've been having a good old play with metallic pencils and it's been fun.

Here are the results of this play. These are much looser designs than I'm usually comfortable with letting out into the wild wild world, and I wouldn't usually, but I'm actually happy enough with these to let them out.

First up we have a scary mermaid - Sirenia. She's more likely to hang around in the deep trenches, than singing sailors onto the rocks (How amateur!) but if you're in the deep waters she might talk to you of the kraken and the anglerfish, and the secret battle of giant squid and whale. There'll be a price to pay, of course. There always is.

Then we have a dancing centauress. No, she's not a Sagittari-ess (it's a pun, guys) as she doesn't have a bow and arrow.

Then I had fun drawing Breng from the King of the Copper Mountains. Breng is a three headed dragon, and as I had forgotten his encounter with the witch at an early age you will see he doesn't have his trademark scars.  Mr Biegel doesn't describe anything much of Breng, except for his waving three necks, and his fiery eyes. I figured it was plausible for a dragon from the Copper Mountains to be copper coloured, as a sort of camouflage.

Then came time to draw pedanther 's prize for the not-Drabble competition last week. pedanther told me to choose something and as I was all fired up from drawing Breng and I knew he had also read the King of the Copper Mountains I did him a picture of Breng, in the Copper Stables, burning the dust and dirt of the day off his back, as described in the book. (so he can go to bed all nice and clean)

And now it's all up for you to see.

These were quite small images, but due to the forgiving nature of the media, they've blown up pretty well.
Remember, the little video cameras are not available outside the U.S, and also, if you want a closer look at any of the images, click on a product and then click on "View Larger" and then "Zoom in on Image".

Have a pleasant browse folks!

I wonder if I should put these up in the Zazzle shop as well? That would let people play around with customising backgrounds and so forth.
 
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[info]moonvoice
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Time:2009-07-01 04:03 am (UTC)
The dancing centauress is absolutely my favourite, stunning colours and sense of motion.

How are sales going on the CafePress site? What sells the best for you? Apparel or something else?
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[info]leecetheartist
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Time:2009-07-01 04:13 am (UTC)
They're not too bad. No change really, despite the economic downturn.

The last 90 days have been mostly a mix of dark apparel, mugs and sigg bottles.
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[info]moonvoice
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Time:2009-07-01 07:49 am (UTC)
Thank you! I've been thinking about how to get my artwork 'out there' lately, and while I might have to tweak some of my designs, or do new ones, for apparel and such... I've been wondering if it might be more appealing than straight originals.
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[info]leecetheartist
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Time:2009-07-02 04:09 am (UTC)
The gotcha is that they will pay you by sending a cheque, in American currency. Your bank will most likely charge you for changing it to Australian.

Your designs as they stand won't need much tweaking, if any. Cleaning the edges maybe but that's simple enough digitally.

You might look at Zazzle too. They don't charge and there's a lot of customisation that your customers can do.

Cafe Press doesn't charge for a basic shop. You can open as many of them as you like. It's worth while to open one up and see how it feels for you.

Square designs fit very nicely on the Keepsake boxes and tiles and framed tiles. Yours would be awesome.

There are other sites but I haven't looked at them too closely - I'll let you know if I happen onto one that seems good, I just have not had the time, and I've got a lot of hours invested in the other two.

The cost for a premium store is $59.95USD for a full year, which is over all the cheapest option.

If you need any advice on shop wrangling, feel free to Skype me.
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[info]murasaki_1966
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Time:2009-07-01 12:12 pm (UTC)
I like those....

Glad to hear that some one had read King of the Copper Mountains
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[info]leecetheartist
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Time:2009-07-02 04:09 am (UTC)
A few people came to my reading of it at Swancon which was nice.
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