Monday, December 21, 2009
My favorite photo
Here is a picture that I absolutely love and was not even expecting to look good. I had to photograph my images for a power point presentation and the end of the shoot I set up the characters for a few fun pictures and this is one of them.
New Characters
These are characters that I designed a few years ago but I really enjoy these critters. My friend
Michael was kind enough to do the photography for me. He has a great space with amazing natural light.
As for China things are on hold right now. The 2 designs that I sent to my broker are finished but I am still unhappy with the color choice for the bat character. The color is to dark and does not match the fabric sample that I sent her. I told her that I understand that the factory will not be able to possibly find the exact match but they need to get close. The samples that were provided to me were either to dark or to light. In the end I went with a darker color. The other design came out just fine as far as I can see. It might look different once I see it in person but from all the j-pegs and I mean many j-pegs images the design looks just like my original. They even matched up the color.
Well I hope you enjoy these images.
Chow
Sunday, November 1, 2009
New Character
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
Extreme China close up
Here are a few pictures that my broker from China sent. I asked her to send me pictures of certain details of the animals--- like the sewing around the mouth and the entire body, plus the eyes. I have had some problems when it comes to the factory cutting out the pieces for the eyes of the orange character plus the photos that she was sending me were way to bright. So this is what she sent me.
Saturday, October 17, 2009
Items for sale at Shoparooni
Wednesday, October 14, 2009
Jamal and Evil Wood
These are two characters that I did about 2 years ago. I still want to go back and work on Evil Wood character. I have a few masked evil characters that I have drawn that I know would be really funny.
As for Jamal -------------------When I lived on Hillcrest Street in Cleveland Heights he was a boy who lived next to us and he always wanted to play football. So Jamal and which seemed like every child on the entire street would show up on my porch and want to play.
Bald Spaceman
I just love to draw bald characters. I am in the process of learning how to use my drawing tablet.
I had more drawings but I lost my flash drive.
BALD IS THE NEW SEXY
Labels: plush, life, work, animals, family, art
Art
Tuesday, October 13, 2009
Character development
Here are a few pictures of characters that I am working on. I try and take a picture of the character before I stuff it.
Labels: plush, life, work, animals, family, art
character development
China Prototype
Here is a photo taken by my broker of what the factory had made. The color is darker than I want. I am still working with them on it. I had to have the factory remake the character at least 5 times. You should have seen some of the samples they sent me---- by e-mail. They looked like either someone was blind or they decided themselves on how they wanted to make it. So as I always tell her Please, Please, Please have the factory follow the template that I have sent you. I send the factory a template for every piece that needs to be made, plus the original. So far this has been the hardest part of working with someone overseas. I wish I could fly their but that is not going to happen. Most of our conversations happen by e-mail and I must say that they have been very rough at times. There is a language problem. Something which would take a second to tell someone takes forever with my broker. I must and I mean must have patience. Lately I have been doing skype video conference calls with the broker because for whatever the reason something is getting lost in translation and I still have to have Sam with me when I talk to her. I thought that I was making myself clear but I guess that I was not. I have to talk really slow and sometimes I just do not know if she just understood what I just said to her.
Pattern template
This is a basic pattern that I use to trace on to fabric. I make the template out of a heavy weight artist paper.
Labels: plush, life, work, animals, family, art
character development
China Prototype next to the original
Here is a picture sent by my broker from China. The factory did a good job matching the original. I am having a hard time with the company finding the same color that I made the original.
Patterns
Here are a few examples of how I make color copies of each part of the character. I will make a copy of the eye and all of the parts. Then I will take the eye apart and make a copy of it. Then I will put color samples on each page. I do this so that the factory has the color sample plus a break down of the parts.
Labels: plush, life, work, animals, family, art
character development,
prototype
Sample Character
After I decide what I want the character to look like I then will make a small felt piece. I will also work out other types of details that I need to do. The mouth was a issue that I had to work out.
Labels: plush, life, work, animals, family, art
character development
Character development
Here are a few examples of how I work on designing a new character. I usually draw about 50-100 quick little drawings to stimulate my mind.
Labels: plush, life, work, animals, family, art
character development
Monday, October 5, 2009
Custom Dunny
- Here are 2 pics of a Dunny that I customized for a show at Shoparooni last year. Everything is made of felt. He looks pretty funny.
Labels: plush, life, work, animals, family, art
Misc. Projects
Saturday, September 26, 2009
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