Instead of making business cards as contact cards this year I decided to print these neat little 2x2” stickers with my info on them instead. Like my last card design I decided to do alternate colours so I can ask people “what’s your favourite colour?” and hand them the right one- I love doing that! I like that people have the option to use it as a sticker or just keep it as an odd-sized business card.

Last time I designed business cards didn’t make any purple because I don’t like purple, but this time I decided to go ahead and do it so I don’t have to say “sorry, but I have pink!” (whether they ask for red or pink, they’re covered by the light red here) -afterall these are made for the benefit of other people, not for me. I printed sixty and now I need to cut them all out~ haha.

Because I finally drew a new portrait I decided to go ahead and make an icon version too- sans-personal info of course. I used the background colour from my current Twitter background because why not.

If you’re curious about the font or the icons resources, let me know!

I’ve posted these Vaguely Unromantic Fandom Valentines all over my social networking sites, but I kept the messages simple so the jokes could be the main focal point. But!- this is my artblog so I get to ramble on about making them now!

Moriarty was my first one and his took a very long time because I was out of practice with drawing. I had a hard time capturing his likeness in my simple little style, but I think I succeed in making him look somewhat recognisable. The “quote” I used is really what sells the character though, so I think I got off easy on that one! Drawing-wise, his is my favourite.

Watson was the last one I did, so his took the least amount of time since I had already established a style and process to finishing these quickly. The text for his was originally longer(!) and more awkward sounding, but I couldn’t fit it onto the card properly without messing up the composition, so I dialled it back. The most important part was the “platonic” statement anyway. Also, Martin Freeman- I can’t draw you with any other expression but grumpy-cat, what the heck?

Dean Winchester…ehhh I actually have only seen the first two episodes of SPN- and just a few days ago too- so I wanted to make one with my favourite brother, but I didn’t have much to work with so I used a situation from the pilot episode. It doesn’t look much like him, but I started to notice all the guys I picked to draw looked the same (I had originally planned a Shawn Spencer [Psych] one and a Neil Caffery [White Collar] one but they look too much alike!)

And finally, Ulfric Stormcloak, the number one person in Skyrim I love to hate! Except for the “mostly ego-fueled” part, the rest of the text are direct quotes from the man himself. I can’t imagine him being very romantic, ever- but his complete lack of compassion for anyone just makes him a more amusing character to me. Text-wise, his is my favourite!

(I’m not tagging this post with the characters names or series because I don’t want them to wind up mixed in with all the other fandom tags!)

Ice-cubecats! I wanted to do something cute and simple for my theme/identity this time. I’ve used ice-cubecats in my themes in the past but I’ve never painted one like this. I really enjoyed painting it! I was channelling a little bit of Elda The on this one for sure.

I think it looks best as a tiled pattern, but it didn’t work for the FB header so I changed it up a bit (I also made the background hue closer to blue so it would compliment FB’s colour scheme a bit better). Right now I’m using the tiled version for my Twitter and flavors.me themes.

Illustrations of the two cats that I’m living with right now, Sasha and Cinder. They’re sisters but they look nothing alike. A gift for the owner’s birthday.

The plan is to make them into pocket-cats. They’ll be printed onto semi-heavy stock at about business card size, laminated and then trimmed to look nice. When completed they will be the perfect size to fit in your wallet! The idea is to be able to take your kitties with you when you travel (and their owner travels a lot and she’s sometimes gone for a long time).

You will probably see more pocket-cats in the future. (=^◕ω◕^)