"Zazzlove" - November

I know it looks like I just did a Zazzlove post, but it was from before the blog's "remodel" and it's end of the month so I wanted to give out some more love.  Also because it's the day after Thanksgiving, I am now in Christmas mode and 'tis the season to be jolly so I will be giving some love to more than one Zazzle artist on this post.

"Zazzlove"

I'm going to do something new on the blog and I'm calling it "Zazzlove". (Yes, I know...I'm not very creative when it comes to names.)  It’s where I’ll do a search on Zazzle for something I think is cute and shown it some “Zazzlove” here.  Remember that post where I shared what I came up with for a Christmas gift?  Well, I did a search on Zazzle for more robots and came up with some gifts that were kind of cute.  Then I did a search for "cupcakes" (another thing I enjoy making) and got more cute gifts.  But, then I thought of combining searches and ran across this:

New on Sellfy

Do you know about NaNoWriMo and Camp NaNoWriMo?  I've been wanting to do it for a long time, but as you can tell by my other posts, I have time problems.  LOL  Anyways, last year, I wanted to participate in the April session of Camp, but though I sat down to write on a couple of days, I couldn't finish the month.  I even made a desktop wallpaper calendar for the month.  Every time the laptop went on I would see it and I would try to carve out some time to sit and write.  When the next day came and I turned on the laptop, I saw how many words I missed the day before and it kind of sucked.  I made the calendar like if it was one of those wooden message boards one would see at a summer camp. It DID motivate me, but it's just the whole time issue.  I admire so much those writers who take care of a family and a home and still have time to write.  I must admit...I'm kind of jealous.  Anywayyys...

Jack & Justine So Far

Another quick post.  The laptop still isn't working right but I was able to work a little on Jack & Justine from the desktop (which is very slow).  I played around with the shading.  When I was halfway through I realized I wasn't sure if the light came from that angle since I haven't finished the background.  But, like always, I'll work around it.

Slight Progress on Jack & Justine

My partner's on vacation this week so it's going to be a busier than usual one, working at home and running errands.  Luckily, I was able to sit and get some background elements together just to see what they would look like.  I'm somewhat satisfied with how it's coming along.  I like having Jack the same height as the flower in the picture.  I have to see how Justine looks in it because she will be taller than him and I don't know if she'll look too tall next to the flowers.  If that happens I may have to shrink Jack just a little.

Jack & Justine

After hours of trying out different body parts on Jack & Justine, I ended up using the same ones I shared with you before.  At the moment, I am not too worried about the arms because the project consists of different images in which the arms will be in different positions.  I settled on some colors, but I'm not sure if I'll be keeping them.  I have to add shading and details to the images so once I do that, I can decide if I'm going to keep the colors I chose after all.

My New Friends, J & J

On my Weekend Update post I mentioned a new graphic design project I wanted to work on.  I was finally able to put my characters together.  It gave me a little bit of work trying to find clothing I liked for the male character, but so far this is what I have. I'm not really quite sure if this is going to be the end result.  I'm also not quite sure about the colors I'll be using.  But I really like the way they came out. These are Jack and Justine:

The Last Design I Did

I wanted to share with you the last graphic design that I made.  It was originally supposed to be a Christmas gift.  I wanted something with robots because the recipient just LOVES robots.  At first I wanted to go with a retro classic looking robot like this one:

(get this greeting or other gifts from Zazzle!)

But, I wanted the design to be a simple design because I wasn't sure what the final product was going to be.  It had to be large enough that I could put in onto a pillow, but simple enough that if it went on a keychain, you could still make out the design.

Finally!

Yay!!  I was finally able to get my design into Cafepress.  It WAS a browser thing after all.  I don't know about me and technology.  It seems to have it out for me.  Anyways, I was able to create one of those sticky note cubes and it came out sort of cute.  Of course, I have to give it time to "bake" and then see how I feel about it.

New Fairy & WIPs

I finally gave my brunette fairies a background: a simple one so as to not distract from them.  I wanted to add them to Cafepress, but for some reason I am having trouble with their designer.  At first I thought it was my browser, but I tried with a different one and it just keeps freezing up on me.  I still want to stay with Zazzle, but I noticed Cafepress offers a lot of items so I want to try out with them also.  But, if I keep having the same problem, I’m not going to even bother anymore.  I’m going to give it one more try.  As I mentioned before, besides this digital design thing I like to do, I also like working with my hands.  Jewelry-making is one of the things I’ve been doing for a while.  (I think I may have mentioned it in one of the older posts from when I REALLY tried doing this thing.)

Here We Go Again

That bundle of joy wasn’t so easy after all…at least, not in the beginning.  But I don’t call it “giving up”…I call it “putting things on pause”.

After a very, VERY long time I've decided to try and continue blogging.  It's hard, but I really want to take some time from my day to do it.  I would love NE-Things to finally be established more than what I've done as far as graphic design (that still makes me giggle) and making myself take out some time from each day is a good way to start.  It's a little hard with a bundle of joy that seems to ADORE his mommy, but I believe I can do it.  A little while ago, I had some conversations with a couple of friends that showed me they believed I could do it, too.

New Designs - Fairies!

I've been working on some new designs for Zazzle.  I wanted to do something with fairies which I love.  I used an awesome design book and learned shading and highlighting techniques which I hadn't used before.  It took me quite a while in the beginning but as I kept practicing, I got the hang of it.

As you can see, they're different types of fairies.