There’s a longer post about my current situation but I know TL;DR is real so I’ll do the good thing first: I’ve designed a notepad! I’ll be making the sample/test/prototype this week as I’m waiting for some supplies to get here.
It’s a design that I basically made for myself, as I love wrestling AND penguins. I might do some variants with some other cute animals like kitties or frogs or something. If it comes out the way I hope, I’ll have it listed this weekend.
I’ve been in a weird headspace. Losing my job and having to move in with my mom was not on the list of things I expected to happen. But that’s life.
I found a job, I’ve been hired to be a “rewind operator” at a printing company. They print a lot of things but mostly it seems to be labels and packaging from small business labels to 100s of thousands of labels for big name brands. It’s a position I have no experience in, a fact I told the managers during my interview. But I also told them why I applied : I thought it sounded interesting, it’s a pretty stable industry, it provides a steady work schedule (no on call shit) and it would be much less emotionally taxing than my previous position. I said “the closest thing to experience I have is that I print and cut my own little craft stuff at home.”
Well, I guess they liked my attitude or my candor or both, cuz they offered me the position. I start next week.
This lack of direction and work and purpose or whatever has been the worst. I’ve felt like I’ve been just floating in jello. I’ve been trying to do some designing but I don’t have my own space to really do it the way I’ve been used to.
Despite that, I’ve created a bunch of new designs for stickers, buttons and keychains. Not just wrestling related either. I’ll be posting those later when I get out of my funk.
How many times can I stitch variations on colour wheels? At least a few more, anyway.
This is the second piece I've done that blends contrasting colours in blackwork, and I'm learning to trust the process. In both cases, it looked horribly messy while I was stitching, but then when it was finished and I could step back to look at it, I could finally see the gradient effect I was going for.
I figured if Chaos Emeralds are able to change one's fur color and eye color, then surely they could transform their clothes too! Went with a goddess/magical girl/bride motif.
I had been meaning to draw this for years, but @askisabellasparkes question gave me the perfect opportunity to fully design her. Thanks for the question!