Today I’m making the first steps towards spreading my income streams (careful now). I’ve set up stores on Spreadshirt and Zazzle and created a design and some products using a robot I drew over the Christmas break.

Spreadshirt has so far proved to be the easiest to use with helpful documentation, clearly defined guidlines and flexible setup. Zazzle is a little more confusing at first, but the ability to bulk create a whole bunch of products in one go (and no apparent limits on number of designs) makes it pretty attractive.

The stores are here: Zazzle and Spreadshirt

Here’s the robot:

Who doesn’t need a child’s t-shirt with a slightly worrying robot on the front?

Hello! Still alive (just). Here’s the Thank You card I designed to send out to friends and relatives to thank them for our son’s Christmas presents. Yes it took two months, that’s how pant-shittingly busy I’ve been. Done in a bit of a rush (in tiny patches over the last couple of months). Would like to work on some more but want to send it out now. Hoping to do an illustration a week from now forward.

Quick spaceship. I long for the day I can make a living drawing spaceships, robots and ducks. AND NOTHING ELSE. Done in illustrator, spaceship is for a specific project but I wanged it on a background as liked it enough to stick it on the web.

I drew this instead of working on my new website. My new website may take a while. Inspired by some Tudor designs I was looking at (for my website design).

Work in progress for the new Shinytastic site.  Definitely needs some robots and rabbits adding.

Rough design submitted for an invite to a local formal event.

We did this nearly a year ago then sat on it for some reason. Can’t remember why so it’s probably not so important. Nick (Reincarnationfish) wrote an album for February Album Writing Month last year and asked me create the designs for it. Album is called ‘Science Ninja Team Go’ so using the law of ‘most obvious illustration possible’ I drew ninjas in lab coats. I think this was my first illustration using paper and pencils, everything previous had been photo-montages or basic shapes. Final version was traced (by hand) in illustrator and coloured/composited in photoshop. Wish I hadn’t left it so long to upload, I think my illustrator skills are much improved since then but I’m still happy with the end result.

Flickr set which also includes a couple of wallpapers. The most important thing is the album itself which you can download for free here: Reincarnationfish – Science Ninja Team Go. It’s a bit of a departure from Reincarnationfish’s usual indietronica, more of an ambient/IDM slant. It’s also awesome. Download it and tell him how good it is, he might make some more.

Bit of a rough couple of weeks at work so this took two weeks longer than intended (to find the time). Named after the Reincarnationfish song (of the same name). Seem to be finding song names and lyrics (especially Rfish’s) a good source of inspiration at the moment.

Same time again next week in three weeks. xx

Hand drawn, scanned, traced in illustrator. Textures mostly mine with one Machine Wash texture.

Trying to complete at least one self-initiated piece a week, this took two but I blame illness. Started the next one last night.

Started a new Flickr set for illustrations.

Happy Saturday.

Trying to do more unplanned/self initiated stuff. This was  a quick pic using a photo of the blackbird that sits outside my office window.