Filed under: Products | Tags: angel, blue, clouds, fly, heart, moopf, pink, red, soar, t-shirt, tee, tshirt
Around an hour ago my first screen printed tees arrived featuring my “Take Me Away” design. They look fantastic (my wife’s already stolen one for her own use!) I haven’t got around to taking “proper” shots of the t-shirts yet but will be doing in the next couple of days with our kind friend who’s offered to model for the photos. Until then, the picture on the right shows the t-shirts (click it for a bigger version).
The t-shirts Sky Blue ladies fitted t-shirts and they’re a heavier weight fabric. I have the following size available:
- Small – Dress size 8-10, chest size 38cm / 15in
- Medium – Dress size 10-12, chest size 41cm /16in
- Large – Dress size 12-14, chest size 43cm / 17in
- Extra Large – Dress size 14-16, chest size 45cm / 18in
Ethical and Environmentally Friendly!
I was determined to start as I mean to go on with t-shirts and looked high and low for a neat screen printing company that is not only ethical but environmentally friendly and hand prints the t-shirts. Fortunately, I found one and they’re helpful and knowledgeable to boot!
The t-shirts themselves are made of organic cotton (so no nasty pesticides) and the inks are waterbased. This means that there are no PVC or phthalates, CFC’s or HCFC’s, aromatic hydrocarbons, lead or other heavy metals in the inks and no solvents are required to clean the screen printing setup afterwards. There’s nothing toxic at all in these inks. Much better for everybody, including mother nature!
Buy One Today!
This first run is limited to 25 shirts only and there are still some available in all sizes. They are priced at £20.00 GBP ($40.00 USD) which I know is expensive but these are quality t-shirts made with nature in mind and they’re very limited! If you would like to purchase one just drop me an email at info@moopf.com telling me what size you would like. I’ll then email you back confirming if I’ve still got free stock available in that size and give you details required for payment. I can accept payment via. Paypal at present.
Shipping to the UK will be £1 GBP ($2 USD) per t-shirt and for elsewhere it will be £2.50 GBP ($5 USD) per t-shirt.
Filed under: General | Tags: custom, jamungo, kidrobot, mini, munny, posca, sqwert, toy, vinyl
I’ve been meaning to get some blank vinyl toys for a while now to customise them and finally ordered some early last week. Many companies sell these vinyl toys/collectables and some, including kidrobot, sell blank versions for you to customise yourself. kidrobot’s toys include the mini Munnys (the two on the outside in the picture opposite). I also got a Jamungo Sqwert (that’s the one in the middle).
Yesterday I completed my first munny (see the picture opposite – click on it to see it bigger at Flickr.) I painted it with Uni Posca markers and then finished it with clear acrylic spray to give it a nice, glossy look. Each of the munnys come with a mystery accessory and “Seb” (as I’ve called him) comes with a funky pair of glasses. As a first attempt (I’ve never painted or drawn on vinyl toys before) I’m really pleased with how it turned out.
Expect to see more customised vinyl toys from me in the future. They’re enjoyable to do, if fiddly, and the Posca markers work well on them. Enjoy!
Sorry for the lack of updates recently, I was away last week visiting my in-laws and am just getting back up to speed now. But, I’m going to quieter than usual for a while longer I’m afraid whilst I concentrate on getting something ready for launch in a few weeks time.
All will be revealed in due course!
Filed under: General, Products | Tags: cahier, custom, etsy, moleskine, posca, volant
I had a really nice delivery of Moleskines arrive the other day. They include some small cahiers, some large cahiers and a couple of volant sets. The cahiers have a mixture of lined and ruled paper inside with some black covers and some buff covers. I’ll be hand customising them with my doodles over the coming weeks and selling them in my Etsy store. My first two, however, were pre-ordered by my children (well more like “Daddy, I want one and can I have a space man” kind of thing). I completed those first two yesterday (click the images on the right to see them in more detail.)
I’m customising them using Uni Posca paint markers which work really well on the cahier covers. I haven’t tried them on the volants yet, which have soft oilskin covers, but as these paint markers seem to work on just about everything, I don’t think it’ll be a problem. I’ll probably start work on some of the smaller ones over the weekend so keep an eye out for them arriving in my Etsy store soon covered with some original art!
Filed under: Design Process | Tags: digital, illustrator, outlining, pen, process, sketch, tutorial
In part one of this irregular series charting how I go from pen and paper to digital design, I got to the point where the sketch was finished and I was getting ready to fire up Adobe Illustrator. In this part I’ll bring the sketch into Illustrator and do the basic outlining.
Filed under: General | Tags: blue, bug, canvas, caterpillar, dream, let yourself go, moopf, orange, painting, posca, square, uni
I’ve been getting into my new collection of Uni Posca paint pens over the last few days and have finished a couple of new paintings that use them exclusively. Where The Bugapillas Are is basically a larger (12 inch square, deep-edged canvas) rendition of an ACEO I did a little while ago. It’s an evolution of that piece with more detail, I guess. Unfortunately I made the mistake of varnishing this picture after I’d taken the photos and scans of it. I now know that Posca paint markers don’t react well with the varnish (it’s the same varnish I use on my acrylic work). You just have to scratch this up as a learning experience when it happens!
The Dreamer is from an idea I’ve had floating around in my head for a while (it’s quite apt, when you think about it) and is something I feel has mileage for future work – there’s a lot that could be done with the simple concept of seeing inside the character’s head. I’m definitely going for the “feel good” factor with this train of thought, however. This piece in on an 8″ square, standard edge canvas.
My new canvas supplies arrived yesterday so I’ve now got lots to play with. Expect some more new work soon! And also expect to see The Dreamer appear, in one way or another, on items in my Etsy store in the (hopefully!) not too distant future.
Filed under: Products | Tags: moopf, printed, screen, t-shirt, take me away, tee
That’s right, the bullet has well and truly been bitten and I’ve ordered a batch of screen printed t-shirts featuring a re-done version of my “Take Me Away” design. They should be ready in about 3 weeks!
Screen printing is an expensive business (especially the first run of a design as you have to get the screens made up, and this design has required four colours, so that’s four screens) and because of that, this first batch is limited to only 25 t-shirts. They’re on Sky Blue ladies fitted t-shirts and they’re a heavier weight fabric. I don’t like thin t-shirts myself, so wanted to get a good quality t-shirt. They’re being made in the following sizes:
- Small – Dress size 8-10, chest size 38cm / 15in
- Medium – Dress size 10-12, chest size 41cm /16in
- Large – Dress size 12-14, chest size 43cm / 17in
- Extra Large – Dress size 14-16, chest size 45cm / 18in
(Some sizes will have a greater quantity than others.)
Ethical and Environmentally Friendly!
I was determined to start as I mean to go on with t-shirts and looked high and low for a neat screen printing company that is not only ethical but environmentally friendly and hand prints the t-shirts. Fortunately, I found one and they’re helpful and knowledgeable to boot!
The t-shirts themselves are made of organic cotton (so no nasty pesticides) and the inks are waterbased. This means that there are no PVC or phthalates, CFC’s or HCFC’s, aromatic hydrocarbons, lead or other heavy metals in the inks and no solvents are required to clean the screen printing setup afterwards. There’s nothing toxic at all in these inks. Much better for everybody, including mother nature!
Reserve One Today!
As I’m only getting a very limited run done at first I’m more than happy to reserve t-shirts for anybody that wants one. They’ll be selling for £20.00 GBP ($40.00 USD) normally which I know is expensive but these are quality t-shirts made with nature in mind. If you reserve one, however, you’ll only pay £18.00 GBP ($36.00 USD) as a way of saying thanks! If you would like to reserve one just drop me an email at info@moopf.com telling me what size you would like. I’ll then email you back confirming if I’ve still got free stock available in that size. You won’t have to pay anything until the t-shirts have arrived and are ready to be sent out and if you change your mind at that point I won’t get grumpy or upset 
It’s no problem at all.
Shipping to the UK will be £1 GBP ($2 USD) per t-shirt and for elsewhere it will be £2.50 GBP ($5 USD) per t-shirt.
Excited, Nervous, Filling my Pants!
This is something really new for me, and I’ve wanted to do it for longer than I can remember. I also want this to be the first of many t-shirts so I’m really hopeful that this does well and I can use it as a stepping stone to printing more designs up, and in larger quantities. Oh and don’t worry guys, I will ensure that if this goes well, the second t-shirt I do will be available in mens as well – after all the first t-shirt I’m getting printed isn’t something I can wear myself!
Filed under: Design Process, General | Tags: doodle, drawing, medium, painting, perfect, posca, uni
Well yeah, right, I’m not sure such a thing exists and what’s perfect for one person isn’t perfect for another. I think that goes without saying (so sorry for…erm…saying it.) But, since I started drawing and painting again (that was May last year) after a break spanning probably 8 years or so, I constantly seem to be craving my perfect medium. The combination of base and paint/marker/pencil/biro/anything that I feel most comfortable and does what I need it to do. So where has that led me?
