Blue-feathered Amazon Halter Shirt by spuriousink
Yes, it's tacky. No, no one will buy it. But drawing it was a bit of a giggle-fest, for me. And, in the end, that's all that really matters.
Note I used the word "halter", instead of "bra". I'm not a total heathen...
OK, I lied...
Boobs. Leather-garbed boobs. That is all.
I'm too busy to write a brand new bunch of text for this, so -- in the grand spirit of internet "theft" -- I'm stealing the description from my own product line:
Yet another face of EVIL! This is no ordinary starfish! Oh, no! Be mesmerized by its blood red (and sorta pink) gaze! Recoil in horror from its blood-stained fangs! Realize that it's a freaking starfish, that it's tiny and has no thumbs, just as it crawls away from you, leaving a trail of blood across the... ummm... periwinkle sand? WTF? Cue evil laughter!!! Muahahhahhhaaaaaa!
You can see the entire product line here.
I don't remember when I did the original drawing for this. I do know that I never got a chance to scan the drawing. So, last night, when I was going through some of my old, unused work, I decided to re-draw it on the Wacom.
I finished the actual art work this morning, then spent a few hours asking people if they could Identify the species that I'd drawn. No one could. The truth of the matter is that I don't know if I used any sort of special -- Ha! -- reference, or if I just drew from imagination.
Regardless of the original source(s) -- Wontar thinks I'm a "fish combiner" -- my imagination failed me when it came time to name the creation. Ladies, gentlemen, and otherwise: You're now looking at "Spiky-finned Yellow Fish", and you can buy it here - while sighing in relief that I won't be naming any humans.
One of my favorite things about TypePad is the way that TypePad photo albums look and work. One of my favorite things about the internet is the way that Zazzle lets me make money without having to battle my much-improved -- but ever-present -- social anxiety disorder. Combine those two favorite things, and you get a little something like this:
That's the index page for my Design Catalogue photo album. The grid contains the automagically-generated thumbnails for the images that I've uploaded to the album. When you click on one of those thumbnails (Gemini Taiji, in this case), you're taken to a page like this:
The large image is the uploaded image. It's taken directly from Zazzle's super-handy linking screen, downloaded to my computer, then uploaded to the TypePad photo album. In addition to giving one plenty of room for text, TypePad photo albums also allow the use of HTML in the photo's caption area. The smaller product links are from Zazzle's "Copy and Paste HTML" option, and I've put them in a table, just to keep them neat.
At this point, a certain cranky fellow Zazzler would probably say something about automation and SEO, were he reading this. And my response would be "But it's pretty, damnit!"
You can check out the Design Catalogue for yourself by clicking here.
Continuing the grand tradition of designing things for sub-niches so small they have an interest group of me, I now present the first two entries in a series of sign-specific, astrologically-based Christmas designs:
I've linked to the posters, here, because even though these designs don't make sense as posters -- here comes the pro-tip! -- poster images from Zazzle give a clearer representation of actual designs than most other product images do. If you would like to see the entire series of products (some of which also come in a red variation) for these designs, 1) you're quite nichey, yourself, and 2) click here for Aries or here for Taurus.
This series also marks the continuation of another fine tradition: Starting things I can't finish. Sure, I can change "Cancer" to "Moonchild", but coming up with a bad pun for Sagittarius? That's not looking too likely...
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