Sketch: So, there’s a badge press in the mail…

Published on July 26, 2010 in 'The Hubby', Cartoon, Plain Paper, Portraits and Sketch. 0 Comments

There is a badge press in the mail, and I am going to have sooooo much fun with it. I can make a badge for any occasion! Husband a little stinky? That could be a badge. A friend does something awesome? I can send them a badge to celebrate! My sister aces a test? I can write ‘Accounting Genius’ on a piece of paper, cut it out, and pin it to her shirt to show her just how proud I am rather than saying it just like everyone else.

So I’m going to go ahead and start doing a little designing before it gets here. I have a feeling that this is going to be the basis for my first badge. For some reason I just feel the need to be all cute and couplesie by having a badge featuring a cartoon version of my husband on it. I can put it on my bag!

So yes… if you happen to see a few roundish sketches over the next few days, do not be alarmed: I have not suddenly found myself lacking the ability to draw in a non-round format, I’m just floating ideas for cute little badges for most any occasion!

Sketch: So glad you made it!

Published on July 25, 2010 in Cartoon, Jenny, Plain Paper, Portraits and Sketch. 1 Comment Tags: , , , , , , , , .

Hi Mum!

So this may well be the first time that my mother has sat down and read through some of my blog. If she decides to go through post by post, she’s going to be reading for quite a while. When this post is finished, it will be number 347! That, to me at least, is a lot of posts!

Oh, and don’t worry, Mum… Jenny is just pretending to be sour. She isn’t really.

That got me to thinking – what is my mother going to think? What is she going to be faced with, assuming that she has at least a brief look through all 347 posts?

Flies. She’s going to be faced with flies. And faces. And owls, and rats, and most definitely bunnies, too. There will be dandelions, daydreams, and random musings on characters which have only really ever existed in my head and on the piece of paper scanned in for that particular post. She’ll even be faced, on more than a couple of occasions, with Jenny. Honestly, I think she’s going to come to the conclusion that I am quite random indeed!

Does your mum read your blog?

Sanu in SL: Give someone your heart.

Published on July 24, 2010 in Digital, Sanu Stuff and second life. 0 Comments Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , .

It was so hard waiting off on releasing these until the weekend. They totally made me laugh with barely contained glee when they were all done and finished. Here’s why:

It almost feels like something has been made whole – a cycle has somehow been completed and come back to the start again. Funny that I should say something so monumental about cute little hearts that people can gift to each other, but it is true!

You see, as a child, I used to draw. I drew a lot. And one of the things that I drew a lot of, was love-heart people. They weren’t all that complicated really – their main shape was a heart, and they had eyes, a mouth and a pair of legs. They were sometimes pudgy, sometimes skinny; sometimes they were smiling and sometimes they wore expressions of anger. It all came down to who the heart was, what their personality was like and how they interacted with the other heart people. Occasionally they had arms, but not often… eyes, mouth and legs were the only necessary elements.

Anyhow, when I completed this little chibi-heart pet, I thought, ‘Wow.’

As a six year old kid, happily drawing on the back of scrap paper and inventing entire societies of love-heart people, I could never have imagined where that would lead. I always wanted to be an artist, but to even think that one day I might be creating a derivative of those first simple characters to sell in an online virtual user-led environment to people all over the world would just have been unfathomable. Kinda makes me wonder where things will be in another twenty year’s time… and whether I will still be creating love-heart characters to make myself smile.

You can pick up your own chibi-heart pet in Second Life now at the mainstore! Go ahead… give someone a heart and brighten up their day.

Oh, and please ignore any errors with the site right now – I’m just doing a bit of an update, and a few things have gone a little wonky. I promise I will get them sorted as soon as I can!

Sketch: Time for another owl.

Published on July 23, 2010 in Owls, Plain Paper and Sketch. 0 Comments Tags: , , , , , , , .
Kat Johnston: Little Chester is an excited little owl!

Surprisingly enough, ‘sketches for owls’ is one of the most popular search-terms people use to lead them to this site. Considering that I have not done a sketch of an owl in quite a while for here, something a little more current in the owl category certainly could not go astray, right?

Thus, I bring you Chester. Chester is an owl. He is also very excited.

I’m honestly not all that sure about what it is that Chester appears so excited about, but I am sure it is something good!

Oh wait… I think I know what it is after all… you see, I’ve decided that after having the site as it is for a year, it is time that I started giving it the attention it deserves and do a redesign of it. So, uh, yeah… keep tuned! Sorry this is just a short post today, but I have to get to work. Phew.

Sanu in SL: Love is in the air!

Published on July 20, 2010 in Digital, Sanu Stuff and second life. 0 Comments Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , .
Sanu in Second Life: Sanura Sakai brings you... love letters! You get an envelope, and anyone who clicks it gets a cute love letter!

I know it isn’t Valentine’s Day, but I say that any time is a good time to express your love and affection for someone. So feeling in a lovey-dovey mood (as you do sometimes), today’s Sanu release includes adorable love letters and love poems!

Sanu in Second Life: Lovely love poems are just what you to brighten up your day and bring a smile to your face.

For both the love letters and the love poems, you receive an envelope, and inside each of those envelopes is an incredibly cute little note that anyone can receive if they give it a click. The love poems take on a ‘Roses are red, Violets are blue’ structure, while the love letters are a bit more free-form.

I had a heap of fun writing them… how can I not? As anyone knows, my products have a tendency to be a bit quirky, so these have poems and letters which span the whole of the love-scale. Some are funny, some are heartfelt, and there’s even a couple of poems in there that seem downright insulting. I mean, with words like ‘poo’ and ‘moo’ rhyming with ‘blue’, you can’t help but work with what you’ve got. Each poem and letter is a lovely surprise.

Stay tuned – these are certainly not the last of the love releases. I’m considering holding back some of the pieces for the second half of the Albero Gatcha Festival, but we’ll see how we go. I might give you a sneak peek sometime soon!