Curtis

It's a little later than planned (busy weekend), but I managed to finish and upload my new design today.

 

I wanted to do something a little different from my usual style; it's always good to be diverse in what you do and step outside of your comfort zone. I enjoyed doing the design, and I actually learned a vouple of things along the way, so that's always a bonus.

Decided to go with a different approach this time and go with stickers, IP cases and, for the first time, a poster. I tried it as a t-shirt but I wasn't really happy with how it looked; the file has to convert to CMYK when you upload it, so it loses alot of the vibrancy that the other products keep, and I think it kinda killed it for me as a tee, which is a shame. Still, i'm pretty happy with these. I made a bit of a meal of the shadows on the letters at first, but I figured out a much more sensible and faster way of doing it, which helped sped the process up a bit.

I've still got quite a few unfinished designs sitting on the computer which I think I may try and complete next, but I do have new ideas that I want to try out too. Either way, i'm going to be putting in a lot more effort from now on, both in terms of designs and this blog too. Expect much more regular updates from now on.

Here's the link to the RB page for Curtis 

New design preview

As promised, here's a quick preview of the tee that I'm currently working on. Bear in mind that even this preview isn't quite done yet; it needs some tidying and further adjustment yet. I'm still hoping to get the tee done and uploaded by the weekend, but I'm gonna be pretty busy with work and other things in the meantime, so it may be a little late. We'll have to wait and see.

New design coming...at last

Lol, I haven't posted in over a month, oh well

To be fair I have actually been working, but even so, I really need to stop procrastinating with this so much

Anyway, just a quick post to say that i'm working on a new t-shirt. Started it the other day, it's a little different to my usual style but it's good to mix stuff up once in a while. Shouldn't take too long to do, so hopefully it'll be up by the weekend (I mean it this time).

I'll post a little preview of it later when I get back from work

AT LAST

It took me about 5 times longer than it should have done in the first place, but I finally managed to finish my new design.

Here's the link to the redbubble page for it.

Right, onto the next design.

I am still here

Just in case anyone was wondering, I am still here. I'm sorry to say however that i've been majorly slacking off lately. What can I say, i'm bad at motivating myself, but i'm working on it.

Anyway, I started a new t-shirt design today. It shouldn't take too long to get it done so hopefully i'll have it ready by the weekend.

End of year round up

I probably should have gotten this done sooner but oh well.

I did a round up of my sales figures last year, taking note of things like the most popular product, most profitable month, etc. I did it again this year, so I figured i'd post the info here.

FYI, I didn't spend a particularly long time doing these numbers so they're estimates rather than exact figures. I might get around to correcting them so they're more precise sometime in the future, but for now bear in mind that they're ball park figures.

Best selling product overall: Sonic t-shirt (same as last year)
Best selling t-shirt: Sonic t-shirt, 70 sold (roughly 59 more than last years best selling t-shirt)
Best selling sticker: Sonic sticker, 25 sold (roughly 21 more than last years best selling sticker)
Best selling Iphone case: Daft Punk, 3 sold (no Iphone cases last year)
Best selling kid's clothes: Sonic, 5 sold (no kid's clothes last year)
Total number of products sold: 334 (roughly 277 more than last year)
Number of designs introduced: 27
Most profitable month: August, £136.91 (£92.89 more than last years most profitable month, November)
Least profitable month: March, £12.24 (£7.95 more than last years least profitable month, August)
Highest monthly sales: December, 82 products sold
Profit: £702.04 (roughly £521.13 more than last year)

So there you go, not bad. I'm pretty pleased with the 27 new products introduced, I didn't realise it was that many. With any luck i'll get closer to 50 this year.

In case anyone was wondering...

...i'm taking a brief hiatus from designing over the holidays. I'm going to post a quick summary of how i've done this year in a few days time, but other than that I won't be working on anything until the new year. I've got ideas, i'm just gonna give myself some downtime while I can.