Steps 3 & 4

Yesterday I shared the digital drawing stage of my design process. Today I jump ahead to share the prototype stage. The prototype stage is actually stage 4. Step 3 is printing the designs onto heat transfers and pressing them to white cotton fabric. Step 4 is taking the fabric, sewing and stuffing the plushies. From here I decided what needs to be changed or improved on. I also use this step to decided whether to send the design to be printed on fabric by the yard. For those wondering who I use for my fabric printing, I use Spoonflower.com , I've been very happy with their work. Pricing may seem high, but when you think about having your very own designs that no one else can buy it's worth it.
Here's a peak at some prototypes. 

 

I couldn't resist taking a picture on the beautiful new plates my parents bought us for Christmas.

 

Taco

 

Avocados

Hope I didn't leave you too hungry :)

Step 2

Yesterday I shared my sketches for my new Yummy collection of plushies. Today I'd like to share step 2 of my design process. I take my sketches into Illustrator and redraw them. During this step I can resize the drawings to make my plushies as big or small as I'd like them.

This is my step 2:

Hopefully tomorrow I can share some pictures of my prototype plushies.

Fresh Sketch Friday

A peak at my sketch of the limited edition plush for April's Artes Alley. The theme is Urban Art.

New Business Cards

After the holidays I was left with only a hand full of business cards so it was time to reorder. I looked at the little stack that I had left and decided that they really didn't represent Studio Longoria very well.  This weekend I sat down to redesign my cards. I played around with the placement of my dolls on the standard card template, and I just wasn't feeling them. I was about to walk away when my husband looked at them and said "Why don't you use the new Silhouette Cameo machine to cut your cards the shape of the dolls?" Genius! I scrapped the design I was working on and started turning my doll designs into business cards. Now everyone that comes by booth at shows can take home one of my little muertos. They aren't perfect yet, I'm still working with lining them up to be cut, but they are super cute. I can't wait to pass these little guys out at my next event.