Digital Artist issue 26 - Double Whammy!

I was lucky enough to get the chance to do another tutorial for Digital Artist, for the current issue. This brief was to create an illustration on Illustrator that had a watercolour feel. This was something I hadn't tried before, but I was more than happy to get my teeth stuck into it! It was really good fun to do.

Also, Robots and Rainbows (the company me and my husband collaborate on) got it's first bit of press in the same issue! :) 

Moooooo!

I finally got round to getting some stuff printed at MOO, horay! 

Robots and Rainbows business cards

Robots and Rainbows postcards

My own personal business cards

Loved the Moo mini cards as I'm so indecisive and with this option I could pick up to 100 different designs! I wasn't that bad, I went for 10

I'll Be Your Distraction!

The latest image I have done for Robots and Rainbows. :) inspired again by song lyrics

We all just pretend to be adults!

These are my latest designs for Robots and Rainbows 

 The top one is just how I feel most of the time! I remember getting to year 6 at primary school and thinking I was so grown up, but now I'm actually supposed to be I feel far from it!

Our first T-Shirt has landed!

We ordered one of our own (Robots and Rainbows) T-shirts from our Society6 shop so that we could see the quality that our customers were getting (and so we could wear some of our own threads!) and we are pleased to report that they look great!

A very high quality digital print with no pixelation, great colour match and nice and comfy :D

You're my human holiday!

A image I did for Robots and Rainbows, now available from our Society6 shop :)

It's inspired by the lyrics from a song by the great band Fun.

Think there will be many more lyric based illustrations to come!

Our new shop!

A little while back you may have read my post about the new sideline that me and my husband have set up called "Robots and Rainbows" The initial idea was that we wanted to create fun, bold t-shirts that we would like to wear and hoped that other people would too.
We would eventually like to print or press the T-shirts ourselves, but to do that we need to do a lot of learning and money saving, so in the mean time we have set up a society6 shop, which sells our designs as prints, t-shirts, hoodies, i-phone cases,  laptop and i-pad skins and i-phone and i-pod skins. The company is US based, but there is FREE worldwide shipping until the end of Sunday (not long left!)

If you want to have a little looksy at the shop click here! :)
We are also currently on Facebook and on twitter @robotsnrainbows , come and say Hi :)

Handmade sketch books

A few weeks back I decided to have a go at making some handmade notebooks, and I'm quite pleased with how they turned out. They consist of a lino printed card front cover. with 40 pages of printer paper and a nice ribbon book marker. I sewed the pages in with a sewing machine, Originally I thought I'd have a go doing it by hand, but my needle just wouldn't go through all the pages!

The books are A5 in size, perfect for popping in your bag, taking on the train or just leaving round the house for making notes and doodles in :). They are for sale in my shop

I will definitely be making more books in the future, hopefully some more ambitious ones too!

Badges and stickers!!!

We had some badges and stickers made up the other day some for Robots and Rainbows and some for Air Monkeys. It made me very excited to see them all together. We have already sold about 15 badges and we put one of our stickers in our campervan :)

They were made up by Awesome Merchandise who were really great and happy to help. I highly recommend them!

Robots and Rainbows!

Another new venture for me and my husband. We both love t-shirts, we both love robots and, well I love rainbows! So born out of that and our desire to do something creative together is Robots and Rainbows.

We are currently coming up with a load of designs and are saving up for a heat press in order to start making them ourselves!

While we wait we have ordered some badges and stickers, which I can't wait to see!

If you want to follow what we get up to you can find us on Facebook and twitter at the moment. When we get to 100 followers on our FB page, we will be giving away a set of four badges and a sticker to one of our fans picked at random.