From drawing to product design

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There is one private art gallery in my hometown and they recently decided to set up a gallery shop to sell items designed by local artists. The gallery manager asked me to offer something for the shop. I have been selling mainly postcards and tote bags, but I took this opportunity to make the variety of the products of my design much wider.

I share with you some of the items I recently produced utilizing my original drawings because I wonder if there are some people who may be interested in the same kind of activities.
Hope you enjoy!

Original drawing titled “petite wildness”.

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2020-06-09_2030432750×2009 1.24 MB

Products of this design include:

  1. Thank You tug/sticker

    thankyousticker_tabby_pp2
    thankyousticker_tabby_pp21748×1748 657 KB
    thankyousticker_tabby_blue_pp2
    thankyousticker_tabby_blue_pp21748×1748 789 KB

  2. calendar

    calendar_petitewildness_blue_pp
    calendar_petitewildness_blue_pp1748×1748 713 KB
    calendar_petitewildness_pp
    calendar_petitewildness_pp1748×1748 733 KB

  3. letter set

    pp用
    pp用1771×1771 2.1 MB

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    11771×1771 2.15 MB

Original drawing titled “the gondola cat”.

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2020-05-07_165030_VIforum1181×1637 1.71 MB

Products of this design:

  1. calendar
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    calendar_dg_9101754×1240 1.36 MB
  2. tracing paper bookmark
    DSCN7533
    DSCN75331509×1508 720 KB

Original drawing titled “chaos”.

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3_2020-04-16_121600_downsized945×1353 1.42 MB

Products of this design:

Thank you shop card

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thankyoutugdesign_leaf_pp21181×1181 727 KB

Original drawing titled “fir tree”.

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cd2019-11-25_0927183485×5314 3.17 MB

Products of this design:

  1. letter set

    pp用_main
    pp用_main1771×1771 2.08 MB

  2. tracing paper bookmark

    DSCN7532
    DSCN75321462×1462 463 KB

Original drawing titled “values”.

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1_values1063×1515 867 KB

Product: thank you card of a wide variety of colours

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leaftugfull_pp3543×3543 3.34 MB

Original drawing titled “koneko guruguru”.

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konekoguruguru postcard_12331×1575 1.08 MB

Product-a cute kitten tote bag!!

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商品写真_kitten_23541×3541 1.29 MB

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Great work! Love them all.

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Maki,
I’m jealous! This is really good and a great idea to market your art! Great concept and style. Thank you for sharing it with us.
Jack

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By the way, who prints these items for you?

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Thank you, Denise! :cat:

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Thank you Jack! Other than the tote bags, I do all the printing jobs for myself. For the recent couple of days, I have been struggling to figure out the best envelope layout for printing plus actually make these envelopes successfully. I didn’t know that making envelopes was so difficult! :cat:

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I am a fan of yours Maki. Love what you do. How many hours do you spend on drawing… say the cat and the leaf?
Estelle, Australia

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Hi Estelle, thank you so much for your kind words!

Regarding the hours I needed to complete these drawings, I actually have been taking a pretty detailed record of them. According to the data I have:
e.g.

  • petite wildness: 4 hrs
  • the gondola cat: 13 hrs for preparation, 17 hrs for drawing
  • values: 5.5 hrs
  • chaos:17 hrs
    …so and so :cat:
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What a great idea, I love these!

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Thank you Darrel, glad you love them :cat:

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A great opportunity. Very creative designs–I can see why they are selling. Keep that imagination flowing.

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Thank you for your kind comment, Patsy! :sparkling_heart: