Tuesday, December 8, 2009

1st Blog!

Alrighty! Pop the champagne, light the candles, watch a Johnny Depp movie...it's my first post!

I've decided to open up a blog to correspond with my new Etsy shop (www.ChristisImagination.etsy.com), as well as my new website link (www.ChristisImagination.com). I hope to keep this updated and pray it won't turn into one of those blogs thats gets updated every five months with "sorry I haven't updated!" but only time will tell with that one.

So i'm excited about the progress i've been making with my art business at the moment...it kind of has been dead in the water for a little while now, but things are finally (hopefully) progressing in the right direction. I bought a new domain name, and if I haven't bought hosting yet, I will be doing that soon. I have a wonderful friend who is helping me with the website construction, so I pray that will be up soon. My old website, www.ChristiThomas.net, was tragic to begin with and not really what I wanted as an illustrator, so I'm hoping this new portfolio site will be the platform to dive off of. I spent all of yesterday designing a new logo and business card/mailer, which I am also extremely pleased with the progress of. Scanned in my mailer ideas today over dinner in order to do a couple color comps with before I touch the actual sheet with paint.

The image is my distortion of the White Rabbit, from Alice in Wonderland. It didn't originally start off with this end goal, but it kind of morphed its way into my series. Through it, however, I was inspired to make a couple more drawings to flesh this set out. It will be a postcard series of the girls of Alice, and they will all be provocative and creepy. While it was originally intended to be my business card sketch, my plan now is to use the White Rabbit as my mailer...haven't settled on a business card idea yet. Once I get adobe up on this computer I will post my ink sketch.


My ideas for color are to keep her light and fleshy, with the clocks and mask filigree being in shades of gold. The background will be a very soft blue...

The ladies in this series will include:

  • The White Rabbit
  • The Red Queen
  • The White Queen
  • Alice

My idea for a new logo is based off my ring, and its a coo-coo clock =]

I'll end up posting that as well, i'm sure.

Anyway, like I've said, i'm beyond excited, and have lots planned for this little adventure...

Signing out!
Christi and Jedi

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