Sunday, May 30, 2010

kappa illustration and amigurumi

I'm playing around with different ideas for a standalone berrysprite website. I'm trying to do it on the cheap. Although I'd love to hire someone to do it all for me, I want to see if I can do it myself first. One of biggest problems I've run into has been deciding on a single theme/design for my website; there are so many cute websites out there and I have so many ideas in my head. Layouts, characters, links, pages, carts.... it's mind boggling! Don't expect to see anything too soon because I'm pretty sure it will take me ages to figure it all out. So far I've gotten a domain name and a wordpress ecommerce site. The little kappa above is because I'm working on my graphic illustration skills! I experimented on this kappa with gradients and a gray outline instead of a black one. It sounds bizarre, but I really want to work on making my illustrations more "real" (or maybe more professional is the phrase I'm looking for?) Anyway, graphic illustration is something I still need to work on. I've decided to make more amigurumi out of my illustrations (instead of the other way around!) and he came out pretty darn cute... kinda like San-x's sabo kappa or a little flower!

7 comments:

  1. I love your little kappas. They're always so cute!

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  2. The Kappa is so cute!
    I think your really clever building your own website, I am so impressed with what you have done with your blog. I am new to this, and have very little computer skills. I recently started a blog, to show some handmade items, and I was wondering if I could ask you a question. How do you publicise your blog, mine is very lonely, as there is only me! I'd appreciate any advice! Thank you!

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  3. Awesome! I love the colour combos on that amigurumi kappa! <3 bitty bobbin

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  4. I've arrived from flirck! and here I am!...I really love your things!I'm Following you!


    Lau/MimibU

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  5. Thanks for the blog and kappa love guys; I love you too, haha (welcome MimibU)! In answer to your question becca-san: I actually don't really promote my blog in terms of doing google adwords or statistics or paying or anything like that... I'm very lucky to just have people like you and every other wonderful fan who enjoys reading my blog! There are a few things I'd suggest if you haven't done so already, such as putting your blog url in both/either your etsy shop profile and announcement (if you have an etsy shop) and or letting people know if you've blogged through your flickr, facebook and/or twitter! Hope this helps, and keep on blogging; you'll eventually get loads of people who are interested in what you have to say :D

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  6. Thank you so much for the advice!!! I will stick to it! :)

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