Wristbands? Buisness Cards, and Hangtags

If you know me, you know that I nearly always have a wristband on my left wrist, usually its a Knit one that says "RAD!" 

Well anywho, I found a place online that will actually custom-imprint Knit Wristbands. Which is super cool, but, not exactly cheap. Minimum Order size is 120 (and while the price is half of what I'd pay for one in a store Per Band, its still a lot of money) Nevertheless, I'm still considering doing it. (If/When I do, I'll sell them on my Etsy or something for about 4 bucks)

 Soo I went ahead and made up a handful of concept vector images for my future Epic Line of Awesome Wristbands, naturally all ones I would actually want to wear. (Pics after the Jump)

Did a couple "mixed media" pieces... here they are

My local Aaron Bros is going out of business. which oddly, for me is a Good thing.

Because they have lots of cool crap at a min of 50% off, if not more.

I got a nice travel easel for 9 bucks, that was 30.

And they have this cool line of frames made from anodized aluminum, I picked up a couple of the 12 X 12 "Four 4X4" frames, making one for my mom for her B-day tomorrow, the other just because I can.

I'm totally gonna pick up more of the other sizes/styles of these particular frames when I get some more money, as they just have the right vibe for a lot of my work.

-MadArtisan

Gave this place a facelift, also here's a new design I made for Mad Artisan Labs stuff

Yeah so I spent some time today messin around with Blogger's new template designer and now have this shiny new layout goin on, I like the changes for now, but I don't quite have this blog where I want it yet.

And I finished up a new Mad Artisan Labs image recently, I call it "Stitch Science."

I'm sure its destined to be on a T-shirt soon.

Speaking of T-shirts, I'm considering shutting down my spreadshirt store, because even though I'm impressed with the quality(and the fact that I can get legit neon colors), love their larger printing area, and designer interface. They're kinda pricey and the more complicated vector shirt seems to fall apart. Also, I'm not a big fan of their "standard" printing method. so I may be Moving all the Mad Artisan Labs stuff over to zazzle soon.

If anyone out there reading this has suggestions for other alternative Custom Shirt printers/web stores shoot me a comment or e-mail.

-Mad Artisan

This Was a Flat Rate Shipping Box ...

So yeah, after a couple hours and roughly a roll and a half of duct tape (I used about half of the three rolls) here's my new storage/tote box for all my Strapping materials for making bags n such with. its pretty nifty, holds the weight fine, there's several layers of tape near and around the handles to make it stronger. Also, I made the base of the box solid with regular packing tape before I started going to town with the Duct Tape in the first place.

More work on planning out the website today, and working out a new logo design right now. More updates very soon Yaaaay!

-Mad Artisan

PLUSH UPDATE

Ok so I finished up the 2 more "chunk-style" monsters already so here's pics:

Shunk Muhwunk:

Aaaand

Wunk Muhwunk:

Ta daaaaa

-Mad Artisan

I'm happily wearing my "The Flash Blue Lantern" t-shirt today...

Riding out the unpleasantness that is having one's wisdom teeth removed... its been a few days now and I'm just kinda stuck riding that train to recovery junction.

Ya know, its funny how when you have no choice but to remain fairly sedentary and not do very much with your day, you suddenly find yourself wanting to just do all kinds of stuff.

I mean, these past few weeks have been pretty busy with Riding Ziplines, Going to the Zoo, getting said wisdom teeth out, and naturally making more awesome plushies. So getting to slow down was nice, for about a day...now its a bit maddening.

On an upside I'm getting to watch a lot of History and Science Channel, and that's always a good time.

speaking of awesome plushies here's a couple "work in progress pics" of some recent projects:

The head of my most challenging project to date:

Yes, I'm making a Plushie Piñata.
Yes, it will have the ability to hold stuff in it.
No, I'm not making another one.


Also I'm back on track with the Cavalcade of Chunks:  2 of them are 95% stitched and ready to be stuffed:

They may look a little on the "deflated" side but don't worry, that's just because they haven't been stuffed yet. I'll post pictures later today or tomorrow when they're of sufficient squishy.

-Mad Artisan

Hey there Real World... I didn't want to hang out with you yet... but I guess I have to

Yeah, so I'm still coming to terms with the fact that I'm a College graduate.

It's been 5 years getting here, and I literally never stopped being a "student" since the day I graduated from High School, hell, I was already in a College summer class the week I graduated from High School.

So yeah, When I didn't get into Grad School right away I was kinda thrown for a loop.

Now, I'm sure it didn't help that my long time friend and collaborator Greg Lammers got married less than a week after I graduated and I had to be up in Vacaville for his wedding. By the way Congratulations Greg and Lori, I wish the two of you the best.

But anyway yeah... I guess its time I actually figured what to do with myself, because I now have 6 months to a year before I'm back in the mode of Student, and that means I'm "just some guy with an Art Degree" oooo aaaaahh.

Time to Build some websites, start my web review show and try to become legitamately internet famous, and time to start filling out applications for Jobs. *sigh*

in other news if you'd like to check out the comic I wrote/illustrated for my "Graphic Novel" class you can view it here: http://pizza.madartisanlabs.com/ and I fully realize the irony that MadArtisanLabs.Com itself isn't up and running yet.

Also, I'm cleaning off me desk and starting back up sewing projects that I'd had to put off with the whole "make sure I pass my classes and graduate" chaos that was last quarter, and I've suddenly gotten my Nerf Modding/Painting Groove back too so this summer should give me plenty of Blog Fodder.

OH SNAP! I totally forgot to mention I can has a new Camera! Got it as my Grad Present from Mi Familia. Yeah I now own a Cannon Rebel T2i, its a solid Entry-level DSLR and it shoots nice quality HD video too. Now I'd wanted a 5 or 7 D, but this baby costs about a third as much and let me get other things with graduation monies instead of just a camera, so I'm not complaining. Also, It apparently shoots the same quality HD video, but it doesn't have the same level of Audio capabilities on-board on the camera, but hey... I have a shotgun mic, I'm fine.

You may have also noticed that my Etsy Store is still down, and that's because I'm closing up shop on the "Nonsense Monsters" etsy and moving my plush into the etsy store I'll be selling my other "Mad Artisan Labs" products through, figure consolidate everything into one place right?

- MadArtisan