They've been sent off to print so these are the FINAL FINAL ones. I figured I'd have a range for different circumstances- two slightly daft for giving to other artists/individuals who still look like they have a sense of humour in tact, one with an example of my comics, one with an example of my other illustration work. The back is the same on all of them.
I'm getting them done with moo.com who offer 50 for a tenner (more like 13/14 after postage is added). I've seen other cards printed there and thought the quality/paper was pretty decent- sort of semi-matte-semi-gloss satin finish and fairly thick stock. Also, moo was one of the only places I found who were honest about their pricing- lots of other sites offered similar deals but when you read the fineprint there were LOTS of restrictions- such as only one-sided, including the printer's logo, or only having a very limited set of templates which you had to use. Also it was pretty standard for printers to charge over the odds for wanting to place your own artwork on rather than using their shoddy clipart. I'll post up the result when I get them through the post, but for the design process I will say Moo had wome very nice design tools which let you check and double check and edit the way your card would look in the flesh- giving warnings about cropping and ratio and loads of other potential pitfalls.
I'm trying to create a visual brand/identity with the the combination of fancy twiddly typography, strong black and white, and the inclusion of a little texture (the paper background)
Some character sketches for my new idea, instead of writing my own story and focusing so much on that, and looking at other children's books I had the idea of creating an ABC book of animals having two kids dress up as the animals, and do things the animal would do, maybe with a few fun facts. (not too sure yet)
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