New project with local game store

[Annaaronson]

Yay! That’s awesome. Congratulations!

[braden H]

That's fantastic! Great work! The craft/boutique gaming market is a vast and in many ways untapped community

[theprairiefox]

@DOTTYP , @Coley , @Annaaronson Thanks all it is good to have excitement about my work. Can't wait to get a few pieces down there and sold!

@Braden-Hallett the gaming market is definitely interesting. As I was talking with the shop owner he was pretty excited about the idea of books as well. He has sold a few kids books already things like the 'DnD ABCs'.

[theprairiefox]

@Heather-Boyd asked to see all of the sketches that got me to this one.

I had 5 sketches and I let my family pick which one to finish. They were very split... which I think is a good thing.

I was surprised that the first sketch was the one to win out!

For my process, after the sketch was chosen I did an ink drawing using a .5 and .25 pen. I scanned that in and sent reversed and inverted it and sent it to the Glowforge to cut my woodcut plate. I then printed 18 of them (only about 12 were good enough to be in the edition) and then I chose one to watercolor. I used one of the misprints to test colors on.

I printed these on Arches hot-pressed watercolor paper, which is WONDERFUL! It worked great for both the printing and the water coloring. I use TomBow watercolor markers for the watercolor. Washes are put on with a brush and the shadows are put on with a TomBow blender. I like the TomBow markers because I am lazy and don't like to mix my own colors and I get very good color consistency with them.

Oh, and I also take the inked version and create the little wooden mini with it using the GlowForge.

[theprairiefox]

The second character is done.

I am getting faster at the watercoloring which is good. I was a little worried the cost was going to be too low, but I think I priced it right from a time/work standpoint.

[sigross]

@theprairiefox sounds like loads of fun. Cool Dwarves.
If you are painting each one then it's classed as a hand finished limited edition print. You can boost the price based on that unique quality. Sometimes better to price based on rarity rather than time taken.

[theprairiefox]

@sigross thanks for giving me a good name for them. I am definitely charging more as they are 'woodcut prints' and hand-printed as well. But I didn't want to have to price them out of the market. Always a delicate balance.

It was funny though, I dropped this one off and I noticed the other didn't have a price tag? I asked the store owner and he said his price tags are super sticky so he was afraid to put one on the frame.

I think I will make him tags that do not stick for my pictures...

[sigross]

@theprairiefox Defo worth a few quid I reckon. Pricing is a tricky conundrum. One way is to increase the price each time you sell 5.

[theprairiefox]

Another...

[theprairiefox]

I did this one for my wife as well. I usually do her a picture for Valentine's day.