Started work on the next paleo print - Therizinosaurus! What a weird Dino. And having trouble with this because there’s honestly a real lack of details about this species specifically. Weird what dinos become well known.

 

I've put blogger app on my phone in hope I'll post more photos of bleach tees and such... 

This is a test!

I illustrated this ages ago but finally got round to making a pattern out of it! It's available from Redbubble printed on many different items!

The sticker sheets featuring the full set of fossil illustrations are also for sale on Bleached Bones!

I have some awesome prints of my 2020 Spinosaurus illustration, available from Bleached Bones.

Original post with the illustration in closeup can be found here.

 

 I don't post every bleach tee here as they would swamp the blog. But 2 of these 4 are completely new and I'm not sure I've posted any of them here before!

They are all for sale in the Bleach Bones Etsy store.

I've had this idea for a fossil themed sticker sheet for a while but I finally got round to starting it this month and finishing it off this week! They'll be available in my Bleached Bones Etsy store once I get them. For now, here's a mockup!

 

Earlier this year I ran a Kickstarter for some acrylic pin badges that was essentially a way to judge demand and guarantee enough sales. Lots of people ask for pins, but in my experience people often say "if you make x I'd buy it in a heartbeat!" and then don't when you make x available.

The Kickstarter went ok - I made the goal and funded the pins and had enough leftover to put them in the store and see how they would sell organically. I'm sold out now!

So that's great and gave me the confidence to run another Kickstarter that improved on some things from last time. The campaign is at the time of posting this still live, so check it out!

One of the inherent problems with the Theme Park Collection in general is that because the designs are based on specific coasters, each one has a limited audience. And so, with pins, everyone wants a different one. And it's just not possible to offer them all, knowing that some just ain't gonna sell. I asked followers on Twitter and Dragons and Nemesis won out by miles. I know that's going against my own advice, but in this case I had already kinda decided would of the new pins would be Dragons... Nemesis felt like a risk. It's not a popular shirt design at all, but I could kinda see how it might be a popular pin. My store gets a lot of hits for "Alton Towers" but I just don't think people like my take on Nemesis. Me drawing attention to how it looks like a giant vagina is apparently not appealing as a big design on a shirt - can't imagine why.

My optimistic stretch goals almost certainly won't be met - but I have the incentive this time of offering backers the chance to vote for the next design to unlock. I'm doubtful, but hopeful, that when I announce the first poll winner tomorrow I may get a few more people on board with the campaign. 

 

I guess I never shared the sketches of these! I decided I wanted to make a bunch of designs for the Theme Park Collection that, rather than be about a specific ride, were more general celebrations of the industry. I wanted to order them as stickers to flesh out the Etsy store first, but they're also available on Teepublic and Redbubble on a variety of merchandise! 3 of these stickers were pre-existing designs but I figured it would be nice to share them here anyway as I like how they look!

I'd been thinking of turning my "death pose raptor" design for my bleach shirts into a logo of sorts for some time. Finally had the time to invest in it!

Bleach Bones Store

Some more pin photos! I'm very happy with how they turned out. They're now available in the TPC Etsy Store!

 

My pins came last week! I'm so happy with how they turned out. I'll have more pics and the leftovers will go in my Etsy store eventually!

I've been slacking on taking and posting bleach shirt photos here and the weather has been especially bad recently, so I had to take these indoors. But at least I took them!

Dilophosaurus stickers are live! https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/733095198/

Allosaurus shirt! Been a while since I got to do one of these. I’ve applied to a market at the natural history museum in London to sell my shirts, hopefully I get a stall! I’ve be making a bunch in prepif so and it’s going to be, er... interesting, haha.

Haven't posted any bleach shirt photos in a while, so here's a couple I painted yesterday for Etsy orders!

Finally got this finished! But I think I actually prefer it plain! Either way, it's available on tees from my Etsy store. :)

And Beast is finished! Available over on Etsy for those who want tees or posters.

Struggled a little towards the end with this one trying to make it look balanced, but the solution seemed so simple once I put the date up there. Just goes to show sometimes you just gotta move stuff around until it looks cool. 

Phew, this was a wild ride. Felt like it took forever.

I had a real hard time with the bottom right area and the rope. I just could not find a way to make it look natural but stylised? Still not 100% happy with it in some areas, but I really like how the horse turned out and the track, actually.

Available on t-shirts and posters from my Etsy store.

The Tatsu tribute illustration is finished! Had this idea for a while. Wanted to avoid using gradients at all with this one which was quite the challenge - gradients don't translate well with digital tshirt printing. It's available on T-shirts and posters from my Etsy, I'll be adding it to Redbubble later, where a wider range of products will be available.

It's surprisingly rare for a buyer to order a completely custom shirt, but here's a Sinosauropteryx fossil. The little dinosaur famous for having preserved colour pigment in the feathers.

The back also has a fern on the shoulder.