It’s Wednesday, right? Pretty sure. So far it’s been a very intense week. Not necessarily bad, some quite good, but all quite intense. At my age I can only stand a certain degree of intense before I must return to the sea for a while, like Godzilla at the end of a film.
It’s stream day (Wed 11AM ET on Twitch and YouTube) and the build plan this week is to experiment a bit more. Today’s logo is a prototype head that I built when I was working on another design, which I recall was The Oracle 2.0. It was one of those “I’m just going to start drawing shapes roughly about what I want and see how it fits together” things. It’s how I start most original patterns and although it needs a few iterations to get where I want, there are often intermediate steps along the way that end up being useful.
This is an example. The snout was too long for what I wanted for The Oracle but it does have a pleasing shape and feels very nice on the hand, with the deep mouth plate. It reminded me a bit of the Mystics from Dark Crystal (or UrU if we’re being Comic Book Guy about it) so I’ve labelled it “Mystic”-inspired head. Did a fleece covering for it yesterday and I’m quite happy with the results, so this is likely going to be a new model for the shop(s).
I want to do a couple of things I haven’t done before with this, but how exactly they play out will depend on how today goes. Monday got eaten up by a personal day so I don’t have a lot of time to spend on it, but I’ll decide that as I work on it during today’s stream.
It’s always a juggling act, balancing new designs with building enough to keep the shops stocked. Next week I plan to just do a couple of Smols which are fairly quick so that balances things out, and at the end of it if I have a new type of critter for sale that’s good for everyone.
Time to shake off the cobwebs and get the day rolling. I understand there’s a certain beverage known for assisting with that.