The new year is coming, time for a new collection!

The year is almost over, so it's time to think about next year. If you haven't checked the events page yet, 2025 is the year you'll see me at a lot more conventions. Something I wanted to do last year, but due to moving and Covid I wasn't in time to register for many of those conventions.

This coming year will be different, as I already have 4 conventions in the first half of the year and I'm still waiting for responses from a few.

But conventions aren't complete without the products I sell. However, selling the same thing over and over again isn't fun either, so it's time for a new collection! This time a Lovebirbs collection. Last year I sold DnD inspired lovebirds in 6 different colors. Only as stickers though, but I had a lot of fun illustrating these birds at the time. That's why I'm diving deeper into it with the new collection.

The new collection is: Roleplaying Lovebirbs.

With series 1 in brackets, because I have more ideas than time, so I can only make a selection of the illustrations. If it works, I will do a series 2 next year, the ideas for it are already ready. Here are a few sketches of the designs:

Roleplaying Lovebirbs comes with 12 different designs that each have 10 color variations. After all, lovebirds come in different colors. That means I have to make 120 illustrations just for this collection! Luckily I already started and have finished 20 of them.

For those wondering why I don't expand the old designs, I have two reasons. First of all, I want to use a new coloring style. One with more detail (yes, what am I doing to myself to want that with 120 illustrations). The second reason is a longer story. The old designs are on RedBubble and that's why I found the designs on sites like AliExpress or Zazzle because it's easy to steal via RedBubble. And although I have already reported a few and had them removed, that's quite a lot of work. On AliExpress I can't even figure out how to do that.

Now I have to go back to the drawing board! 100 more illustrations to go…