In an effort to build my custom plush portfolio (one of my New Year's goals) I tweeted a few weeks ago asking if anyone would like me to create a plush version of their logo. I heard back right away from Sarah Day whose blog is A Small Fox in a Big World. Sarah is someone I've been in touch with on and off for many years. She helped me to design a postcard for my first big show in 2007. And she tested a pattern for my new book and is in the process of testing a second one. She has been super generous to me, clearly, and I was thrilled when she asked if I'd make the adorable fox logo that she uses on her blog and in her Etsy shop into a softie.
Sarah sent me a few digital drawings of her fox. I asked a few questions just to be sure I was envisioning the fox the same way that she was and then I sat down and started.
I wasn't sure how I would feel about rendering someone else's drawing in plush. I've only done that one other time (for a print ad that I'll tell you more about once it is released), and both times I was unsure when I started whether I would like it.
But I do! I really love it. To take what a client has given me and build them a three-dimensional fabric version is perhaps the most fun I can think of! Sarah's logo really lends itself to a plush toy. It is almost like a drawing of a toy. I am curious about making plush from a rather untoylike drawing.
I hope Sarah is happy with her fox, and I hope I can continue to build my portfolio so that I can take on more work like this.
O my gosh she is so cute! You did a fantastic job, she looks just like the drawing!
That is really super sweet.
HAHAHA! LOVE! Small Fox is a toy, so you are correct in saying she looks like a drawing of one. I always think of her as either a little plush toy come to life or a book illustration come to visit the “real world.” Super cute!
Perfect! So perfect 🙂
Abby, it looks gret – you have captured the same feel as the drawing (in my opinion). What an exciting path !
Abby – that is aDORable! You did a terrific job!
wow, you did a wonderful job! it looks exactly like the drawing, but cute and cuddly! well done!!
so sweet!!! How special to have that.
Just darling! I need a logo, so I can commission a plush…
Well, can you do my logo? Can you plushify letters? I would love that.
Wow, what a brilliant job!Fox is gorgeous. I harbour a secret desire to have one of my illustration characters made into a plush. I cannot sew a button! 🙂
Okay. I am blinking. I find that I don’t have a three dimensions visualizer in my own brain. Or I mean, I found that out when I decided I wanted to do wood carving years ago. I couldn’t figure out how to approach the shape in the wood, which was a vast disappointment to me. I’d always thought I’d be the kind of people who could release a thing from the lump of whatever held it. And you want to make logos, flat logos – like my horse flying across a crescent moon – into a thing instead of a flat idea.
I am really just astonished at the array of styles of thinking there are on the planet. The million ways of seeing things and systems and patterns and causalities. Hmmm. How’m I going to sleep now?
There’s something ironic about a plush anvil, don’t you think? Want to take a stab at my logo? http://www.ideasmithdesign.com
Lisa
Hi Lisa,
I just checked out your website! I am actually looking to have a logo designed for my business. I wondered if we could trade?