New Baby Art & Special Offer for Image Licensing!

NEW GREETING CARD ART

If you've been following me on Twitter, you may already know I've been working on new greeting card art. I wanted to show one of my newest pieces today. Don't have so many anthropomorphic animals in my portfolio so I decided to add some, of course with a baby theme. Seems everyone I know is having a new baby or just had a new baby nowadays. =) The above image is in my licensing portfolio. More cute & cuddly art coming soon, so stay tuned. 

SPECIAL OFFER ON IMAGE LICENSING (limited time):

I'd love to help the economy a bit. It's a tough time for many small & start-up businesses. If you are new in business (or even if you've been around a while) and need to license some cute children's art to put on your products, I am your illustrator! My files sizes - aside from a few rare exceptions - are HUGE, and that's no exaggeration. Chances are good that I have the size files to fit your needs.  My art looks great on puzzles, greeting cards, magnets, postcards & more. If you license from me between now and July 15th, I'm offering 10% off my current licensing fees on the licensing of 3 or more images. I also do custom work so please contact me if you can't find what you're looking for in my existing portfolio. When you contact me for a quote & availability, please give me the image ID #s in my licensing portfolio and mention "Blog 10" to get your 10% discount applied to your quote. (If you see an image you are interested in anywhere other than in my licensing portfolio, please contact me with the title & I'll check availability.)

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Thanks for dropping by today. Have a great weekend!

Some Exciting Studio News

Okay, so I have several new things to announce today:

SWITCH TO ZAZZLE

I made my way over to Zazzle this week and decided I really, really like their products! For many items (mugs, totes & apparel, for instance) the product options are just far more diverse than at CP, so I decided to do a bit of a switch. If you head over to www.Zazzle.com/ColdSnapStudio* you'll see what I'm talking about. You can get a good close up view of each product while you shop, what a cool feature! I love their image protection and how easy it is to design and personalize everything! Their payment methods aren't bad either. =)

NEW GREETING CARDS!

I have birth & pregnancy announcements at my GCU store - about 300 new cards (lots of name personalization). I think for about a week all I did was research baby names to put on these cards. I have the most popular and some uncommon ones, too. If you're expecting a baby or know someone who is (seems everyone's expecting these days), head on over and have a look!

NOW ON TWITTER

For those of you who don't know, I'm also on Twitter now! Follow me for exciting studio news & to keep in touch. 

WRITING SERVICES WEBSITE

My writer's site - ChrissyFanslau.com - is finally up. I decided I need a separate site for writing services. On occasion I have people requesting my assistance for proofreading, editing and writing projects, and now they can get all that information in once place. It will also come in handy when I get around to pitching my YA novels - one of which should be ready by the end of the year (fingers crossed). If you're wondering what's up with the tiger look, I'm going with the theme of one one of my YA novels (I have 3), and that's pretty much all I can say for now. =)

BTW, I worked with a tiger once, got my head literally stuck in her mouth for minutes and lived to tell about it! She was supposed to only give me a hug but I guess she had different plans. Most amazing experience of my life! So that's a little-known fact about me that you get just for visiting today, lol.

Thanks for dropping by and have a great weekend, everyone!

Illustration Friday: Craving

You can tell these guys are craving a thing or two... Well, at least it's not the junk food most kids do. Though that's the point. =)

Thanks for dropping by and have a nice weekend!

Now on Twitter!

So I decided to give Twitter a try. You can follow me here! Found a few (very few so far) illustrators on there and even some cool YA authors. But, I only spent about 5 or 10 minutes browsing so I'm sure I missed a lot of people ... Are you on Twitter?

For the sake of having something to show in each post (feels wierd otherwise), here's something from the vault: 

It's a study of one of my YA characters when he was younger. I did it forever ago but surprisingly I still like it. Always a good thing, I guess it's a keeper. =)

As always, thanks for dropping by today. Have a great weekend!

New Greeting Cards at GCU!

I wanted to announce that I've uploaded more designs to my GCU shop. Some are shown above, but I have nearly 100 greeting cards to chose from now (and adding more regularly). Visit my shop by clicking here.

I hope everyone has a great Memorial Day weekend. Stay safe if you're driving and thanks for dropping by today!