Warped Ocean

Hi everyone!

Today's update is mostly just a reminder to please fill out your surveys I'm afraid!
I'm still missing x30 and as I'm ordering add-ons this week I'd really like to get them in ASAP. 🙏

Click here to check you've filled out and submitted your survey!

While I'm here, I've also got a couple more projects coming up soon so if you haven't seen them already I'd love for you to check them out! 👀💕

Corvids of Pride (part of A Pin of Pride) launches tomorrow:


Aaaand I've also decided to join Beasts & Botanicals with a small addendum to Warped Ocean, launching in April! (I couldn't resist an excuse to draw more eye-covered sea creatures lol) :D

I'll be drawing up a small number of pins from sketches I didn't get to use for the Pintopia project; a Sunfish, Turtle, and Manta Ray. There are some very rough sketches in the banner for now.
Warped Ocean 1.2 (part of Beasts & Botanicals), launching in April:


I hope you like the new pins! (I am doing a slightly crazy number of campaigns this year lol, I love making pins so much!)
All the best,

Abi

Hi everyone!

A quick update today because I realised I forgot to explain how fulfillment for the cross-collab freebie pins will be done and it's caused some confusion. Sorry folks! 🙏😅

I collaborated with PhaseMoth for last Pintopia too. On that occassion I ordered and fulfilled the matching mini pins we designed, so everyone got both their freebies in my orders.

This time around it's PhaseMoth's turn to do the same, so rather than appearing in my surveys both pins will be fulfilled through their campaign.

I hope this clears up any worries about not receiving your Kraken pin sets! :D

If you have any more questions about fulfillment you can comment below or submit a request. 

All the best,

Abi

Hi everyone,

I approved the final proofs of the pins today! :D
The only change we've made is that the Mandarinfish will now be 2.5" instead of 2", to better show off the details and make sure nothing more needs to be edited.

The patch-backing poll has ended in favour of iron-on backing so I'll be going with that, in hopes that it shouldn't be too hard to reinforce with stitches as needed but will be easier to initially affix.

Now the changes have been finalised I've made the pre-order shop live, for any of you who were waiting to buy post-campaign!

I've also sent out the 'smoke test' surveys, so a few of you should have surveys in your inboxes now! If no issues arise from that I'll send out the rest of the surveys to everyone on Tuesday or Wednesday next week. :D

Thanks folks! I'm so excited to see the pins irl! I'll keep you updated on progress.
All the best,

Abi

Hi everyone,

I'm doing a quick update today as I've had a few questions about the Surveys and Preorder store.

I've been holding off on launching both for an extra few days as I'm still working out the best way to produce the Oarfish, Octopus and Mandarinfish pins (I may still need to increase the size of those designs and I want to make sure the Survey and Preorder Store have the accurate information on them all).

As soon as I've got that sorted I'll launch both, which I'm hoping will be by Monday at the latest.

In the meantime I'd love your feedback on the embroidered patch: which backing do you prefer for your patches; sew-on or iron-on?
I've attached a poll below so you can vote on it! :D

Here's another look at the most recent sample of the patch:


I'll keep you all up to date on production!
All the best,

Abi

Hello everyone!

Thank you so much for all your support for Warped Ocean. I'm really excited to be making the whole collection of pins, filler pins, prints, stickers and patch and lanyards for you all! :D

Here are alll the unlocked enamel pins:


I'm in the process of prepping the order with my enamel pin manufacturer. 
This week I've been making some reaaaaally tiny adjustments to the Octopus, Oarfish and Mandarinfish pins. It seems I finally flew too close to the sun on details and needed to adjust a bunch of areas to get them the size I want them.
The manu very kindly marked all the tiny area that are too small to fill with little coloured dots so I could make the design adjustments. Here's what they sent me:

And here's how the outlines look now that I've made those adjustments:

The only noticeable change really is that I had to redraw the Mandarinfish's translucent fin to have less lines, but I don't think it effects the design much.
I may still need to adjust the Mandarinfish to be 2.5" instead of 2" to keep all the details clear. 
I'll update you folks again once I've got proofs approved and ready to go! Surveys will be going out Monday! :D

All the best,

Abi