I've added my horse images to a lot of products in my Zazzle store lately but one product in particular I thought might be most useful to horse owners is the business card. Many people who love, own, or work horses offer some sort of goods or services such as training or boarding. So if you're a horse breeder, trainer, veterinarian, farrier, or offer other services such as showing, boarding, or riding lessons, you could certainly use business cards to promote your business. For this I've created matching sets of business cards and business card holders with horses. I've done all the basic coat colors so you can pick your favorite.
Remember, if any of these don't quite fit your needs, I can also mix and match colors to make your own custom version for you, such as this example below.
Showing posts with label Zazzle. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Zazzle. Show all posts
Mar 23, 2017
Mar 7, 2017
Paint Horses Of The Rainbow
In a previous post I had shared a rainbow colored pinto horse with dripping wet paint. Now I've added variations with the separate colors of the rainbow so you can have one in just your favorite color, or to match your decor, clothing, or accessories.
Right now I mostly have t-shirts (including tank tops, hoodies, long-sleeved shirts, etc) with all the different colors on them. Some of the colors are on other products like notebooks or coffee mugs. But it takes a while to add them to all these products so I'm still working through all the colors. I'll just share the shirts for now. Of course you're free to browse my Zazzle store and see what other products are available, and check back occasionally to see what new products have been added.
Right now I mostly have t-shirts (including tank tops, hoodies, long-sleeved shirts, etc) with all the different colors on them. Some of the colors are on other products like notebooks or coffee mugs. But it takes a while to add them to all these products so I'm still working through all the colors. I'll just share the shirts for now. Of course you're free to browse my Zazzle store and see what other products are available, and check back occasionally to see what new products have been added.
Mar 3, 2017
Different Color Horses on Products
In my previous post I shared some horse paintings I created. Being digital artwork, once the base body was created, it easy to swap coat colors to offer a variety of horse colors and patterns so you can select your favorite. I've put those different images on various products. Here are some sample products and links to more.
Feb 11, 2017
New Whitetail Deer Art Products
In my previous post I introduced several new whitetail deer paintings. I've now added some of those images to products in my Zazzle store. These products include everything from coffee mugs to throw pillows, stationary to shower curtains.Here are a few examples.
This is just a small sampling of the products available. Visit my store to see all the whitetail deer images and products.
This is just a small sampling of the products available. Visit my store to see all the whitetail deer images and products.
Jan 23, 2017
New Birds and Fountain Painting
I am already looking forward to spring! My first painting of the year is of a spring garden with birds around a water fountain style bird bath.
You may recognize the bird bath from a painting I did a couple years back, shown below. Since these are digital paintings I will admit I reused the water feature. But I did change its color a bit, and everything else in the scene is different. Instead of purple clematis clinging to the fence, I now have cosmos flowers among the daisies around the fountain. Instead of a "spear" style picket fence I now have a Gothic style. The bluebirds and goldfinches are in different positions, and I've added three black-capped chickadee and a male red cardinal. The background is also different, with a softer look to give more depth of field. So, overall it has the same feel but is very different in many ways.
I've actually had some people say they do not like bluebird landing on the fountain in the old painting. I'm not sure what it is about the bird that bothers people. Perhaps the wide wing spread and feet extended give people the feel of an eagle or hawk about to land on its prey, so perhaps there's a subconscious negative connotation there. I personally love seeing birds in flight. Their wings are so beautiful, especially when the light from above shines through them, giving them a heavenly glow. But, if that's not your thing, there's now a new version where all the birds are just sitting and quietly socializing in the warm spring sunshine. :)
There are, as usual, prints and other products available featuring this new artwork. Visit my Pixels site for fine art prints and greeting cards. Visit my Zazzle store for other products, all of which can be personalized to make unique gifts. Below are a few sample products including a throw pillow, shower curtain, tote bag, bath mat, and wall clock. See more products here.
You may recognize the bird bath from a painting I did a couple years back, shown below. Since these are digital paintings I will admit I reused the water feature. But I did change its color a bit, and everything else in the scene is different. Instead of purple clematis clinging to the fence, I now have cosmos flowers among the daisies around the fountain. Instead of a "spear" style picket fence I now have a Gothic style. The bluebirds and goldfinches are in different positions, and I've added three black-capped chickadee and a male red cardinal. The background is also different, with a softer look to give more depth of field. So, overall it has the same feel but is very different in many ways.
There are, as usual, prints and other products available featuring this new artwork. Visit my Pixels site for fine art prints and greeting cards. Visit my Zazzle store for other products, all of which can be personalized to make unique gifts. Below are a few sample products including a throw pillow, shower curtain, tote bag, bath mat, and wall clock. See more products here.
Dec 20, 2016
A Simple Way To Find Stray Pixels in Photoshop
If you work in Photoshop or something similar you know what an advantage it is to keep different elements of your art on different layers. This allows you to add, subtract, resize, or move elements in your scene around, or remove the background altogether.
Since I've been doing more digital art I'm also doing more art where the subject can separated from the background scene and saved as a PNG file with transparency. This is useful for putting the image on products, particularly things like t-shirts and coffee mugs where you don't want a square photo-like picture on the product.
One of the things to keep in mind when creating images for shirts, and some other products, is there is no such thing as white ink. So when the printing company puts an image that contains white or light colors onto a dark shirt they have to put a white undercoating down first, then spray the darker colors over it where the image is not going to be white. They put the white coating down based on the pixels in your image so if your image doesn't have clean edges you may get a white outline or stray white spots outside the main image. So it's important to find any stray pixels or jagged edges and clean them up.
These stray pixels can occur without you realizing it, if you accidentally bump your brush against your drawing tablet when using a light color or lower opacity. Or perhaps you erase part of the image. It might look like you got it all but even 1 tiny mostly transparent pixel will cause a white undercoat to be laid down there on your shirt or other product. Finding that tiny pixel can be hard just by eye-balling the image. So here's a quick little trick to bring those little guys out of hiding.
Here's my original image, one of a silly chicken in a Santa hat I created for Christmas stockings and shirts. It looks pretty clean outside the edges, right?
Well, looks are deceiving. I know it's not that clean in reality because I created this from another image, moving the chicken's head a bit and erasing the old part of the head and neck. I'm sure there are pixels that I missed that need cleaning up. But I can't see them. So what we do to bring them out is right-click on the layer in the Layers panel and select Blending Options. In the panel that pops up go down to the bottom and select Stroke. Play with the size until you can see spots appearing outside the edges of your image, but don't make it so big it covers small pixels near the edge. Pick a color that's different from your image edges so you can see it better. Here's what I get with mine.
As suspected, there are stray pixels around the hen's neck where I didn't quite erase it all when adjusting the bird's head position. I need to clean those up so they don't produce spots when printed on dark fabric. To do that I just use the eraser tool and dab those spots. The nice thing about the Stroke blending option is that, as you erase the pixels, the Stroke outline will disappear too, letting you know you got it all. (Don't use the Stroke under the Edit menu for this...you won't the same results.) Here's the chicken with edges cleaned up.
When you get your image all cleaned up right-click on the layer in your Layers panel and select Clear Layer Style. Now it's back to how it appeared originally but you know you've cleaned up any stray pixels so you'll have a nice clean print on your shirts and products.
And here's my chicken on a "Merry Chickmas from your local chicken farmer" shirt.
Since I've been doing more digital art I'm also doing more art where the subject can separated from the background scene and saved as a PNG file with transparency. This is useful for putting the image on products, particularly things like t-shirts and coffee mugs where you don't want a square photo-like picture on the product.
One of the things to keep in mind when creating images for shirts, and some other products, is there is no such thing as white ink. So when the printing company puts an image that contains white or light colors onto a dark shirt they have to put a white undercoating down first, then spray the darker colors over it where the image is not going to be white. They put the white coating down based on the pixels in your image so if your image doesn't have clean edges you may get a white outline or stray white spots outside the main image. So it's important to find any stray pixels or jagged edges and clean them up.
These stray pixels can occur without you realizing it, if you accidentally bump your brush against your drawing tablet when using a light color or lower opacity. Or perhaps you erase part of the image. It might look like you got it all but even 1 tiny mostly transparent pixel will cause a white undercoat to be laid down there on your shirt or other product. Finding that tiny pixel can be hard just by eye-balling the image. So here's a quick little trick to bring those little guys out of hiding.
Here's my original image, one of a silly chicken in a Santa hat I created for Christmas stockings and shirts. It looks pretty clean outside the edges, right?
Well, looks are deceiving. I know it's not that clean in reality because I created this from another image, moving the chicken's head a bit and erasing the old part of the head and neck. I'm sure there are pixels that I missed that need cleaning up. But I can't see them. So what we do to bring them out is right-click on the layer in the Layers panel and select Blending Options. In the panel that pops up go down to the bottom and select Stroke. Play with the size until you can see spots appearing outside the edges of your image, but don't make it so big it covers small pixels near the edge. Pick a color that's different from your image edges so you can see it better. Here's what I get with mine.
When you get your image all cleaned up right-click on the layer in your Layers panel and select Clear Layer Style. Now it's back to how it appeared originally but you know you've cleaned up any stray pixels so you'll have a nice clean print on your shirts and products.
And here's my chicken on a "Merry Chickmas from your local chicken farmer" shirt.
Dec 17, 2016
New Website for Cartoon Art
To keep my realistic style and my cartoony style art separate, I've created a new website off my ForestStudios.com domain dedicated to just my cute and fun art. I've also created a new Zazzle store for products featuring this artwork. This site will display and link to products in that new Zazzle store. Because there are already hundreds of products in that store I can't display them all on my new website so I'm focusing on t-shirts, sweatshirts, hoodies, etc. There will be a link below each image that will take you to the apparel section of the store to see all the sizes, colors, and styles available. There will be another link below that which will take you to all the products featuring that artwork which could include all sorts of accessories, such as tote bags, and home decor such as throw pillow. Lots of stuff to choose from! So check out the new website and store and let me know what you think by leaving feedback in the comments section here.
So far I have my comical chickens, cartoony horse, cute baby dinosaurs, seasonal Christmas stuff, and funny football art up, with more to come. Here are a few samples of what's there.
So far I have my comical chickens, cartoony horse, cute baby dinosaurs, seasonal Christmas stuff, and funny football art up, with more to come. Here are a few samples of what's there.
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