I've been working on this hand-drawn sticker project since last December. I normally do a few hand-drawn stickers featuring original creature designs every year to hand out with candy on Halloween. I didn't have time to do it last year, so to make up for it, I've had my largest project since. This was several hundreds of hours hand drawing, colouring, hand laminating and hand cutting out every single design. The final count sits at 211 stickers representing 35 different creatures.
I first came up with some of these creature designs all the way back in 2020 during the beginning of the covid pandemic lockdowns. The original general idea was of pets that would serve as guardian angels and healers. I gave them angelic elements, but went with a more alien sort of interpretation to them. Many of the first pet designs I came up with were based on cryptids instead of conventional pets, such as the jackalope or fresno nightcrawler. I added even more cryptid inspired designs over time.
At the time I was still listening to Welcome to Night Vale and the podcast's aesthetics also influenced many of the early designs. Alongside the jackalope and the nightcrawler, the other two designs on my very first doodle page of ideas were a storm cloud pet and an alien cat creature.
At some point I made an umbrella-based design and it has actually become one of my absolute favourites to draw.
I've found a lot of inspiration in drawing based on bugs and inanimate objects in particular.
Though as a long time keeper of aquatic animals and now working with these animals directly, many aquatics have also inspired me.
I have a few creature concepts that I came up with over the years that I cut from the list for this project because they felt unfinished or like they didn't quite fit the vibe of the set. I might rework some and bring them back for future projects. Creatures based on phantom plecos, a chinchilla, and a ferret... I draw these sorts of things for fun all the time though, and I am going to keep drawing them.
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