Sunday Night. 5.19.13

The last time I paid attention to this blog was September 2012. I don’t mean to neglect it. Here’s my attempt to revitalize my blog with a long post about what’s happened since then.

A few days after that last blog post, I had a table at my first major craft show. The BUST Craftacular at Maker Faire.

This was how my table was set up. I had tons of goodies for sale and did fairly well. It helped me realize what attracted people and what didn’t. A few weeks after the show I received a email from FAB.com. They had checked out my stuff at the fair and was hoping to collaborate together for a flash sale. Of course I said yes!

The best selling item was my I LIKE PICKLES tote bags. I had a great time designing the packaging for them.

In addition to selling items I had on hand, I had also created exclusive holiday cards to be sold. They are still available for super cheap at my etsy!

I distinctly remember this time of the year I was super stressed out. Following the FAB sale I had a art gallery show at work that I had to create 3 pieces of work for. I originally wanted to work with felt but opted for digital paintings since that was all I had time for. Here’s a look at one of the paintings in postcard form.

Jump into 2013 and I got busy creating graphics for Chinese New Year. This year is the year of the snake and it took me months of planning to make the perfect snake character. I actually even had time to create traditional red envelopes.

And finally these past few weeks I’ve been playing around with some mediums other than paper. Rubber stamps, acrylic and wood galore!

The rubber stamps are currently available in my etsy shop. The panda charms and earrings are being perfected and will be updated soon. Keep an eye out for them! As always, you can connect with me on

my facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/MerryHappyStudios

my etsy shop: https://www.etsy.com/shop/merryhappystudios

Thanks for stopping by! I love to hear your thoughts. ^_^

Sketch, Sketch Tuesdays

Memories from this summer

And of course some new things I have done/created

Tiger vinyl stickers.

I LIKE PICKLES tote bag

Farewell Summer.

Xiao Fu in the Summer.

Guess what this lady has been up to?

Woot! Wearable art! I’ve been developing my brand and characters these past 6 months and I’m super excited to reveal this. This is the first new product of mine in a while and I am so happy with the results. It is also a new medium of mine to play with so look out for more in the future. Also notice the new logo. A website is in the works as well as possibly some PVC figures. Crossing my fingers that the brain juice will continue to work and get inspired. ^-^

The design on this shirt was based off of a tiger plushie I made 2 years ago for a art gallery show. It was inspired by my first trip to China with my family and I saw all these amazing folk art. Xiao Fu is in the same set of designs as Boba pig below. They will be an entire line of animal people as well.

Here is a picture of me after I ripped apart the box and immediately put on the shirt in it’s instagrammed glory.

Also would appreciate some love on my facebook page. It’s lonely.

https://www.facebook.com/MerryHappyStudios

L’arc~en~ciel @ MSG

This past Sunday I experienced one of the greatest nights of my life. I was able to see my favorite group L’arc~en~ciel live at Madison Square Garden! I’ve been obsessed with them for a long long time. It started with a unhealthy love for Gackt and quickly progressed into all other things Japanese. That went on for a good 7 years till college hit and I no longer had time to be a fan-girl anymore. But all that excitement and glee came rushing back. I think I’m in love again.

View of the stage.

The boys.

Hyde rocking out.

Ready, Steady, Go!

Tetsu

Hyde and his sexy ass eyes

Pyro effects, disco balls and more

And final picture of the night. Kissy-Face Hyde. Showing all the fans some love. <<333

UPDATED:

It has now been 4 days since the concert. I am still in a dreamy haze. The concert was surreal and I get over how amazing it is.

I have been listening to the albums Real and Awake on repeat. L’arc and Hyde has been rolling off my tongue non-stop.

Thanks to the new viewers whom have stopped by to check out the photos!

Hope you all enjoy

~Love, Wendy

A photography post

I took advantage of the sunlight this weekend and played around with my camera more. I took these shots of these two new toys in my collection. The craftsmenship of these figures are crazy good. They’re Bishoujo manga-fied renditions of DC Comics female characters. The price is a bit hefty but they’re worth it.

First up is Batgirl.

 

The details are so gorgeous it’s sick. Look at the lashes.

Next up is poison ivy. This one was just released last week and the price tag has increased by $10. Sad face.

Look at her nails…

I’m quite pleased with the quality of the camera in daylight. It’s crisp and the colors are amazing.

February 2012

I recently brought a new camera. A Olympus E-Pen PM1 to be exact. I wanted to upgrade my point and shoot to something that will take crisper detailed pictures without the price and size of a DSLR. I’m liking it so far. The only down point to it is that the indoor shots are not that great. It has a red/yellow muted hue to it and still hard to fix in photoshop. In the daylight here are the results I got.

Reprinted these little guys because they were so popular.

Anything with a yellow tint seems hard to translate on this camera.

Parfait postcards. Did a bit of retouching to this pic.

So far these are all pictures of product shots I needed to take for my shop. I’m heading on out to China this coming April. Maybe I can share my beautiful pics then. And for those in the New York City area, I’ll be at the Spring Anime festival at NYU’s Polytech campus. Hope to see some familiar and new faces. I have a booth there as an artist and it will be my debut at a convention

Here’s some info

Spring Fest 2012
NYU’s Polytechnic University
March 10, 2012 10 A.M – 4:30 P.M
6 Metrotech Center, Brooklyn, NY 11201

and I would appreciate if you guys liked my facebook page. Check it out here.

Dragon Weekend

Happy Early Chinese New Year! It’s the year of the dragon and considered to be one of the luckiest animals/creatures. May the year of 2012 be a year of prosperity, health and love!

Here’s of what I’ve been up to. ^-^

Nona Shopping List memo pads. Printed on 70lb linen paper. Super Awesome, super cute!

Bubble Boy postcards.

All available here

Day Job

I clearly lack the motivation to blog once a week. I’m working the grown up gig now. Doing 9-5 at a big publishing firm. But I vow to you, 2012 will be a better year of updates. Here’s the first post of the year filled with lots of sketches. (and some finals) ♥

Professor Buttface says… Series

I’ll be putting prof. buttface in a series of illustrations based off of famous quotes in books.

First up is Candide. “Excellently observed,” answered Candide; “but let us cultivate our garden.”

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

X-Files and Me

I recently brought season 1 of the X-files. So I decided to make a mini comic about it. This is the first 2 panels. HA. Text is TK.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Bacon hair Grandma

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sweater Boy

And I made a facebook page. LIKE IT if you’re awesome!

https://www.facebook.com/MerryHappyStudios

Hello Again. Goodbye Summer

Pages of my sketchbook

“Little Riding Hood All in Black” Pen Sketch

“Sexy Nerd Squid is Fine & Dandy” Sharpie Sketch

“I’m King for a Day…at Medieval Times” Pen on paper, colored in Illustrator

And now to the new stuff I’ve been making!

I know some of you have seen the Bread and Olives bag already and I would like to introduce you all to the I like Saltines bag. Yum! Loved saltines with milk as a kid. You can get these lovely little items at my etsy or bigcartel.

NEW ETSY: http://www.etsy.com/shop/merryhappystudios

BIGCARTEL: http://www.merryhappystudios.bigcartel.com

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Let’s Dance Sir!