Starbright Illustrations (blog)

Wow, I just sold another t-shirt on Red Bubble. Here is the page my t-shirt sold from. I had just about written RedBubble off as an avenue for getting my creativity, images and illustrations out there, but every half a year or so someone will actually purchase one of my pieces. This sale has brought the grand total of money I have earned from this site over the two years that I have been a member to fifteen ponds and a few pence. I know that doesn’t seem like a huge amount of money – it’ll pay the rent on my apartment for about ten minutes – but artistically every bit of encouragement helps.

This is a real person, parting with real money for a t-shirt design that I created, and when you consider the enormous amounts of competition on the Internet in t-shirt sales, that’s pretty cool. And it also gives me something positive to write about in today’s post, rather than my latest battles with Puppy Linux – although they might be more enjoyable to read about, I must admit.

It seems that I might have to think about investing more effort in this site again. It is quite time consuming to save my art in the huge format they require for a t-shirt, but it seems like they do sell. Every single t-shirt that has sold so far – all three of them – has featured a cute cartoon or comic book character; a space weasel, a fat little super hero and now a purple monkey, so it might be a good idea to revisit my RedBubble page and remove all the spaceships and killer robots and replace them with strange cute fat little monsters.

Hmm.. might be fun.