Yesterday I spent the day with my friend Jeremy Ley (amazing illustrator, check out his website and buy something from his shop) printing out art cards and other prints (he has a super printer from the future or something).

They look brilliant!

The paper is so thick and delicious I want to eat it. The images came out in incredible detail and range from beautiful to hilarious to awwww …

I’ll be putting up some images soon on here and on the main site for sale. I’m thinking of also sending the cards to advertising agencies and others who might hire my lovely illustrators.

Printing advice

Blah blah blah grid but Jeremy was right to give me a serious illustrator talking-to yesterday because the trading cards weren’t set up to a grid. A grid means less cuts when you are slicing them up. It means no cropping of edges. I means possibly fitting more images on a single piece of paper (cost-effective). Less cutting is important when you’re slicing slicing slicing all day. I finished up cutting out all the cards last night with bleary eyes and a sore back from leaning over.

I made some mistakes – the major one being distorting some of the images too much. What looks fine on my laptop screen looks just a little too narrow when printed out. I also didn’t leave enough bleed on some images which meant if I was a millimetre off when cutting out the prints, you’d see a white gap on the edge of the image. The easy fix is to add 3 – 5mm of extra image that sits outside the picture frame window.

Images up soon!