In an effort to build my custom plush portfolio (one of my New Year's goals) I tweeted a few weeks ago asking if anyone would like me to create a plush version of their logo. I heard back right away from Sarah Day whose blog is A Small Fox in a Big World. Sarah is someone I've been in touch with on and off for many years. She helped me to design a postcard for my first big show in 2007. And she tested a pattern for my new book and is in the process of testing a second one. She has been super generous to me, clearly, and I was thrilled when she asked if I'd make the adorable fox logo that she uses on her blog and in her Etsy shop into a softie.
Sarah sent me a few digital drawings of her fox. I asked a few questions just to be sure I was envisioning the fox the same way that she was and then I sat down and started.
I wasn't sure how I would feel about rendering someone else's drawing in plush. I've only done that one other time (for a print ad that I'll tell you more about once it is released), and both times I was unsure when I started whether I would like it.
But I do! I really love it. To take what a client has given me and build them a three-dimensional fabric version is perhaps the most fun I can think of! Sarah's logo really lends itself to a plush toy. It is almost like a drawing of a toy. I am curious about making plush from a rather untoylike drawing.
I hope Sarah is happy with her fox, and I hope I can continue to build my portfolio so that I can take on more work like this.
Tiffany says
O my gosh she is so cute! You did a fantastic job, she looks just like the drawing!
Danee Kaplan says
That is really super sweet.
Sarah says
HAHAHA! LOVE! Small Fox is a toy, so you are correct in saying she looks like a drawing of one. I always think of her as either a little plush toy come to life or a book illustration come to visit the “real world.” Super cute!
bybido says
Perfect! So perfect 🙂
jodie says
Abby, it looks gret – you have captured the same feel as the drawing (in my opinion). What an exciting path !
Wendi Gratz says
Abby – that is aDORable! You did a terrific job!
Yana says
wow, you did a wonderful job! it looks exactly like the drawing, but cute and cuddly! well done!!
Joy says
so sweet!!! How special to have that.
Katherine of Kitten's Lost Her Mittens says
Just darling! I need a logo, so I can commission a plush…
Heidi says
Well, can you do my logo? Can you plushify letters? I would love that.
Fine Fettle says
Wow, what a brilliant job!Fox is gorgeous. I harbour a secret desire to have one of my illustration characters made into a plush. I cannot sew a button! 🙂
Kristen says
Okay. I am blinking. I find that I don’t have a three dimensions visualizer in my own brain. Or I mean, I found that out when I decided I wanted to do wood carving years ago. I couldn’t figure out how to approach the shape in the wood, which was a vast disappointment to me. I’d always thought I’d be the kind of people who could release a thing from the lump of whatever held it. And you want to make logos, flat logos – like my horse flying across a crescent moon – into a thing instead of a flat idea.
I am really just astonished at the array of styles of thinking there are on the planet. The million ways of seeing things and systems and patterns and causalities. Hmmm. How’m I going to sleep now?
Lisa says
There’s something ironic about a plush anvil, don’t you think? Want to take a stab at my logo? http://www.ideasmithdesign.com
Lisa
abbyjane says
Hi Lisa,
I just checked out your website! I am actually looking to have a logo designed for my business. I wondered if we could trade?