And beyond my expectations by a million. I want to thank all of you for the one last big push, it turned out that we were in overtime with the campaign for over 4 hours (that's CRAZY)

Big props to everyone who has joined our little grasshopper family. You all are incredible and we wouldn't be here without your incredible support, excitement, and push for more things... like yuri

At the end of the campaign there I was slowly starting to lose my mind with marketing. It's honestly the hardest part for me personally, and it sort of drives me coockoo if I do it too long (if you saw my tumblr posts well... thank you for surviving them) This is honestly what spawned bug yuri into existence. I love to add a little fun flare to things, a little silliness, and that silliness is going to manifest into bug girls kissing

The spontaneous goal of €4,800 for yuri was ambitious, and I can't believe we actually surpassed it- I'm shocked! So now I will be in the business of delivering yuri to you all. And not just a single sketch either- I'll do a short comic about these girl, or die trying.

I'll be working on finalising the artwork and sending it off for samples! Both pins and socks. Once samples are produced I'll be setting up the surveys and opening the preorder store. Hopefully all goes smoothly. For the moment you can rest easy and know that lots of bug stuff is brewing under the hood <3

Thank you so much again everyone, I'm truly grateful to you all for coming along on this journey with me <33

See you all soon!

Hello hello everyone! We have come quite the ways since the start of this campaign, and I must say.... I'm so proud of us. I did not expect this to get so much love and attention, especially because it's such a different style compared to my other works. But I couldn't be happier. You're all amazing, please pat yourselves on the back for making this become a reality <3

Now after tallying up all the votes from Backerkit, Instagram and Tumblr, we have arrived to the conclusion that the CHOCOLATE MILLIPEDE has won best in show for the socks!

But that's not all... to show my gratitude to you all, I actually elected to put another design in as official.... because it has lovely autumn vibes, and I think these two go well together.

So from now on, you're able to pick up both or only one of these if you so wish from the add-on section <3

The add on will let you choose which design you'd like at the end of the campaign, so if you'd like them both, be sure to pick this add-on twice!

That's kinda gay... I won't lie.... so I feel like if we can reach €4800 by the end of the campaign then

How does that sound? Can we make these two lovers kiss? Or will the love remain unrequited?

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Last minute shoutouts!

There's some new excited campaigns going on that I'd like to highlight.

You've already heard about Fate, a book project I'm a guest artist on!

But I'd also like to shout out another Irish artist's plush campaign with alien cats! Mori has already made one gigantic alien cat, and now moving on to create mini versions! (and one of them is Garfield. come on you wanna see Garfield right?)

Check it out!

HELLO EVERYONE! 2 days have passed which means it's time to continue with the votes.

You'll never believe this outcome, but the winner of the sock vote is......

How could we have predicted this?!

We continue now onto part two of this voting. Which one these calls to you the loudest?
Now keep in mind, colours will vary on the actual socks as I have to adhere to actual thread colours ;)

This voting ends before the last 48h of the campaign!

And now that we have a design chosen, you are now able to pick up the sock add-on for this campaign ;D

You can add this to your cart whenever :]

GO FORTH MY GRASSHOPPERS! FIGHT OVER YOUR MILLIE-SOLDIER!

I have bundled myself up into gear and have prepared the FINAL design of this campaign... the long awaited SOCKS.

Now I remind you again, these socks are made up of bamboo, and the design will be woven in. The fabric is incredible soft and light, great for warmer weathers and a cloud-like feel if you like to be socks out in the house. While these will have strings inside, they will be quite minimal, and so far from my previous designs I have had no snagging.

Onto the design reveal now!

I have prepared THREE whole designs for you all. A millipede, a longhorn beetle (Rosalia alpina) and a dragonfly lounging on some flowers.
The first two designs are on the FRONT of the socks, meanwhile the last is on the sides.

THE POLL WILL HAVE TWO ROUNDS.

The first round, starting today and lasting TWO days, will decide on which design we will go for. The next poll, lasting until the last 48h of the campaign, will decide on the final colours of the sock.

These socks are a complete community poll. Meaning that it votes will be pulled from Backerkit, Instagram, Tiktok, Tumblr, and Discord. So many places so be very vigilant on which winner you would like!

Go forth! Vote! And if you'd like your friends to vote too, then here you'll be able to find all my socials.

And here are the previous three designs if you'd like to see the current range of socks:

Gooooood morning to all my grasshoppers today!
We are about half way through the timeline of this project, so I return to you all to give you the news and results on all the pin votes and whatnot!

As you already know, the winning millipede became an Ivory.

The snail, which had an OVERWHELMING majority love the painted snail design.

And the weevil, which just like the snail, had an overwhelming vote for the blue species!

Now, as you saw on the campaign page, after we reached €2,500 I promised to make alt colourways of some of the previous pins.
So please welcome the giant rainforest mantis AND a velvet worm!

This makes a whole set of 8! A nice number I think :)

As you can see some of these switch between UV print and screenprint, and the exact method will be decided on during the sampling process according to my manus best choice. Thankfully their UV print is very clean and not grainy like some are, so in the end the only thing that will change is colour output and price (but that's for me to worry about and not you!)

Now I need to slink away and design some socks for you all to vote on :] If there's any specific style or species you'd like to see on them, please let me know!

And with this, I'm happy to say the LAST new tier is now open, the ALL IN tier. Which gets you all 8 pins and the socks :] You can switch too this tier at any time you wish.

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Now for some other news!

I had the absolute joy to be invited as a guest to a fellow Irish artist's crowdfunder to create an illustration with so much detail it haunted me for a whole week.

This is Fate. A webcomic turned into physical books about a little dust bunny by Anthea West. Her work is highly regarded in our Irish community and her storytelling is fantastic. It is thanks to Anthea that I have this small little business, so please do check it out, and support if you're interested :)

My artwork 👇