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Do you use a service to print your books & buttons, or do you press and collate them yourself? I really love your work and I'm curious how you approach self-publishing as a full-time independent illustrator!

Hi there! Thank you so much for asking!

All of my buttons are made via a manufacturer! They're often very cheap to have made. I 100% recommend this merch resource list created by Lily Grace if you're looking to get merch made and need a place to start! :) https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1mk9wl0LiYNStnXxwHAE6hd4-uzDMhfvnHsh819KlQeA/edit?gid=0#gid=0

As for books, I'm currently using https://www.grekoprinting-comixwellspring.com/ as a printer for my one little soriku book. I'm still a novice when it comes to physical print, but its a really nice option to have when selling at conventions! If you're considering printing an art book or comic book, I'd recommend having a digital option for accessibility, too! ^^

Making your own merch is still totally a valid option, if you're willing to invest in the resources to do that! There's plenty of good reasons to do stuff in house. I personally prefer to not have the extra workload because I'm already so bad about dragging my feet on the simplest of work tasks LOL!

Am I the only one who as a child erroneously assumed Axel from Kingdom Hearts was a werewolf and was supposed to turn into Red XIII/Nanaki from Final Fantasy or is that just me

geckos AU : Sephiroth + Genesis + Angeal (I said I would do it, didn't I?)

got sick with the flu last week so I designed AGS as side characters for Rhaco: Geckos of New Caledonia.

Introducing the Dead (Bird) Poets' Club!

Genos (Satanic Leaf-tailed gecko) is the club's self-declared leader, as he is also its founder. He's a theater kid and came up with the idea of carrying around bird wings strung up like costumes to perform roles from his favorite plays (mostly Leafless).

Seflop (Giant Leaf-tailed gecko) is the club's de facto leader on account of his actual bird-killing track record. At first this was accidental, but now he has a problem and they can’t make him stop... what's his deal with property damage all of a sudden? The hair is a cape of egret feathers. They're not natural... we think.

Anjil (Frilled Leaf-tailed gecko) was roped into his best friends' club and now acts as damage control, carrying the overflow wings from their bird-killing sprees. He is on good terms with Zekk and routinely apologizes for the club's antics. He also doesn't just leave.

I only had time for AGS right now, but as for Cloud and Zack-- they run a joint tailoring shop in the gecko village (feathers, leaves, & fur fashion). Clao does mainly feathers, so he's a constant victim of his wares being raided by the AGS club.

So my buddy ol' pal might have gotten me into RWBY. It mashes surprisingly well with my Sonic obsession. It's like they're harmonizing!

Nora's the best, change my mind, you can't.

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PIGEON SORIKI

WELCOME! to Fridge’s tumbling zone—

if you find my real name through another profile, still call me Fridge please and thanks 🙏 (it's what I go by in fandom spaces, and 90% likely how you "know" me)

I’m graduating art school this spring and majoring in illustration, if all goes as planned! I have a website for my work and a Redbubble for buying a few of my designs. I animate and make prints as well.

I am cake n' aces and apparently my brain is wired differently!

Interests :

The main fan stuff I reblog is 👑 Kingdom Hearts, 🥀 RWBY, and sometimes ❄️ Frozen.

I am teeth-and-nails obsessed about Xion (KH) and Penny Polendina (RWBY)

I also like

🦎 geckos, especially New Caledonian geckos! I'm making a comic about them! My crestie OC Ves is basically my fursona at this point, and he has his own young readers' adventure story incorporating my interest in their ecosystem

🌟Flight Rising, the dragon petsite into which I pour my conlang hobby. I sell chibi stickers of all breeds chronologically released up to 2023, am in the Light flight, and Aethers are my favorite breeds.

🎧Coldplay! They are my favorite band, I know their discography extensively. My favorite album is X&Y -- though my favorite songs are probably from A Rush of Blood to the Head)

🦉 Guardians of Ga’Hoole… aside from the books being fantastic by their own merit, I have 100%ed the shovelware Wii game to the ends of the earth and back, and I still have the Soren Christmas ornament / Soren and Gylfie Beanie Babies from when I was a kid

💎 Spyro the Dragon-- I was introduced on the ones where Spyro is in a beat-em-up genre, but I love my spunky skateboarding little collectathon dragons. (Legend of Spyro -> Skylanders -> Reignited)

Tags:

I love reading tags and comments on my work btw. If you’ve left a message I’ve probably read it!!

I'm kinda inconsistent with my tags— only recently started using them to make things searchable on my blog

#fridge’s art for.... guess

#fridgefanatic is for all other original posts

for fictional characters, if they have a name that is common, I usually add fandom specifiers in the tag for their name

If I think of anything else I'll add it! (And of course, feel free to ask "About Me" questions)

Encounter with a strange hobbit

What's everyone's favourite flowers that aren't like. The normal ones. Like everyone's a fan of roses and sunflowers what's a more niche one. One you don't get in gift sets. Mine's sweet peas

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