Robin Rosenblog

Potato Print Monsters!

Fri, 24 Sep 2010 15:54:00 -0400

Jenny Lacey at the awesome, online, kids magazine, lmnop, asked me to create a story about potato prints for their 12th issue. Since the magazine would be coming out right before Halloween, I decided to develop some potato print monster T-shirts that would be easy for kids and their parents to create. The great photos above were taken by Ian McPherson for the issue.

I had a blast working on this project. Here are some of my “in-progress” potatoes:

My 6-year-old friend, Ashley, helped me test out the process and make sure it was do-able for kids. She created this great shirt (below). She explained that her monster is also a grandpa so he has a hat and a cane. Kids are awesome.

For complete how-tos, download issue 12 of lmnop.

Duck Wardrobe A sampling of some duck outfits that can be...

Tue, 14 Sep 2010 12:43:00 -0400

Duck Wardrobe

A sampling of some duck outfits that can be created in Paper Town Friends.

Paper Town Friends Blog Love

Fri, 10 Sep 2010 17:36:00 -0400

Little Household & Sugar

PAPER TOWN FRIENDS IN ACTION papertownfriends.com

Thu, 19 Aug 2010 16:45:00 -0400

PAPER TOWN FRIENDS IN ACTION

papertownfriends.com

ADVENTURES IN TINY PAPER: PART 2 The shoes for Paper Town...

Sat, 31 Jul 2010 22:23:00 -0400

ADVENTURES IN TINY PAPER: PART 2

The shoes for Paper Town Friends.

MAKING OF PAPER TOWN FRIENDS: PART 2 I photographed each piece...

Sat, 31 Jul 2010 22:13:00 -0400

MAKING OF PAPER TOWN FRIENDS: PART 2

I photographed each piece of clothing 6 times in different states of “togetherness” to get the stop-motion effect when the clothes animate on and off screen.

MAKING PAPER TOWN FRIENDS: PART 1 All of the artwork for Paper...

Sat, 31 Jul 2010 21:55:00 -0400

MAKING PAPER TOWN FRIENDS: PART 1

All of the artwork for Paper Town Friends is created out of paper.

I started by sketching the characters and a variety of outfits for them. I used these sketches as templates to cut all of the artwork out of paper.

ADVENTURES IN TINY PAPER: PART 1 There are 38 tops in the Paper...

Sat, 31 Jul 2010 16:33:00 -0400

ADVENTURES IN TINY PAPER: PART 1

There are 38 tops in the Paper Town Friends app. Yes it took me a while.

INTRODUCINGPAPER TOWN FRIENDS I just finished up my first app...

Sat, 31 Jul 2010 14:40:00 -0400

INTRODUCING
PAPER TOWN FRIENDS

I just finished up my first app for the iphone: a dress-up app for kids called Paper Town Friends. I made all of the artwork out of paper.

I really wanted to create artwork that would stand out in the iphone market and appeal to kids. Much of the artwork in the app store is vector-based and I thought it would be fun to create something that felt more hand-made.