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When it's Time to Redo Artwork

 When I first starting creating tango themed art, it was mostly on my phone and meant primarily for social media. Memes, quick paints I could do on my phone while waiting in line, that sort of thing. When people asked me to start making stickers, posters and other printable products, I just transferred those designs to the various platforms. 

At that time I was using vintage textures and brushes because I thought they fit well with tango photography and artwork - which was fine for social media. It wasn't fine on printed media. Some artworks did ok on some products and not others. Then I started working with SVGs (vector art) and I was able to create very clean lines in any size I needed and they printed so beautifully! And that led to the big question.

Do I redo my old artwork?

Slowly, but surely, the answer is yes. I've taken down the artwork that doesn't print well - or the specific products it doesn't print well on. And I've started redoing my more popular art first. I'm working through the early catalog and it will take probably until the end of this year, but I think it's so very worth it.

Let me know what you think. Here are the first artworks people asked me to put on printable media. The larger image is the new artwork and the smaller one in the bottom right corner is the original.

Laser Eyes Cabeceo Cat


Cabeceo Cat when the Milonga is too Dark

In both cases I tried to keep the overall composition and started with drafts created in Affinity Publisher. I then added detail and shading that's best done in Procreate or PhotoscapeXPro depending on what brushes I need.

Please let me know what you think of these new versions! And if you buy artwork from Print-on-Demand websites like Redbubble, Society6 or Zazzle, let artists know when something doesn't print right. To get a refund, contact the store directly - but artists rarely get told when something simply isn't printing well on the selected medium. (And we can buy only so much of our own merch before our respective significant others get nervous.

 

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