Maria Bacus’ Blog

Moki Stuffed Animal

Posted by: mariabacus on: November 12, 2009

I’ve been sewing this entire week, by hand! So it took a while, but now I’ve finished the structure of the stuffed animal, but I need to tighten it up somewhere so it gets a more realistic look and isnt to loose anywhere.

The animal I went for is a formosan yellow throated marten.

The Formosan yellow-throated marten is a subspecies of the yellow-throated marten (an Asian marten species) found on Formosa island in Taiwan. Yellow-throated martens range from 15 to 24 inches in head and body length and their tails range from 15 to 16.5 inches long. Adults can weigh as much as 7.5 lb. Their coats are brown and darken toward and on the tail, and the throat and chin are canary yellow in color. Their ears are low-set and rounded, and their fore and hind feet have naked pads with sharp claws enabling them to climb quickly and easily through trees.

I am uncertain about the eyes I found at the pearlhouse (perlehuset). I thought that the see-through part of the button eye would be transparent against the dark fabric so it would’nt stand out so much. But when I put it against the animal I think it looks weird. I wont sew it on yet, because I need to take a look around and see if there is more teddybear eyes out there.

Look at the pictures.. Tell me what you think.

 

MOKI business card

Posted by: mariabacus on: October 29, 2009

The moki business cartd for my branding project. This is my first attemt to create a fun and professional business card for my Moki toys company.

Let me know what you think..

Pin up hair in photoshop

Posted by: mariabacus on: October 28, 2009

A photoshop drawing im doing right now.. A cute pin up girl that loves candy! She has a cute/sexy pose with a lollipop in her hand. I wanted bright colors that might be assosiated with candy. I am heading the right direction with the hair, the rest of her body and clothes are just base colored.The flower is just a future referance for when I am going to paint it.

Here are some pictures. Let me know if there is something wrong with the perspective, the colors, anatomy etc etc. Click on the picture several times to zoom in.

Monstah on my shoulder!

Posted by: mariabacus on: October 26, 2009

I took a webcam photo and was surprized to see this cute little guy joining the snapshot!

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Kitty tries to get the moon..

Posted by: mariabacus on: October 25, 2009

I am starting a new drawing in photoshop now…  Drawing clouds is the main task in this drawing, but I am not sure about how they came out.. the cat and the tv antenna it is standing on is okey.. all in all a good drawing that took me just an hour to make.. :)

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Vector art

Posted by: mariabacus on: October 21, 2009

I am practicing my vector art in illustrator CS4 . This is a gypsy woman I had to make for a festival in Oslo. I came this far with the picture and then the client said that they wanted a real photo of a gypsy instead. It doesnt matter because I got a great kick-start on my first vector art in a long time. I can post some other vector art I have done with this post, just check out the gallery :) The grim face is one of the first vector art I have ever done, a pretty easy one to do. The angel and devil has more details, I am not happy with the devil fork because it looks like it belongs to Poseidon >_<’ …  And the indian man is a friend of mine, so that is my first portrait..  The gypsy’s guitar is not done and her hands. Please comment if there is something I can do better, I love getting feedback!

Sharma’s wedding present

Posted by: mariabacus on: October 20, 2009

This a picture me and Edmond Yang did together for our friends who were getting married. I think it took 10 hours to complete this drawing. Hope you like!

Henna tattoo design

Posted by: mariabacus on: October 20, 2009

Drew this henna design a couple years ago, published it on deviantart.com and it ended up as a tattoo half across the globe. This is a girl from USA that loved my design so much that she needed to make it a part of her forever :) The tattoo artist made some changes when it came to the thickness of the lines. He said that some details were to small and the variation of the line was impossible to draw. Hope you like!

Logos for Moki!

Posted by: mariabacus on: October 20, 2009

I’ve changed my brandname from mokitoys (motion kinetic toys) to just Moki.. It is easier to work with when it comes to logos and I figured that adding “toys” for a brand name is like having a third wheel. Toys, you must leave the premise! MOKI stands alone!

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