Little Dragon's Pride - Colorful Pride Pins

Hello, Rainbow Friends!

While it's finally going foreward with my other Project, "Pretty Big Kitty", there's another delay for "Little Dragon's Pride."

I wanted to give them in Production - at the same day I recived a message that my Acrylic Keychains for PBK arrive. And that I have to pay 19% Taxes on them. "Thanks" to the EU-Regulations ...

While it was manageable for the Keychains, it would eat up MUCH of the Budget, if I would order the Pins now. And I can't cover this easily, so I have to recalculate the Budget and look for a solution first.

When researching about this, I found out, that there's a chance I don't don't have to pay something, depending on this and that. (And the Keychanins came from another Manu.)
I didn't had to pay on the Pins I recieved in Summer, so maaaybeee ...

These Taxes won't disappear as quick as they came of course, but acting without a plan would be a really bad idea here. (And I wanna see if I have to pay something for the arriving PBK Order next week.)

That also meens, the Little Dragons will just be Part of my Holiday Market Project as Stickers.

I'll send an Update when I have more Infos...


Stay Colorful, everyone!
Akitaya

Hi, Rainbow Friends!

We are allready on 81% of filled out Surveys, thanks for beeing that fast!
When we have 85% together, we have a solid base for placing the order.

I wanted to let you know that I've set some Dates for the Project and that I want to place the Order very soon.

5th September: Locking surveys & charging Cards
Yes, so soon ;)
The Funds from the Campaign, for the Pins itself are carefully laid aside, and so I can order most of the stuff next week.

Don't worry if your Survey isn't filled out untill then, or your card fails, you will get more time.
Locking Orders & Locking Adresses will happen when we come closer to shipping.


In case you missed the Campaign and want to PreOrder, here's the Link:

Little Dragon's Pride - PreOrder Store

(PreOrder Store stays open untill End of September.)


Colorful Regards,
Akitaya

Hi Rainbowfriends!

The Survey successfully passed the review and that means:
It's Smoke Test time!
Pre-Order Store also opens soon.

5% of all Backers and at least one Backer per Pledge Level recieves a Pre Survey, that works almost the same as the regular one.
If you recieve one and find an issue, please reach out to me so I can fix it before sending out all Surveys.

If all goes well we might be able to send the Dragon Pin in all it's Pride Variants into Produktion arround Mid-End September.

Every Pin Color Variant will be ordered,
Stickers will be ordered more demandly, but therefore they are quick to reorder.





This might the more exciting Part of the Update, with some new Stuff to see:

- All 6 Backer's choise Dragon
- Little Sun & Moon Dragon finished
- Sketches of BIG Sun & Moon Dragon & a Poll to vote for the Winner

Allready published in June...

And Brandnew:

Here again all cute (37!!!) Dragons at once - lil' bit blurry, but a nice overview:




Now to our Sun & Moon Dragon Friend - here are finally the raw Sketches:

Vote fore the Poses "standing" or "flying".
(Flying Pose bases on standing, so the head stayed the same - I really liked how it came out.)
After we have the Pose, I'll add more Sun & Moon Details and show the colorway.

The Winner Dragon will also recieve a Print after it has been vectorized. (Colored Outlines, Light & Shadows and a bit of a light cloudy Background.)
The Prints (A5) will also be available in the Store, I'll add it when it has the details. It will be 12€ on a thicker high quality Paper and will be orderd together with the Stickers later.

When it's about the Pin I'll just order the nescessary amount + a very few more.
But I can reorder more later at this Manu.



Colorful regards,
Akitaya

Hi, Rainbow Friends ;)

Just a short Update:
The Survey is in the works and goes into review next week.
Sorry that it took longer, I had much to do with both Projects, "Pretty Big Kitty" and "The Furball Puppies".

But now we come closer to choose your Dragons!
This time Survey & Pre Order Store will be Little Dragons ONLY, so it should go faster now.





Thats all of the Mini Update

Colorful regards,
Akitaya

Hi, Rainbow Friends!

It became a little quiet arround me, but in the background I'm working on getting all "Little Dragons Pride" & "Pretty Big Kitty" stuff ready. Or with oth other words: I work at two Projects the same time. xD

The Kitty's Files are almost ready for Production, more follows little later.
And also an Update about what comes next ;)


Back to the Dragons!
I've send the File to the Manu to take a first look on the digital Proofs and I wanted to share them with you ;)



Like you can see, they are named with numbers here, 10 already have a digital Proof Version.

#1, the Progress Pride Dragon got It's own mold, but that should be within the budget.

There wasn't any heavy mistakes, but here and there they made their own interpretations of my colors,
in case of the Dragons 3-6.

Most visible it is at #3, the People of Color Dragon, it lost a little contrast at some of the brown tones. But like I said before: It will be corrected.



8 more have been send, here you can see them:
Their Proofs should arrive soon too, but they are parallel doing the corrections from the first Group and it was a long list, so...

Something I really want to have changed is the Area around the horns / hair
(The Dragon with the most contrast to show):


I'll see how it can be changed slightly.



Sorry for the pixel art screenshots. ;D


Surveys should follow arround the 20th July + a few days,
then we should have all the samples in.


Colorful regards,
Akitaya