At long last..?

Now don't get me wrong I have had a go with various shop systems from Shopify to BigCommerce and so on but truth is you pay through the nose for little result despite what the influencers say. The Internet is full of them right? "I made a trillion dollars by selling old tosh I bought from eBay" and so on - you know where I am right?

So I built my own using my own bespoke Content Management System I lovingly named HYDRA. To put you in the picture (if you'll pardon the pun) as well as an illustrator my main activity is running a tech company with my two business partners namely Cirrus Design Studio Ltd. that said - if you like what you see pop over to Cirrus and get in touch. 

This site uses LEMON SQUEEZY to process payments securely which has some excellent integration API for bespoke website systems namely this one!

Enough of the pitch! Back to the other hard sell...

So as I was saying I dwelt on the whole selling my artwork for years and never really thought it through nor acted on the idea when suddenly I thought to myself - hold on - I am a programmer and own a web company and I am an illustrator and do my own pictures so... why not combine the two and see if I can sell prints online!

Pixart is an old, old name I first brought many, many years ago when online was essentially two baked bean tins and string. I owned another domain named pixart.* but along cam Disney and said I could have it for $(insert big number) so aside form selling a kidney and everyone else's kidney I traded it out and didn't buy the current domain for many years - until recently - and pixart.website was born.

So what's it all about?

I do planes... more exactly cartoon planes. I make them up. there's no source nor process nor an exact science in it I just scribble what I fancy and to me it's like catnip to a cat. The style, I am told is kind of like "Chibi"... It's Japanese - here's what Wikipedia says about Chibi:

"Chibi, also known as super deformation (SD), is an art style originating in Japan, and common in anime and manga where characters are drawn in an exaggerated way, typically small and chubby with stubby limbs, oversized eyes, oversized heads, tiny noses, tiny bodies, and minimal detail. The style has found its way into the anime and manga fandom through its usage in manga works and merchandising."

That's as far as that goes suffice to say I love detail so my planes may be the sole survivors of a dawn raid on Greggs pasties but they also boast much detail.

My initial aim was to stock and sell as limited edition prints and provide them on a range of items from mugs to t-shirts and so on but then I figured they mostly suited wall art and elected to create my store selling the digital masters so anyone can buy them and take them to a printer to have them put on whatever takes their fancy. It simple, doesn't cost shipping, instant and above all for you the buyer - cheap! Digital artwork to download even at the highest price is rarely more than a few pounds so you can have quality artwork by me up and on your wall the way you want at minimal costs.

When I know more - you'll know more: keep your eyes on the Pixart Blog!