Emma SanCartier/Odd Fauna - Illustrations/Toy Design
Lesson 12 from: CreativeLive Indie Craft ShowTara McMullin
Emma SanCartier/Odd Fauna - Illustrations/Toy Design
Lesson 12 from: CreativeLive Indie Craft ShowTara McMullin
Lesson Info
12. Emma SanCartier/Odd Fauna - Illustrations/Toy Design
Lessons
Day 1 Pre-Show
04:24 2Wood Thumb - Wooden Ties & Accessories
06:02 3Katy Kristin Designs - Children's Toys & Apparel
06:28 4Unpossible Cuts - Laser Cut Goods
06:09 5Dandy - Jewelry
07:51 6Beija Flor Naturals - Bath and Body
11:04 7Apparel and Fine Art
10:02 8Miso Handmade - Pet Supplies And Pet Gifts
10:41Tina Jett - Art/Illustration
12:00 10Pretty Fun Designs - Jewelry
08:51 11Mahoohoo - Apparel/Accessories
10:38 12Emma SanCartier/Odd Fauna - Illustrations/Toy Design
08:16 13Lazy Lotus - Accessories/Scarves/Earrings
07:07 14Debra Styer - Art & Illustration
08:10 15Nidhi Chinani - Illustrator/Giftware
07:36 16Noteify - Greeting Cards, Accessories, Houseware
09:31 17Day 1 Wrap-Up
01:19Lesson Info
Emma SanCartier/Odd Fauna - Illustrations/Toy Design
we are going to meet our next artist. Emma. Hi, beautiful. Emma, some nice to meet you. Nice to meet you. Yeah, let us know your name and the name of your business. I am a San Carty and I have a business called Odd Fauna. Donna. That mean on Hana Afanah? Strange creatures that exist in this world that I've created with different illustrations and also sculptures that I hadn't make myself. Okay, So how long have you been an artist? Uh, I've been interested in art since I was a little kid. Um, and then I went to art school for illustration. Um, and I guess I've been working freelance as an illustrator for about seven years, and I just started doing shows and having an online store about four years ago. Okay, so those four years quite an evolution. Yeah, definitely in a process about the process. Well, I started, uh, you know, I started my online Etsy store about four years ago, where I was just selling Prince, um, and with the sculptures, I started hand making little sculptures that were...
just based off of characters that I was illustrating. And so they kind of evolved from there, I learned how Teoh how to create them, using molds like how to reproduce them myself. And so there's a lot of trial and error with that, Um, and so now I finally figured out my process. Yes, I'm able t make them all in my studio. And right now, I also I found a really wonderful caster in the East Bay who helps me out with the resin casting, which is the larger guys. How did you meet them? Um, actually, I did a Kickstarter for a sculpture last year. I wanted to kind of expand my business a little bit. Wanted Teoh basically take a little bit of the weight off me, creating everything myself, and I wanted to get somebody to help me with casting a sculpture. I just reached out, and I found this person randomly. It's turned into a wonderful working relationship. It's like, really nice feel to pass off some of the work on this somebody that you know that you can I can go to his workshop and see, you know, the entire process, you know? Yeah, it's good to know that person, and it's like a you know, just sending it off to a factory somewhere. Have somebody that I can, you know, go and meet up with and talk about different ideas that I have for, you know, like I made the sculptures myself. But then, you know, coming up with different color ideas and variations. Like right now I have a new one that it's cold Cath bronze. Okay, which is that's a new in that he just wait. Yeah, it's a really interesting process that it's resin, but then it's Bronx powder that's mixed in, and then it's bettin it afterwards. It looks new, but it has kind of this age. Look to it e s. So I mean, it's just been nice working with somebody that, you know, I could just bounce ideas off of. And then, you know, he can, you know, create exactly what I'm. And I find it interesting that you met them on Kickstarter. We actually have a Kickstarter workshop coming up on creative life. So it's a topic that a lot of people are talking about about that crowd. What, you call it crowdfunding. Yes, it was a great experience, actually. Did a second Kickstarter this past year for a book of all of my beast illustrations in a book called Upon a Little Book of Beasts. My Mom and So It's just a collection of all the all the illustrations that I've been creating over the last couple years. And again, it was a great experience. Like I think that as an artist, having a research like that is just really It's really wonderful. And you can you don't have to worry about finding a publisher and then having somebody, you know, kind of infiltrating the creative process, have full creative control over everything. And then you have people to kind of back the project for you. That's great. How do you keep being re inspired as an artist? How do you keep that? That that I don't know. I find inspiration in a lot of different things. I mean, I love to read, and I love Teoh. Just, you know, just explore different things around the city. I find inspiration, just keeping your eyes open and your eyes open on. Then I guess relating it back, Teoh, Uh, how you express that? Yeah. Yeah, even just like human interaction. Sometimes. Like, you know, with some of my illustrations. I mean, they're monsters. But then sometimes I'll have an interaction with somebody like that would make a funny little comic, you know? Yeah. So who is your ideal customer than I don't know everything. I have a really broad range of people that that are in my work. Well, you know what I see when I look at some of the odd fauna designed with beasts and the creatures, I think I see some of them as being a a really cool adornment and a great gift for, like, a boss or a colleague kind of lightening up and live in an environment. Yeah. I like to get the little sculptures and have them on their people. Send me pictures of them by their monitors, although a lot of people start to collect them. So they have a whole little lineup of little beasts. Oh, my gosh. Do they have names and story? Yes. I hang todo eso like the big guy's name is Novak. And he's one of those characters characters that kind of keeps recurring. And my illustrations hang, You know, they all kind of find themselves in. Um well, like in the book that I just did as a Kickstarter. There's a lot of the characters that are sculptures that have found themselves, you know, being created as little stories and feel like that. You find yourself being a writer than as well. Oh, are that words with there's new words. It's tries told in pictures. Mainly, Yeah, that's cool. It's interesting just to hear, you know, maybe even I don't know what your future looks like. I mean, are you considering doing more illustrations? Yeah, Well, I do have a kids book that I did a few years ago called The World Is Your Oyster. And that was kind of my first published book. All right, so, yeah, I would love to do more more books like that, and, uh uh, yeah, yeah. I mean, I'm constantly taking on you freelance jobs. So talk through some of these pieces. We just kind of went over there. But what about these illustration? Um, Prince? Well, some of them, I mean so, like, there's the beast illustrations. This is one of the newer ones that is in the book. Doesn't look like much of a beast. It is kind of He's like, where all the beasts live in their little Okay, um, and then some of the prints that are, you know, directly on funding characters like There's Little Red Riding Hood. And there's a lot of pieces that are inspired by, um, by fairy tales and mythology, like I did a few Siri's a few years ago where, you know, I just, you know, decided to illustrate a bunch of stories that I really loved as a kid and have sort of, like, Revisited. And, um and so the inspiration for those came into that Yeah, that's fantastic. So yeah, So when people buy this, is it something that they will then frame and put on the wall or Yeah, there's lots of different ways that they use that I love that your customers send you a photo. Yeah, wear that all of the customers. But sometimes they do, and they're like, you know, this guy's living over here, but it doesn't inform you, though, as an artist to where your heart lives. Yeah, right. You find a really inspiring when people should, like, take the time to actually show me that they're enjoying what they've purchased. I have some great customers that when I open up a conversation. Fantastic. So, uh, where can we find her online? Or do you have a shop? I haven't. Online store ad, wanna dot com and, uh, confined. Most of my work there on the book that I recently did as a Kickstarter will be available in my shop ASEAN, in November. Look out for that at the end of November. OK? Well, it was such a pleasure to meet you, and it's so great to get to know you and I love your artist story.