#OC: cheen yofree

[shirozora-draws]

Feeling a bit insane for taking on this merch project while trying to sruvive work, finish a fic, and continue working on another fic. Have I ever done merch before? ABSOLUTELY NOT. Have I been doing research here and there on vendors and their processes? Absolutely.

The idea is to turn all of them into stickers. Depending on how they turn out, I plan to move forward with the following:

turn the Clan of Three into an acrylic standee with Tatooine and Ossus base options

turn the keldabe kiss and Clan of Two into acrylic charms (test epoxy and holographic options?)

turn the grogu and frog eggs into an acrylic shaker charm

"Live Cheen Reaction" is too niche to do more than make a few stickers for shits & giggles

Still need to order test prints but I hate the "convert to CYMK" step and have been procrastinating. Anyway, that is the progress report on the merch front. Sure is an interesting endeavor.

[trashquisitor-shirozora]

Imagine if our friend Cheen looked at Din and Luke while they were kissing in the rain... 😮

Poor Cheen, torn between sneaking looks over his shoulder at the holodrama happening next to him while muttering, "Kriffing hell, can't believe this is happening to me," and begging for someone to dump him in carbonite. Man's got the worst luck in the galaxy.

[shirozora-draws]

So here we are after a month and a half of sketching out the kind of merch I want to feed my hyperfixation. Not every initial thought survived and I won't touch acrylic standees until a later round, but right now I want to get these done and in my hands by fall of this year.

This is a Brand New Horizon and only intended to be a side project, so bear with me while I figure out how this shit works.

If interested in anything, please fill out this form I slapped together on Google in an hour.

(We'll, uh, revisit art prints at a later date, maybe after I finish Gravity Well and update The Stars)

[shirozora-draws]

Y'ALL.

LOOK WHAT ARRIVED IN THE MAIL TODAY. SPARKLY STICKER SAMPLE, CHARM SAMPLES, LANYARD SAMPLES.

HOWEVER.

ALL THAT AND THEY FUCKED UP THE LANYARDS. I HAVE 10 EACH OF THESE FUCKERS. THEY'RE ALL PRINTED LIKE THIS. ARE YOU SERIOUS. AFTER FOLLOWING THE TEMPLATE AND EVERYTHING, THEY STITCHED THE SIDE THAT SHOULD BE UPSIDE DOWN.

BUT LOOK AT THIS SHIT. THEY'RE SO CUTE. THEY'RE ALL SO CUTE. I LOVE THEM. OMIGOD.

Can't wait to get an explanation from Vograce and can't wait to put the finishing touches on the pop-up shop project.

(also I need a better setup for taking photos fml)

[shirozora-draws]

Options/offerings for the pop-up shop have expanded dramatically and I still have 3 more ideas to walk through to completion (or the trash bin, who knows). They are going on the backburners for now, though, because I need a break from drawing dinluke by... writing dinluke. Makes sense.

[shirozora-draws]

So. l have sample stickers from two different sticker makers. I'm not sure which maker makes the better stickers though one maker has a faster turnaround time than the other. Several of these are going to have additional tweaks and I may do a second test with the ones I'm editing to make sure they're coming out the way I want them to before I move forward with pre-orders.

But seriously, those two keldabe kiss stickers came out SO GODDAMN NICE.

The interest check form has closed, if anyone was wondering. I have a pretty good idea what people who want to buy merch from me wants which is Cheen Yofree being fed up with this Jedi/Mando holodrama haunting his Rodian ass.

[trashquisitor-shirozora]

HE BROKE CONTAINMENT jajajajajajajaaa ok tumblr won't let me include a link in the ask (wtf) but you can find my little offering to glorious dinluke nation, "Luke Skywalker Loves Sand," as the most recent post on my blog. Cheen rolls in for the last two sections :) :)

I read it! What a great pre-ANH fic. I esepcially enjoyed how you described life on Tatooine and the work that went into making the Space Honda Civic (RIP) a proper ship.

Poor Cheen. Wherever he goes, he will get no peace from Din, Luke, or both.

[trashquisitor-shirozora]

Hey Shiro, just a heads up that Cheen made an anonymous cameo in a fic I just wrote. I mean, I didn't intend for it to happen but immediately after writing I was like.... oh yeah, that's our boy. XD XD hope that's ok, if not lmk and I'll make him into a Gungan or something! Anyway, you're a superstar, love your work, inspiration to us all, if I ever met you in person I'd prbly be super weird and starstruck about it, have a beautiful day!!

Hello there! I'm finding this to be absolutely delightful actually and would like to see the passage where he stumbles in and out of the plot!

And thank you for your kind words! Always happy to hear how much y'all enjoy the shenanigans I put out!

[shirozora-draws]

I am so late but I am finally done with the first round of merch that I am satisfied with. I am satisfied and we are rolling forward with this set. Now to send off all of my final sample orders so that I know these are absolutely working and are worth posting to a shop site as pre-orders.

Clan of Three lanyards. I recognize that I could easily turn these into washi tapes if I wanted to. We'll see.

Grogu Baby Crimes. Sticker & acrylic shaker charm. Completely revamped after carrying around the old version as an acrylic shaker charm and deciding it was too unwieldy and, more importantly, not cute enough. This will be a sticker option and an acrylic shaker charm option.

Keldabe kiss - Interstellar version. Matte & holographic sticker.

Keldabe kiss - Tatooine version. Matte & holographic sticker.

Live Cheen Reaction. Sticker. For all the fans of Cheen Yofree, the unluckiest third-wheeling Rodian OC.

Need A Hero. Sticker & acrylic charm. The only thing I'm putting forward with Din's face for now. I wanted something cute.

Clan of Two. Sticker. A straightforward general sticker.

The Battle Couple. Sticker (for now). This was actually designed to be an embroidered patch, but I'm not really there yet. The sticker shape is odd so I might present this as a kiss cut sticker.

Luke on Ossus - no scars. Sticker. For people who don't want scars?

Luke on Ossus - scars. Sticker. I just wanted to doodle a thirst trap, thassit.

The Storm. Sticker (for now). I wanted to make more merch for my fics and might use this template for the other fics in the Dangerous Dreams series.

The Clan of Three. Sticker. This motherfucker held me up for MONTHS. I didn't like the previous full-body version especially after getting several sample stickers so I started over... and then got stuck. For months. But here we are. The final piece of the puzzle.

Limited - Tron. Sticker & acrylic charm. I wanted to make a little Tron merch. The acrylic charm will be double-sided with Tron on one side and Rinzler on the other. Thank god this guy is more or less symmetrical.

Limited - Rinzler. Sticker & acrylic charm. For people who like Rinzler. This will be double-sided with Rinzler on one side and Tron on the other side.

I'm sending off a final round of sample sticker and charm orders so that I can get a feel for the revamped and new designs, and once I'm happy I'll get the pop-up shop up and running.

Round 2, I'm looking at small prints, possibly the embroidered patch, and maybe a Tron|Rinzler standee. Also a sticker for The Suns maybe, possibly also The Stars. What if I did a WarGreymon|BlackWarGreymon charm?????

And now.... we write.