Literary Critters || Enamel Pin Collection

Hello!

Alright I'm back with our next unlock. I don't know if we'll fund this high, so unless we jump up in total then I'm probably not going to do more designs (just the quicksand). But if we hit 5k then I will!



Our next design is back on brand with childhood nostalgia, and its Thowra from the Silver Brumby series. This is a standard size design, we're going for rose gold (I think the yellow would wash out the coat colour) although our manu's rose gold runs more coppery. Its hard to preview! This one will be 2" size with screen printed details. I don't draw horses super often, I think it came out way more cutesy than I anticipated, buuuut it doesn't not fit with the rest.

I loved this series. I loved the fact I constantly had to look up new animals because I had no idea what they were. I picked it up because my friend's Mum borrowed my copy of Fire Bringer (Rannoch is also on my list, I think we might have to do another round of these lmao) and was not very impressed, so she recommended these instead. I was never a big horse girlie, but I loved them all the same. Also I did some research and apparently the author confirmed she always intended they had the palomino coat so that's what I went with, its definitely the colouring they used for the animated series.

Check out the new poll, its to vote on which sticker you guys want for the prelaunch freebie. Those three are the ones I can best turn into special effect stickers. For Donut/Mongo, the feathers and some of the detailing would have a holo effect. For the firelizard, the whole sticker would have a metallic golden sheen. And for Martin, I'd make the background of the windows have the holo effect and not the mouse or the black lines, so he stands out 'in front' a bit. Cast your votes! Leftovers usually end up in the mystery sticker packs or for sale at our holiday sale events :). The summer one is coming up next month.

I'm a good chunk through the work for the quicksand pin, so hopefully our next update will be for that. Stay tuned ~

Hey ~

Sorry for the super late update! I've had a hell of a migraine since we went live.

We funded in under 24 hours! As always, I'm super grateful to everyone who jumped in to support us :).

We are actually nearly at our final unlock, so I have some previews for what comes next.

Our £4500 unlock is;



Sunshine (U-4987) from 'There is no Antimemetics Division'. I know its not one hundred percent on theme, but I really loved this book and its pretty close. This is going to be a 1.5" mini pin, and it will be in the mini pin options pool. Its going to be stained glass with printed details; the light yellow background and the orange middle will both be stained glass effect. The white highlights and the dark orange details will be printed. The metal will be gold, and there will be a single post in the middle.

To say too much about Sunshine would be to give spoilers on a book that is way better if you go in 'blind'. Its a good book, very SCP vibe (for a reason, lmao). I was never into SCPs, I didn't know anything about it before hand, but I had a good time. If existential horror is your vibe, I do recommend this one.

Our £5000 unlock will be going back to the roots of the project, we have Thowra from the Silver Brumby series. He's not done yet, but hopefully I'll have him up in the next day or three :). He'll be in the standard size. Anything we don't fund through the main campaign will be up in the add-on store for extended post campaign stretch goals.

We also have a quicksand pin coming up. This is the super rough draft I put together to check the concept worked;


Based on the Animals of Farthing Wood logo. This was my absolute favourite thing as a kid, I'm gonna do a spotlight when this pin design is done. Right now I'm just tweaking the silhouette to suit my style more, and redoing the wreath so its not just 1:1 from the original artist's work. This is going to be 2-2.5" depending on the manufacturer's recommendations, and it will be black nickel plated. We're hoping to have tiny leaves and blue colourshift quicksand in the back. This quicksand pin is going into the add-on store when its done (there will be a new update) and you'll have to add it to your order individually if you'd like one :). I don't usually show much concept work so... Please go gently T_T.

After that it entirely depends where we are! The next book on the roster after the Silver Brumby is Tailchaser's Song, but I haven't decided who to do. We'll see if we get that far :).

Thank you again everyone for your support so far. Lets see how it goes!