This was a project my friend Pam and I were working on... and off... and on... and off. It never took off because it was never really decided what Sugar Nyao should be: is it artwork? A cute clothing line? Concept design for a game app? A webcomic? We thought of doing a kickstarter to make prints and shirts. We had a cute story developed for the cupcats and the human mascots, Sugar (with purple hair) and Nyao (with turquoise hair). I was really excited about this because I would be drawing again and I wanted to see if we could be the lucky few to get stuff like this off the ground.
So what happened? We got busy with life. Pam and her hubby, Joel, welcomed their first child and I was transitioning into a new job as well as graduating from the Art Institute of Pittsburgh (Online Division). The project was never put on hold. It just lost steam.
One good thing about the downtime was that I got familiar with Illustrator. My god, vector makes everything so much easier. I was doing the previous stuff in Photoshop but I was spending too much time faking it to look like vector with the Paths and Pen Tool. So, instead of feeling bummed about Sugar Nyao, I decided to do it as a little art project for myself. The cupcat design is not original obviously but I wanted to do something fun with it.
