Warning: Cthulhu Ahead! - Rehashing a Popular Design

Long time no post...

I've not posted here in an awfully long time but I've had something of a busy year, lets hope I manage a bit better this year.

So, to kick things off here's a look at the two most recent designs I've posted to Zazzle.
My best selling design by far in the last year was the same "Eat Sleep Cthulhu" design I posted about before. Where a be-tentacled Elder Thing breaks loose from the confines of its box putting stick-men in peril.
As you can see the most interesting part of the image takes up less than a third of the available printing area. I wanted to recycle the design, taking more advantage of the space available to me and making my Great Old One the centerpiece.

I still wanted a box or border for the tentacles to spill out of, as well as a text block to break off. Since I've been learning to drive I took inspiration from hazard warning signs. A big red triangle for tentacles to spill out over and an information board to rip off and flail about.

I created the new design elements and since my original design was a vector graphic, simply rescaled the monster to fit. Then it was a case of minor adjustments to the positioning of the elements, changing the colour scheme and adding a few more tentacles here and there to balance it out and fill white space.

While the red triangle is almost universally used throughout Europe other countries (such as the United States) use a yellow diamond to indicate a hazard. Yellow diamonds are also used in a broader context as warning labels. So, a variant design was born. The thin black border on the yellow diamond was too narrow to give good contrast to the tentacles, for this reason I decided to preserve the rounded box 'border' from the original design.

T-shirts, mugs, stickers, etc. with these designs "Warning: Cthulhu!(UK)" and "Warning: Cthulhu!" are available through Zazzle.com.