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Celebrating 5 Years!

Updated: Aug 4, 2020

Hello there everyone! It's been quite a while since I've written a blog post, but I'd like to keep up with it once again, especially now that our site has been renovated to be its own store front! We've gone through quite a few changes recently, and in general, and I thought that it might be a good place to start to reflect on that!


Last month in July, Atomik Cupcake Designs celebrated its fifth year as an online business! We've come an extremely long way, and I hope you'll join me in this journey through its history--happy birthday, business!


OUR HUMBLE BEGINNINGS:

Our very first logo!


At the time, I didn't really have a clear idea of where I wanted the business to go, only that I wanted to sell my illustrations online. My first aspiration to open a store on Etsy came with the design pictured to the left--this is the humanatee!


The humanatee started as a funny idea that I talked with my parents about, of a manatee who was also part human. They thought the illustration was hilarious! I only sold a couple of these shirts, mostly to friends and family, but the humanatee was the starting point for our humble beginnings and encouraged me to keep creating.



KAWAII INSPIRATION


Though a lot of my illustrations are influenced by my career as a tattoo artist and my background as a pencil artist, I've also always been a fan of kawaii-style art and anime. I ended up pursuing my long-term desire to go to college for graphic design around the time that I created Atomik Cupcake Designs, and I learned the absolute magic of how to use Adobe Illustrator, which opened up a whole new world of how to approach making kawaii-style art! As I became more comfortable with digital art, I wanted to learn how to simplify my art into this style. The first kawaii-inspired design was the "I'm Pho-King Awesome" t-shirt, which actually sold really well! (It made me wish I was more adept at making an Etsy store, because I bet if I had more items, the success of this design would have brought a lot of traction to my new store...heh...)