Sun Eaters
A doodle. A grin. A giant cosmic worm.
Sun Eater began as a sketch over before evolving into one of the first true species of The Canis. This is how a bedtime doodle became mythology, original art, and sustainable streetwear.
I honestly have no idea why I put that doodle on a tee.
It must be his stupid grinning face.
He makes me laugh.
No one knew that this 11pm doodle, would become a species, a force of nature.
“I ate the sun, but I’m sorry!”
Star Maggots
Attracted to dying or unstable light.
They only know one way to solve a problem.
No world, no problem.
I almost deleted it
When I started the shop with my 20 year old teenage art, I knew they were characters, I knew there was a world.
The world just hadn't revealed itself yet.
While every other brand is doing back prints, sleeve prints and full-garment graphics,
I'm drawing star maggots.
Sun Eater is no longer a drawing
He’s a giant cosmic worm.
He cleans up.
He might eat our sun.
But he’ll definitely apologise after.
Let the design breathe
Inhale, hum, bark. (if you know, you know)
That's the transition from illustration to mythology.
I’m having so much fun. There aren’t enough hours in the day.
Though this heatwave is making me, question things. Maybe he should eat it…
How To Confuse Any Algorithm
Building a sustainable streetwear brand around mythology, comics, worldbuilding and long-form storytelling. Apparently algorithms dislike this.
This is Logic, communicating through the medium of vintage advertising.
Build a sustainable streetwear indie brand where there is long-form storytelling, TCG’s, gaming, mythology, characters, conditions, tokens, comics, art. And your audience is scattered like crabs.
Ta-dah. Confusion says when in doubt, climb tree.
I know I should care more
It’s very hard to do that.
I am too busy having fun building The Canis.
It’ll catch up eventually.
Does it hurt?
Yes.
Spending 3 hours developing reels, like one quoting Crabulon which then gets delivered to 38 people, is kinda brutal.
I’m not going to lie.
Expecting the algorithm to promote “Arise my mighty pink army, Attack!” which incidentally are lyrics from one of the funniest songs on the planet, is also borderline lunacy.
Don’t panic
It’s not been 12 months since I asked you to hold my beer yet.
Conditions, Myths and Cards
The Canis keeps growing. One minute I'm drawing t-shirts, the next I'm designing cards, building mythology and wondering whether a Moon Eater is a terrible idea.
You ever have that wtf have I done moment? How about several of those in a short period? Welcome to my world.
I’m pleased to say nothing is broken. Creativity is flowing.
But I have butterflies the size of chickens in my gut because now I am also a TCG designer.
Classifications in The Canis: Characters, Tokens, Conditions, Entities.
Don’t Panic
As I’ve been building this sustainable streetwear world, I have been thinking about art.
Everything you see on garment or on a physical product, I have dawn myself. In a world increasingly filled with AI-generated imagery, authenticity matters.
Like everyone else, I use AI while developing ideas. The Canis is still young. A couple of months old, give or take. Honestly, I've completely lost track of time
The cards on the site are version one mock-ups. The final thing I know will take longer, I am not even sure if people care enough to want them, so a lot remains to be seen.
I’ve been panicking about TCG’s because, I’d like our cards to be really good.
I've spent enough time around things like D&D and trading card games to know how much work goes into them. I'm not trying to dethrone Pokémon, Magic and D&D. Far from it. If anything, I'm increasingly humbled by the ridiculous amount of effort that goes into building these worlds and systems.
It’s okay, like I said, don’t panic. But I am not going to try sell you version one mock-ups just so you know. Like I said, we’ll do them properly. The same goes for the comics.
Writing The Canis
Everything is completely intertwined with The Canis, I move when it moves.
From writing the mythology to character development, it genuinely has been unfolding.
Partly through my own reverse engineering genius, and partly through completely strange moments of insight.
Like at midnight last night, suddenly thinking, we have a sun eater, we might as well have a moon eater.
Don’t ask, I have absolutely no idea what that is. (Please not another worm)
Anyway.
Okay, bye
So much to do.