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Kit Lit - Xhuuya Designs

Designer, creative, artist working with local and independent bookstores and book lovers in general.

16/03/2024

A late, late gift for my wonderful sister-in-law. It was intended to be a Christmas gift but the holidays plus losing my grandfather recently has been really hard on the ol art motivation.

I mostly have been losing myself in Sun Haven lately. Maybe I'll do some art for that in between pets!

Thanks for checkin it out!

16/12/2023

Pirate kitty!

Another one of the saved cats that i came across on socials. I wanted to do a few and asked a few people to help me decide. the one-eyed kitty won over a gorgeous calico that might also still get painted.

Much love and a happy to everyone!

04/12/2023

I'm trying.

Socials have always been sorta difficult for me. I'm not gonna set any hard and fast rules on myself, and maybe this time I can actually stick with it, but we shall see. I've built a system of sorts to try and work with my ADHD (unmedicated as I am) to try and help, and I am probably going to reach out to my psychiatrist soon about getting Vyvanse again cause it was super helpful.

I have a few recent pics to share with you (I set a few up before I started posting again, cause I know how I am)! A mix of shelter and rescue cats, and some randomly off social media (I've since gotten better about noting who it is and who posted it but I don't remember this one unfortunately)

Thanks for sticking around if you have! And welcome if you're new!

Lemme know what you think!

25/11/2023

“Grief changes shape, but it never ends.”

A painting done to ease an immense sadness as Rachel Anne Puwc had to say goodnight to their sweet Abby. I’d only met her a few times, but my heart aches at the loss.

A sad post but a painting that was somewhat cathartic.

18/11/2023

Just a little thing this week. A couple of angy kitties!

10/11/2023

It sure has been a while, hasn’t it?

I still do a bit of this and that l, especially for bookstores that work with me, but I’ve found that art for the past few months, years even, has been really difficult again. I lost my love for it, I lost my confidence, and I just couldn’t keep going with it.

I’ve recently gotten back into it, doing projects for myself and finding it far more relaxing than I had before. I’m still trying to balance simplifying yet increasing my styles details. I just need to stay patient and try my hardest to suppress the constant desire for perfection.

I’m not quite in a spot that I can offer commissions again I think, but maybe I’ll be there again soon.

If you’d like to throw a few coins in the hat:

https://ko-fi.com/xhuuya

21/03/2023

So.

What I've been working on?

Completely changing my approach to my business.

As I've mentioned recently, a lot of my desire to do pet portraits and most of my art (versus design, they are different ya know?) has been somewhat destroyed by the recent AI trends. Instagram and different platforms constantly advertise it to me, push it, and I see people charge nearly nothing for it. Realistically, design can be very expensive in both time and materials, and I can't just...do that. It doesn't sit right with me in any way really.

Aside from AI and the lack of ability I have to control it's presence in art, I also have struggled these last few years with a few things that have made it difficult for me to see success. A lack of focus due to both ADHD and my inability to believe that I can't do Everything somehow. The amount the people around me have to hear "I can probably do that too" is terrible. I've had to be realistic with myself, to stop that voice, to remember why I want to do this and the things that actually work for me (especially when I consider my mental strengths and weaknesses)

What have I been doing Consistently? Selling to bookstores, making designs for bookstores, creating stickers and merch to sell wholesale! So I'm going to focus on that! Expand what I know and what I've really enjoyed doing!

Plus, you know me, and books are a big part of my life! We don't have a library for nothin!

I've had to be a bit realistic in a few key things though: my logo is a an old one, connected to my love of foxes, but doesn't really do anything for the new direction. The name is also difficult to pronounce or remember for most (not exactly ideal for business right?)

So the name change (wow Dylan, how come you get TWO name changes- a bit of humor for those of you that know me there)

A new logo to match more with the new name too. Might still be a bit of a work in progress, but I think I like the direction.

If you drop by and check it out, I apologize for the fact that it's in a bit of a shift here and there, but I'm working on getting everything together!

I appreciate all of you. Those of you that have been around since the beginning, and stay around still as I always go about shaking things up. Can't let it get boring and all that, right?

Love you all! More to come soon.

Let me know if you want to see some progress shots of my process for logo concepts and designing materials!

17/02/2023

Hey y'all,

A long overdue update.

I’m trying to get my Etsy back up and going, wondering about my Kofi and whether I should do that too, and trying to balance what I want from an entire rebrand and website overhaul.

I’m tired of all the AI art in animal portraits. I feel so...tired. That's the only word that comes to mind that encompasses all of it in a general sense. I put so many hours into them only for some ai program to churn one out in seconds and for it to blow up on instagram or wherever. I get accused of doing it when I try to promote my artwork legitimately done through hard work, and get my requests to share taken down for it. You can show your work, record it in every step, even record it on video, and still people will report you instead of the accounts actually cranking out ai art constantly.

I’m over it. I’m done with them.

I’m going back to more graphic design and focusing primarily on book inspired designs and helping independent bookstores specifically. It's what I want to do and what I've been doing for years with some local businesses, and it's always been the most fulfilling thing for me.

So when I start to share my stuff for that? Any shares and follows (even if not buying anything or if you don’t read or whatever) would be super appreciated.

Thank y'all for sticking with me. It's been a weird few years, and I've tried a lot of stuff, and the art world just seems to be constantly changing. It's not always friendly changes sadly, but I'm trying to roll with it anyway.

Much love, and another update soon.

07/12/2022

I forgot to post the finished Tommy Tutone from ! But here he is! He got adopted last month!

Such a handsome kitty.
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13/11/2022

Another WIP of this handsome boy, Tommy.

Was hoping to be done faster but I’ve actually stopped myself rushing a few times now, and committed to enjoying the process.

The fuzzening continues!
I’ve been on Mastodon lately and honestly being authentic and not fighting a damn algorithm has reminded me of better times on the internet, but for the sake of all these other sites…
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01/11/2022

Guess who is starting to do kitty art from again!? 😺😺

This is Tommy Tutone who I got to see and love on when visiting with recently! Someone should get him and his bonded brother REO Speedwagon! They’re wonderful little beebs

Hope you like it! It’s the beginning stages and I’ll show progress as I complete more 😺

I’ll of course try to be posting more in general too.

Much love y’all!
-xhu

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https://xhuuyadesigns.faire.com/

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