Baby Bunny Bib

It has become a tradition of mine (sort of) to make a baby bib for the newborn child of my friends.  I have posted pictures of them before.  I started off with hippos and moved on to baby bear cubs.

The newest addition to my friends' family is a baby girl named Brianna.  So, I started to think of animals beginning with "B" and certainly a bunny came to mind.  I could have done something else, a baby Bumble Bee, or a female Baby Bear, but when the happy new mom and dad sent out their announcement photo-postcard, what kind of stuffed animal was sitting beside the newborn?  You guessed it, a bunny.  So, it seemed only proper that I make a bunny bib.

In the past I have added speech balloons and spent time doing a tri-tone shadowing effect.  I find that this is wasted effort.  I order the bibs through Cafepress.com and I find it best to make the graphic the best size and dimensions to best fit the product.  So, speech balloons, while cute, can be a waste of space.  And in the past, I have found that keeping the colors and color separations simple work best for doing the kind of direct-to-product printing that they do.  So, just black, yellow, red, and gray.  That is it.  I hand drew the image in non-reproducing blue pencil, then inked it with brush and sumi ink, scanned it, and colored it digitally.  Uploaded to Cafe Press and shipped directly to baby.