Hey All!
sorry for the few days delay, I've been chatting with the artist, and it definitely looks like we can do the sticker sheets. Im figuring out the format they'll play, though just due to timing we'll likely be getting those designs after the calendar art is finished so that we can get the calendar to production as soon as possible.

he's another finished scene for Ice Cube 

And here is the WIP color of August (i think) (outside of Ice Cube)

(ice cube) WIP Sketch (Jthink July)
(looking at potentially changing the location to a dockside, so we can have a hippocampus and sea lion be a part of the picture)

Thank you all for the support and more art to come as it gets cleaned up and finished!
(also loved some of the ideas for the stickers, I've writing them down for another post to centralize them).
Andreas - Owlbear Caretaker

Continuing with Snap Dragon.
We've got our cherry blossom scene, with all the little critters having a picnic in a meadow.

my main feedback on this (second pass sketch) was to build out more of the back of the shop, with picnic benches, so its more of a meadow in the back.

Also, here is very early interior-view sketch of Ice Cube,

Overall, I like the direction, I was initially torn about this elemental and the one shown on the outside piece being the same; major addition will be a little dragon turtle plushie on the deck (or in the window).
but once things start cleaning up, we'll probably have another tweak.

Stretch Extras
With every calendar we do, typically after 10k we start producing other things to accompany your calendar, in prior years Its been magnets, stickers, bookmarks, coloring books etc. 
We did have an excellent recommendation by one of our backers for event stickers for our calendars, and i would love to hear what sort of events you'd like included? (doing just the text would work, but I'm thinking we could try illustrating little things, like an owlbear with a birthday hat, that says "Happy Birthday!" and doing a few different beasts). Just an idea for now, but curious to what everyone thinks (and what event/creature combos, you guys would love to see). 

Hope everyone had a great weekend!
and thank you all for the support, 
Andreas

Hey All, 
Welcome back to another year of amazing calendars!

Funnily enough, I ran into Selustials when I was looking for cute and cozy creature-food art back in 2011 (for a different food-related project idea). From that, we made a couple of cute little pieces of art (boba owlbear being a favorite). As we came to thinking about what we wanted to do for 2025, I really wanted to try something a little different and go down the route of exploring what a dnd cafe would look like (and Selustials's work was a perfect fit for the idea). 

 

The other thing was that (because I love coffee/tea/and boba), we wanted to showcase all of these different things, which led us to creating a few different locations, that would specialize in different things. (would also let us show off a few different creatures as well).

We finally settled on three for the interior so that we could give each of them a shopfront, an interior, and two focus interior shots, see any familiar characters? :)

Check out Snap Dragon

 

Anyways,
Im super excited to seeing this come to life, I am still open to what sort of extras we can put into the calendar, and would love to see what you guys would be interested in for this calendar. 

Thank you all for the support,
Caretaker Andreas