A couple of weeks ago, I had an idea about selling merchandise. I looked through other people’s merchandise online (“the merch”), and I noticed that they usually put their signature character on their products. So before I got started on creating merchandise, I started skeching some ideas of signature characters. But I didn’t have a lot of interesting ideas, and that’s when I remembered the drawing some kind of Yeti- Bigfoot- cute things earlier, and I thought: JACKPOT! The perfect signature character!
I then traced the little characters in the app ProCreate on my iPad. When I was done, I realized that the characters were missing something. Suddenly, I knew what was missing: my signature characters names. I still didn’t have a clue about what they where! So I did some research about Yetis, but then I realized that my characters didn’t look quite like Yetis. They looked like Wookies! If you don’t know what Wookies are, they are a type of animal that is in the Star Wars world. My creatures didn’t look exactly like Wookies too, because they where a lot cuter than Wookies. So then I had a brilliant idea: I took the first letter in the word “Cute”, and put it instead of the the letter W in the word “Wookies”. So the new name for my signature characters was “Cookies”! I was very pleased with myself, and I started giving personal names to the Cookies. My main Cookie’s name is Cherry. You can see her at the top of my website holding a cherry. Eventually, I made up more names for my other Cookies. They are: Cream, Puff, Coco and Chip.
Later I also made up their personalities. Cherry is very good at expressing her emotions, and is very confident. Cream loves making fun of Coco. They are twins, and Coco wishes she had never met Cream in the first place. Puff loves to eat. If he could, he would eat chocolate, whipped cream, and raspberries for breakfast, lunch and dinner. Chip is very quiet, and has a teeny-weeny crush on Cherry. He wishes he could express his feelings like her. Generally, most of them get along well. Oops! I almost forgot to mention Cream’s and Coco’s cat, Straw. Straw loves fishy crackers and would jump off a cliff just to taste a bite of one. He loves all the Cookies very much, and loves all the new people he meets, including you!
This is the end of this post, and please make sure to check out my new merch, featuring the Cookies!