a blog a la canaga

Hi there! I'm a digital artist, enjoyer of things, and small business owner. You can find my work at www.artstation.com/kcanaga, and my business at www.foundfamilyadventurecrafts.com.

[canagadoodles]

My pride and joy! I am putting on a Kickstarter campaign for a deck of hand-illustrated playing cards, featuring my favorite little guy: the kobold. Shares and boosts are SO appreciated to help me bring this project to life.

[Kickstarter is LIVE NOW until June 2nd!]

The deck is standard poker sized, & fully custom front to back, with cavern-friendly pips and 55 cards (includes 2 jokers & an ID card).

You can also grab some special add-ons, including this goofy sticker sheet starring the jokers, aces & pips

And twelve 3D printable kobold models from my wondrous catalogue of little guys! (This is a digital reward).

That's all folks! Thank you for looking at these weird creatures!

[canagadoodles]

4 HOURS LEFT!!!!

I sprained my ankle so bad today so everyone should buy kobold cards to make me feel better

[canagadoodles]

Happy Pride Month! I collaborated with the talented and beautiful @mollyjames to bring you GIRLS, GIRLS, GIRLS! (Fairy Tale cuties edition!) The characters are designed by Molly and sculpted by myself, themed around a storybook tale of curses, princesses and a very loyal knight.

Grab the digital files on MyMiniFactory, and the physical miniatures in my store. You can also support me via MMF Tribes, or my Patreon. I really appreciate it!

[canagadoodles]

In action!

[canagadoodles]

Happy Pride Month! I collaborated with the talented and beautiful @mollyjames to bring you GIRLS, GIRLS, GIRLS! (Fairy Tale cuties edition!) The characters are designed by Molly and sculpted by myself, themed around a storybook tale of curses, princesses and a very loyal knight.

Grab the digital files on MyMiniFactory, and the physical miniatures in my store. You can also support me via MMF Tribes, or my Patreon. I really appreciate it!

[canagadoodles]

My pride and joy! I am putting on a Kickstarter campaign for a deck of hand-illustrated playing cards, featuring my favorite little guy: the kobold. Shares and boosts are SO appreciated to help me bring this project to life.

[Kickstarter is LIVE NOW until June 2nd!]

The deck is standard poker sized, & fully custom front to back, with cavern-friendly pips and 55 cards (includes 2 jokers & an ID card).

You can also grab some special add-ons, including this goofy sticker sheet starring the jokers, aces & pips

And twelve 3D printable kobold models from my wondrous catalogue of little guys! (This is a digital reward).

That's all folks! Thank you for looking at these weird creatures!

[canagadoodles]

This reel flopped on Instagram and me and @captainwolfstar5 worked too hard on it for me to not cross-post it and make everyone watch this stupid video.

This is a campy video promoting my deck of kobold playing cards, starring silly little guys! Here’s a little teaser - I’ll be posting more about it soon. Check it out! The Kickstarter launches May 5th.

[mollyjames]

Had a lovely afternoon learning to paint minifigs for the first time with @canagadoodles !

[caitmayart]

do you have any advice on how to shop on Etsy now that it's so massively screwed up? or is it officially time to bail? I was trying get something for my cousin for xmas and the horrific awfulness of the ai slop and straight up fake advertising ruined my spirits. is there still hope for small artists? how do you find them amidst the terrors? 😅

Honestly, I'm not sure. What I would do is find artists you like and then follow their website links to THEIR etsy. I think surfing the site itself for new people is really difficult...

I suppose you could always find a shop and then verify their socmed and website? It involves a lot more steps than it used to but it makes a world of difference for small businesses/independent artists.

I'm so sorry, I wish there was more I could suggest but etsy has absolutely fallen apart and I don't think there's any coming back :(

[canagadoodles]

There are a few promising sites popping up to help with that!

I’m on marmalade slinging my ttrpg minis. It’s a very new marketplace style artist discovery platform that is individually juried and AI and drop-shipped products are not allowed! It focuses on handmade goods and is small but powerful. For shop owners, the listings there link to your primary store so you can redirect traffic to your etsy, online store etc. Big recommend!

Discover curated handmade and hand designed goods

[canagadoodles]

The case continues! Gravity Falls + point & click adventure game! I was inspired to play with lighting scenarios to showcase shenanigans that the twins could get into throughout the game.

[canagadoodles]

I’ve seen lots of new reblogs on this old piece and wanted to say thank you! It’s really amazing seeing Gravity Falls still have an impact on culture and holding a special place in people’s hearts (mine included).

I created these pieces in 2014 as an assignment - I’m actually not sure what the original prompt was, but the second part of the assignment was to re-light the piece in two times of day. I wanted to imagine a Gravity Falls point-and-click adventure game where they visit the Oregon Coast and solve a mystery! The PNW coast is my all time favorite happy place.

Conceptually I wanted to put them into an environment that would allow for different items and clues to be retrieved during different parts of the game… So I went a bit farther and instead of just re-lighting, I played with what the twins might be up to as the game progresses. They’re exploring a sea cave, complete with a massive sea lion that obviously needs to be tickled into unblocking the path! I can just imagine the various puzzles in each image: retrieving Dipper’s hat from the Seagull nest, finding the anchor and rope for the sea lion scheme, and of course gearing up to explore under water. Putting visual clues to the cryptid such as big claw marks (and some Bill Cipher easter eggs!) in the composition was also great fun.

I still really like these pieces, all these years later. GF perfectly captures the mossy, earthy goodness of the PNW as well as the kitsch of the coast’s tourist traps (shout out to The Vortex Mystery House and Prehistoric Gardens).

Thanks for liking and reblogging more than a decade later!

[canagadoodles]

My account is still blocked from searching/tags/etc on my business blog @foundfamilyadventurecrafts so I'm posting this here. There's something very bad happening with Small Business, Tech, and Amazon. What else is new?

Links: Bobo Design Studio for Updates & Submitting Information

Arrows Aim Greenhouse + Chroma Rex are putting together a complaint with WA State Attorney General's Office + Templates for complaints / opt out

Articles:

Amazon's Buy For Me Information Page

Reuters Article

Ars Technica Article

Business Insider Article

[canagadoodles]

It’s the final week of the Kobold Brawl Kickstarter!

As of right now you can pledge to get a 64pc kobold miniature + chess base set printed in high resolution colored resin, 85+ 3D printable STLs, an illustrated dungeon map, hundreds of tabletop tokens, coloring pages, 5e stat blocks and more. Check it out!

My business account @foundfamilyadventurecrafts is still restricted with no email response from @staff after many moons since my support ticket and followups, so any shares are so, so appreciated.

[video id: a fighting game style screen showing all of the kobolds in the new miniatures set, which are based off of chess pieces and classic dungeon monster mischief. The characters spin as the “character select” cursor changes which kobold is being displayed. the kobold brawl logo is prominent, with text reading “TTRPG minis / 75+ STLs / chess set / 350+ VTT tokens / and more”. /end id.]

Kobold Brawl! 3D Printable TTRPG Miniatures + Chess Set

Cute chess-inspired kobold minis great for painting, gaming and D&D / TTRPGs. Plus, grab the entire catalogue of FFAcrafts kobold STLs!

[canagadoodles]

HI GUYS. So, my blog @foundfamilyadventurecrafts has been restricted for *checks watch* multiple years. I had just accepted that my art was Not A Hit on this website, but as it turns out I'm legitimately just invisible unless you manually go to my business account's blog. Not great.

I'm pretty bummed about the whole thing (and embarrassed after having not really caught on after all this time). Hopefully it'll be fixed some time this year, but until then: hi! I run a solo artist business making weird, cute, silly, cartoony TTRPG/DND miniatures and if YOU like what I do, I'd love if you could check out my work. I just launched my second Kickstarter today - Kobold Brawl - that features a metric ton of stupid little guys. <- click the link to go to there!

If you like kobolds, playing games online or in-person, painting little guys, or even looking at and handling physical facsimiles of tiny creatures, this one's for you.

Links to my stuff! You can buy physical printed minis in resin, the 3d files to print your own, or support me on Patreon.

mini shop | 3d files shop | join my patreon to support my art!

THANK YOU, a humble kobold

[foundfamilyadventurecrafts]

WOOO!! The Kickstarter is FUNDED!

We're getting into stretch goals now! If you're a fan of cute, quirky D&D content, this is the project for you. I've got tons of models, VTT tokens, and even maps.

Please consider sharing (or pledging!) so that I can knock out the rest of my stretch goals and release more little guys into the world! Thank you! <3

==> Take Me To The Kickstarter

[foundfamilyadventurecrafts]

My VERY FIRST Kickstarter!! I'm seriously so excited. I've whipped up over 80 models and you can get the 3D print files, physical printed minis, or tons and tons of VTT tokens and maps for online or in-person gaming.

And look at this freaking awesome guest model by @absolutecreaturevibes I cannot even. She's perfect.

It's live now! If you'd like to support me, a share would be SO appreciated!

[dungeonclown]

All of my free Dimension 20 fan sculpts are painted!!!! doing a hairy baby dance about it

id: a video showing three painted, 3d printed sculptures of Dimension 20 characters: mary ann skuttle and baby/wretchrot from Fantasy High, and skip riding handy annie from A Starstruck Odyssey.

[foundfamilyadventurecrafts]

My mainline sculpts this month for Pride!

June's monthly release is Pride in Fantasy! This is a very special bundle to me as a queer creator. I can't possibly represent all symbols and identities of the deeply diverse LGBTQIA+ community, but we can start with four sculpts that I'm so excited to share.

This bundle includes four fantastical figures with symbols of pride.

Celestial Pride Knight: Staunch defender on a cloak of phoenix flames, showing strength resilience in the face of adversity.

Bicorn: Beautiful and fearsome, a classic mythical image of Pride that reminds its foes that there is power in protest and resistance.

Butterfly Ranger: A gynandromorph insectoid ranger with imagery representing the intersex and genderqueer nature of life itself and its many natural variations.

Witch of Aces: A tribute to my best friend and partner in life, a witch repping circular symbols of the ever-changing cycles of life and the aroace spectrum.

Available starting this June on MMF and Patreon, as well as on Only-Games.

[foundfamilyadventurecrafts]

Did some sculpting while watching the Fantasy High season finale tonight! And finally sculpted my first player character. Thank you, Skip, for being perfect.

This model will be available for free on my MMF soon, once I print these cuties out.

[foundfamilyadventurecrafts]

I FULLY forgot to post my Wretchrot/Baby (or Baby Baby) sculpt! He's sized to be a desk pet/dice holder. If you want a Baby of your own, you can find his 3D-printable model for free here!