Cutting Stickers, in real time
Knowing what limits you have and trying to break past them has always been difficult for me. Procrastination is another wall in my way on getting our Studio up and running. No matter how loud the voices are. It’s just plain hard.
Know see what I am capable with a deadline in place for a market, it’s been fun to push harder and still feeling at peace with my progress.
Is this what it’s like to not struggle?
Ahh~ The whirring and gears of ‘older’ tech.
Full video showing the time it takes to cut one of our sticker sheets into individual, matte stickers.
I love the thunk-a-chunk noises my cricut makes. It does give me troubles sometimes but it has earned its living here with us in the studio.
Really not much more to say other than, look forward to the new stickers in shop soon!!!! We have another blog post “Pride~2026” showing off what is to come but a few others are in the Shop tab as far as new merch, coming soon.
Is there anything you guys would like to see as far as behind the scenes in the studio? All is fair game! We haven’t really shown much yet. Comments are welcome~
PRIDE~ 2026!
Getting set up for Pride in St. Joe Missouri has given me a boost needed to get some older designs finished~
Coming soon to a market near you~ Okay… cheesy, but here are some new products that you can find at Pride this weekend (6-26/27-2026). They will also be added to the shop soon as well! Bellow are images of fresh off the press merch~
Getting ready for a Pride market really kicked my butt into gear with finished these WIP that have been on the shelf for over a year… oof. Hurts to type that out, but here we are.
Keychain hangers for Pride Keychain~
The printer we have makes everything look like it has a noise filter when printing matte and honestly, we fucking love it.
Money Shot
I love how detailed my camera can get. The phrases Archer (alter) came up with are great~
On the whole
TADA~ Here is what the product will look like all together~ Designing the card to match what we will hang our buttons from as well was more fun than I thought. Cutting it out, not so much.
Next time, I’m using the cricut.
MLP on the brain
Just recently, we (Astel system and our partner, Chris) went to Whinny City. A ponycon local to Chicago. It was the first time we went to that specific con and because of it, I can’t stop drawing ponies!
This particular design is older but it still holds up to our main style. Reminds me I wanna let loose and do more with sketchy lines for other designs.
Liked the design so much, we made a sticker out of it~
I think my printer was getting tired. They aren’t as vibrant as they should be.
Can’t forget the fanart!
This particular design has been in the works for over a year~ Finally pushing to round out the sticker roster!
WIP ~ The making of
Charlie stickers are in the works! Hope to get them added to the shop soon but they will be available at market this weekend for Pride~
Vaggie Enters the Chat
Another long awaited design by a few fans. She also waited more than a year to be completed. woops~ ‘>w>
Thoughts Under Construction…
Thoughts Under Construction…
Not sure if other artists are as scatterbrained as we are. But when you have multiple souls clamoring for useage of one outside vessel… it can be pretty chaoitc.
This page will more or less be trial and error for the lot of it to have a spot to post that isn’t other social media.
So far, it feels off… Not sure how well the whole site even does but at least we have it.
We miss streaming…
We miss streaming.
Streaming for about 2 years consistently and internet issues forced us to stop.
We miss it.
The partner hopes that we can get better (possibly fiber) internet when we get our house.
{When and if we get our house. HA}
06-17-2026 ARTFIGHT
Artfight is upon us!
We have done Artfight since 2018. It’s been a fun challenge to keep us drawing. Mostly digital but now with our interest back to our sketchbook, it may prove that we can do both this year.
https://artfight.net/~AstelianStudio
I’m personally tired of talking instead of just action so I won’t allow any promises like “A drawing a day” or “Draw for everyone that draws for us”
We will do what we can in the time we have. Market season is sketch as it is. ~Syn