There are things I'm having trouble deciding

[capri0mni]

About that mug I promised myself I would finish designing this weekend. I'm going to write my questions out, here, before I toddle off to bed, in the hopes that it will help clear things up tomorrow.

And if you have any thoughts... pretty please?

1. How should I draw my mulitude of whacky bunnies (on the drinker's side of the mug)?
   
   • Should I draw it as a single picture, of everyone together in a room, somehow (as if posing for a family portrait)?
     
   • Or should it be more like a collage: just an arrangement monster bunnies in rows?
     
   • Should the multitude have ten whacky bunnies (So there are a dozen rabbits, total), or twelve (so there are at least a dozen?
   
   
   
2. Should I include the Steinbeck quote on it, or not?
   
   • Should I have any words at all, even?
     
   • Would a paraphrase or spinoff of the original quote be better?

Comments

[jesse_the_k]

1. We rarely see the entire mug canvas, it's always a rolling back and forth thing. So I'm more for options a and b.
2. If you can convey the message without words, do.

[capri0mni]

1. I know; When I signed the closing for this house, the realtor gave me a pair of mugs as a "housewarming gift." The graphic is a little cartoon house in the center of the "canvas" (ceramic?), with the company's motto scrolled in a single long line from edge to edge. The end result is that the central image, the "cute" part, is hardly visable at all -- it's always at right angles to whoever's looking at it, unless you're sitting across from someone who drinks with the mug handle facing themselves. And I don't know anyone who does that. So I'm aiming to push my design to the edges, and leaving the middle more or less blank (if a few bunny tails or blades of grass stray into that region, fine... but nothing that is "information critical."

2. I'm thinking, maybe just a simple label of "plot bunny feed" or something like that... (NaNoWrimo has a mug with "Novelist's fuel" written on it).