Customised Artwork : a portrait on a Mug

The Meubliz Mug !

Last year, i've offered a present to my brother to celebrate his Website success : Meubliz.com (if you want to identify wich antique furniture you have at own and how much you can sell it for / guess who have done the illustrations of the website ?).
And  the present was a customised Mug, furnitures inspired with lot of details inside.

As he was very happy of his mug and did drink lot of tea and coffee inside, he ask me this year to make a customized portrait of a friend on a Mug !

The challenge was set, as it was never done before.

What size and what resolution

First thing i was thinking ofwas the resolution of the picture. Into make my portrait works, it need to be 15 cm high and 15cm wide to give a good rendering of the face i draw. It is directly connected to the sizo of my pen i'm working with.
I'm printing the mug through the web, using the panoramical picture on a mug service. I need to provide a picture of 4400px by 1950px, close to a double square format.

Into keep the original picture small, i've decided to go on a picture of 12 x 27cm hoping the final rendering will work. And it work but it was hard to draw the lines of the face.

Here is the final Original picture

What can i draw inside ?

Halo a game of Peace and Love

As usual, the pictures were accompanied with lot of fun details, with this one who was "we met every 3 months into play Halo on the Xbox as a saturday night party". So was my first representation of a peace and love game based on destruction, missile and machineguns.

King of Waffles

He is the KOW (King of Waffles), so i've pictured up a french chef with "the Toque", a waffle machine and a queue of waffle enthousiasts waiting for the magic result of Wafflemaking.

It's a shame i could'n be able to try theses waffles...i wanted one or more...

Customised mug on a table

Portrait on a Mug

So here it is, a shiny white mug with a continuous little black line on it, and the picture of the Mug Owner. Very custom and very personal mug !

If you want a custom mug, you will have to order an original portrait and i will be able to give a picture to the printing website. You'll receive your mug and your original picture as well.