Hey everyone ~

Whew, that took a little longer than I expected. But! Hopefully its worth it. 

So here's the standard size and the large size previews side by side. The standard size (left) might need to be simplified further, based on recommendations by the manufacturer. But this is roughly what we'd be looking at;

So standard size is 2" vs large size at 2.5". The veining pattern might need to be simplified further, but I didn't want to draw it out again if its not needed (large is winning the poll right now, make sure you vote below!). Standard has one less layer of shading overall, and a few fewer details here and there. The veining won't have any shading, and overall the look will be flatter; and they might ask us to fill in a few more suckers with metal rather than enamel. We're going for copper/rose gold finish on this one, because I think the gold wouldn't show up so well against the octopus colours. The fade is achieved with print, it'll be the same technique we used on our fade iris and sweet pea flower pins, plus the same screen print layering as with the skulls;

Not the best photos, please forgive me. We've found our maufacturer to have very high quality results with print so far. I know that puts some people off, so just putting it out there. Also with the skulls, on the left is a 1.75" and on the right is a 2.5". You can see the difference in size and the level of detail we managed to get in each.

The poll has three days left, after that we'll announce the winner and how to add large pins to your order if it does win. If not then it'll just be in the same standard pool as the others :). 

Stay tuned! We still have the mini pin for this tier, and maybe a few more surprises.