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ILLUSTRATOR PENNY ‘MIN PIN’ FERGUSON
MAKES SOME WEIRD AND WONDERFUL STUFF.
Words Jo Walker Photos Stephanie Rose Wood
Hi, Penny! Tell us a bit about yourself please. I’m an illustration-
and craft-based designer. Making ceramics is a bit like 3D illustration,
and that bleeds into doing textile design as well. I always say my work
is like a mystery animal disco.
How did Min Pin come about? I’d just moved cities from Perth to Melbourne.
I put stuff on Etsy and started getting websites together, and I made a whole
bunch of shrink plastic! Little badges and things – I had a lot of fun with
that – and I was also doing illustrations and making jewellery and selling
prints. Oh, I did the NEIS program as well. I found that really got the
business side of my head more on track.
What’s your illustration process like? I usually paint first or draw something.
I paint everything freehand, but usually in black, and then scan them in,
and then work with them on Photoshop. So, using those shapes, then
cutting and pasting things and layering.
What is this doggy-themed work we can see you’ve been doing? Dog Park
Adventures is a new textile print I’ve been working on. I enjoyed painting the
plants, and putting some florals in. Then I wanted the dogs to be in there.
I painted all of those motifs first, then scanned them in, and put them onto
the MSI modern laptop. I’ve been using Photoshop to play around with the
composition and colours and things like that.
How did you find working on the MSI PS42 modern laptop? Well, I travel quite
a bit. A couple of times a week I catch the train to town, about 45 minutes
each way, and that’s a big chunk of time. I’m always working on a laptop,
and I find the MSI really lightweight – it just feels like I’m carrying a book
around in my bag. Also the battery lasts a really long time. There’s nothing
more annoying than when a computer dies halfway through something!
I am safe from that. Also: the screen quality is very bright and clean.
What do you love about what you do? I love the amount of love that I get to
experience! So, I really love illustration and design. I love colour and I love
cute things. I’m so glad that I get to, for my job, create things that spread
that love. I feel like it’s a very positive thing. Although there’s a lot of
stress and deadlines and uncertainty sometimes, I feel like the base
of it is really exciting and positive.