Lolita Blog Carnival: 5 Print Ideas for 2020!
This week’s lolita blog carnival topic is “5 Prints You Would Be Interested In Seeing Next Year”. There are a few motifs I’ve been wanting to see for a while, so without further ado…
1. Dragons
And when I say dragons, I don’t mean clip art or block prints or sketches from old books that look like the artist has never seen a lizard before, or a japanese dragon water colored on to the sky. I want real, high fantasy, western dragons on mountain tops or castles or sitting on a crystal so big it defies imagination on some alien world with 3 moons in the sky. I want a print with the kind of artwork that trading card game developers pester artists to make for them, and I want it tasteful and classic.
![](https://www.rainedragon.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/71F8aQECwRL._AC_UL320_ML3_-230x300.jpg)
2. Angelic Pretty x Sanrio Little Twin Stars
I know AP and Little twin star collab items exist, but they are pastel with black. It’s such a good situation for a really candy-colored pastel OTT icecream in the sky print and I’m so disappointed that they didn’t go that way with it. I want Kiki and Lala at the carnival with their horse as the merry go round in the clouds with stars and moons and icecream. I want milky planet with 200% more OTT cute sweetness. Like give me something like this, but in Maki’s art style <3
![](https://www.rainedragon.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/little-twin-stars-kiki-lala-thorow-blanket-lap-robe-fleece-blanket-carousel-sanrio-japan-01-300x300.jpg)
3. Red Pandas / Lesser Pandas at the Circus
Ok, imagine one of those really silly imaginary cat circuses. You have little cats in fancy circus clothes. Little cats standing on balls. A little cat taking a nap instead of jumping through a ring. A little cat batting at the ribbons coming out the end of the circus girl’s baton. Picturing it? Now picture the same thing with red pandas.
![](https://www.rainedragon.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/Red_Panda_25193861686-1-300x199.jpg)
4. “Gal Pals”
We have so many prints of people at a ball, but there are always boys, or at least implied boys. I want to see a couple girls on a cute date. Sharing an ice cream float. Adopting a kitten.
![](https://www.rainedragon.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/450bb760-4b4a-5636-9489-06e7305be361.jpeg)
5. The Whole Fruit Salad
I love berry prints, but I’d love to see a whole rainbow of cute fruit on a bright pastel background. Give me limes and lemons and oranges and blueberries and cherries mixed together. Like, fruits parlor, but make it actually rainbow.
![](https://www.rainedragon.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/Fruit-tart-2019-Recipe-500x375-300x225.jpg)
Depending on how it was done, I might be up for a high fantasy Western style dragon print. Even if only for nostalgia’s sake.