Monthly Archives: October 2009

Oct28

Derby Overlooks 118: Visual Puns

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Derby Overlooks 118: Visual Puns

Sorry for posting this really late, at this point you only have until noon Thursday to vote. =/ This weeks derby theme on Shirt Woot is “Visual Puns”, which has yielded a lot of entries of all different kinds. There are quite a LOT of good entries getting mostly ignored this week and with almost 325 entries I had a lot to go through. I looked through all of the entries and these were the ones I picked that seemed to be sadly overlooked or under voted. There were MANY more good entries I’m not even touching on. These were my favorites not in the top 4, your millage may vary.

I’ll start from the least votes and go up to the most.

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Oct27

Shirt Woot Derby #118: Visual Puns 2

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Shirt Woot Derby #118: Visual Puns 2

Ha ha ha, I know I have 3 designs already in the running but I had a crash in Illustrator that lost me hours of work. So I blew off some steam making this one last entry. For Shirt Woot’s Derby: Visual Puns.

Sweater Kittens!

I figure if people were okay with seamen on their chests then they’d have no problem showing off their sweater kittens. =]

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I’m totally making more of these little kittens. OMG, cuddles them.

Oct27

Shirt Woot Derby #118: Visual Puns

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Shirt Woot Derby #118: Visual Puns

More stuff for Shirt Woot, this time the theme is Visual Puns. Which, apparently I like to do in my normal art… even though I hate them as jokes from friends.

So here is my designs.

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Catacombs, they’re cats that are combs. Also their little fur pattern has caves with crosses and graves in them.

Catacombs. An underground cemetery, esp. one consisting of tunnels and rooms with recesses dug out for coffins and tombs.

I need to make a version of the Catacombs that’s a normal looking comb instead of these fancy vintage combs. I love these vintage combs!

DXS-118-rug-rats

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Rugrats.

This is an idea that Shawnna gave me a few months ago that I’d been working on making into a actual painting. I had stalled on the image for awhile until this derby came up. I really happy I was able to finish this version for Woot and hopefully I can finally do the same for the painting.

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I also made this cute Pocketbook shirt design. I want a book on my shirt! It’s the part of the shirt that you read. =D

You can vote for it on Shirt Woot if you’ve bought a shirt from them. Still, I thought it’d be nice to show you guys the final version. =D

Oct20

Derby Overlooks 117: Halloween

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Derby Overlooks 117: Halloween

This weeks derby theme on Shirt Woot is “Halloween 09″, which has yielded a lot of drama over rejections and cats in pumpkins… including 4 parody entries to date and angry tirades from all over. I’ve managed to stay out of it for the most part. However, like last week, there are quite a few good entries getting mostly ignored. You’d just have to shift through an INSANE amount of entries to get to them. I have looked through all of the entries and these were the ones I thought seem to be sadly overlooked. Based of course on my own tastes, your millage may vary.

I’ll start from the least votes and go up to the most.

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Oct18

Shirt Woot Derby #117 Halloween 2

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Shirt Woot Derby #117 Halloween 2

Last day to vote on my Threadless submission!

Cute Has a Flavor - Threadless T-shirts, Nude No More

So, I finished another design for Shirt Woot’s Derby #117: Halloween. This one is based off of a joke my My friend Michael Vega did in comic called “Monster’s of Rock”. In one panel the zombie guy reveals that he could be the weirdest guy in their monster band, after all he has a kitten in his chest. A cuddly parasite kitten!

I asked Mike’s permission to use the joke and he let me make this shirt based on that concept. Whee, this is my absolute favorite design I’ve done to date for these derbys.

You can vote for this design on Shirt Woot here: http://shirt.woot.com/Derby/Entry.aspx?id=36319

I have another T-shirt idea for this derby but I’m not sure when I’ll be done with it. I’m sort of a little burned out right at the moment.

Thanks so much for everybody that been voting on the shirts. I really appreciate all the support. I should be making my Derby Overlooks post tomorrow for the Halloween derby.

Oct17

Shirt Woot Derby #117 Halloween

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Shirt Woot Derby #117 Halloween

Reminder! My Threadless design is still up for voting!

Cute Has a Flavor - Threadless T-shirts, Nude No More

So, the Halloween derby has started and after a frustrating two hours trying to upload my designs to Shirt Woot I now have 2 designs currently up in the running. I adjusted one of my images of Doubt and his shadow so that the coloring went from a cool blue to a nice blood red.

DXS-117-feed-kid

You can vote for this design on Shirt Woot here: http://shirt.woot.com/Derby/Entry.aspx?id=36197

And I did some adorable pumpkins carving themselves new faces to go out laying on porches in wait. I was particularly happy with the ice cream scoop.

You can vote for this design on Shirt Woot here: http://shirt.woot.com/Derby/Entry.aspx?id=36198

I have a few other ideas that I feel motivated to do. Which I might do here in the next few days. This derby seems considerably tougher this time around. I lot of people saved up cool Halloween art. I almost always lack the drive to finish art for holidays and Halloween is a favorite of mine so hopefully I can do a couple more pieces.

Which reminds me I need to get a Halloween costume together.

Oct12

Threadless! Shirt Woot Derby #116 Designs

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Threadless! Shirt Woot Derby #116 Designs

Yay! My design for Threadless was accepted for voting. Please go and look and give me a vote. It’s a really terrible joke, with really cute things crammed into a tiny area. =D

Cute Has a Flavor - Threadless T-shirts, Nude No More

In other random shirt making news, the theme for this weeks Shirt Woot’s derby was “Erase Hunger, Create Hope” and I came up with two designs.

A cartoony organs talking to each other image:
DXS-116-have-a-heart-design-detail2

And a more symbolic illustrative image:

Votes are going okay, but it’s clear that I haven’t quite figured out what the crowd at Shirt Woot gets excited about. =P At least, it’s making me make new art.

Oct11

Derby Overlooks 116

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Derby Overlooks 116

This weeks derby theme on Shirt Woot is “Erase Hunger, Create Hope”, which is surprisingly hard to create for but there have been some good entries. I’ve noticed that there seems to be a lot of cute/good/neat enteries that for what ever reason fall through the cracks. Probably the crowd over on shirt woot doesn’t like the things I like or maybe not every voter looks through every entry in the derby… like I do.

So, I thought I’d post the ones I particularly liked that don’t seem to be getting very many votes. Starting from the least votes to the most.

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Oct7

Shirt Woot Derby #115 Design

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Shirt Woot Derby #115 Design

Woot! I got into the art show I had tried out for! Awesome! I’m going to be one of the artists participation in the Blue Genie Art Bazaar along with my friend Shawnna. So, that means I’ve got to get my shit together and make a lot more cute stuff to sell. I’ve been working really hard on doing more little wood paintings so I have a few of those done. What I really want to do is another Pathtag or two and Christmas Card design. I have a lot of planning to do, I’m not good at planning. Makes a list.

Then, right after Blue Genie I have 4 conventions all in a row. The beginning part of 2010 is going to be REALLY busy. =D

In other art news I did an image for this week’s Shirt Woot derby: National Parks, which is a really tough theme. I decided to do floating rocks because I really like the idea of rocks floating in the air.

Larger Version, too big for my site’s formatting!

But I think Shawnna’s Exploding Bear shirt design is the best in the bunch! So, I encourage you guys that can vote(you have to have bought a shirt to vote… oh shit yeah Miss monster has a shirt up for sale on Shirt Woot today! So if you want an awesome shirt you can buy hers and then vote for us in the derby), to vote for both me and Shawnna! Or hell, just Shawnna! I give you a link!

Exploding Bears!!

I also just put up a shirt design on Threadless that is so cute it hurts. I’m still waiting for them to approve it but here’s the link: http://threadless.com/submission/235163/Cute_Has_a_Flavor