Monthly Archives: May 2010

May28

Schrodinger’s Cat

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Schrodinger’s Cat

The new derby theme is Psychedelia which I was excited about because I love to draw fonts by hand. But had a hard time figuring out what I wanted to draw until I thought of Schrodinger’s cat. =D

This is the final outcome! It’s currently up for voting and is doing really well. Please vote if you can.

http://shirt.woot.com/Derby/Entry.aspx?id=42604

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“How does the derby work? Can I buy this shirt?”

Only the top 3 shirts will become shirts. Click on the shirt image above and hit the “I want one” button on Shirt Woot.

If there is no vote button to click on:

To vote on shirt woot you have to have an account that has bought something off of any of the woot sites (woot, shirt.woot, or wine.woot).

Maybe something from the Reckoning: http://shirt.woot.com/Reckoning/

Once you have bought something you can cast a vote for however many designs you want.

May24

Fresh Fruit!

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Fresh Fruit!

Edit: I re-subbed the Fresh Fruit shirt to fix the font. Please vote again. Sorry about that.

This shirt was made for the Nutrition derby and it’s also a pun. I spent a lot of time trying to get the expressions right. Which meant I drew the face 8 to 10 times trying to get just the right mood. How can you go wrong with sassy fruit. =D I think this is my favorite one out of the shirts I’ll done so far. Knocks on wood. Give me a vote if you can.

Other shirts in the running:

May21

Deja Vu Derby

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Deja Vu Derby

So this week the new woot derby theme is Deja vu. This derby is awesome! Basically the theme is that we can make a shirt for any of the earlier derbies and enter it now for this one. So I did a bunch of shirt and for it.

This idea was for the “Visual Pun” derby I just couldn’t do it for that derby because at the time text wasn’t allowed but for this derby that restriction is gone! So yay puns.

http://shirt.woot.com/Derby/Entry.aspx?id=42340

This idea was for the “Text as Art” derby and everything on the shirt had to be made out of text. =D This is a really really painful pun and normally I hate those but… here it is!

http://shirt.woot.com/Derby/Entry.aspx?id=42359

EDIT: Took this one down to mess with it some more! I will post a new version when I’m done.
This idea was for the “Spring 2010″ derby and I never got around to making it because I knew this one would take forever to get right.

This idea was for the “Heat” derby, which was Woot’s 2nd derby theme. FLAMES MADE OF CATS. =D

http://shirt.woot.com/Derby/Entry.aspx?id=42381

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“How does the derby work? Can I buy this shirt?”

Only the top 3 shirts will get made into shirts. Click on the shirt image above and hit the “I want one” button on Shirt Woot.

If there is no vote button to click on:

To vote on the derbies on shirt woot you have to have an account that has bought at least one thing off of any of the woot sites (woot, shirt.woot, or wine.woot).

Maybe something from the Reckoning: http://shirt.woot.com/Reckoning/

Once you have bought something you can cast a vote for however many designs you want.

May20

Tiny Blue Cat Stripe Painting!

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Tiny Blue Cat Stripe Painting!

Instead of doing work I did this tiny painting of stripe cats on a 3 x 3 inch canvas that I’d been saving for awhile. I have all of these art supplies I haven’t quite found a way to use up. This was this little canvas’ day of reckoning!


Prints are available in my shop!

The original is also for sale, drop a comment if interested. Otherwise this is heading to the A-kon art show.

May18

Birthday! YAY! Painting mishap! Boo

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Birthday! YAY! Painting mishap! Boo

My birthday was last week and I forgot to mention it because I’ve been struggling to get ready for all of the conventions coming up soon. I’m not really prepared for the cons but I have so much new art that I think I mostly just need to make sure everything is printed up and ready. Though I could use a few more painted pieces like the Pancat and the House Mouse to go with all of the flat shirt colored art I now have.

Speaking of shirts I may have one of my designs up for sell in the next few weeks. I’m just waiting for conformation that it’s going to be printed and what day it’s going to go up.

Oh man, I have this super big blue and white cat stripe painting. And last week I finally set up a space in the garage to seal the thing and a huge thunderstorm rolls in and totally ruins it. Well some of it was my fault but I don’t think I caused it to buckle and warp. I blame the heat and humidity. I sort of freaked out because that has never happened before with any of the other images. I was really upset and sad but I figured I’d just go ahead and keep putting the sealant on, it needs about 3-4 coats to really get everything covered right. It ends up with a nice glossy shine once everything dries and it looks amazing. So, I dishearteningly finish the sealing hoping that since it’ll be under glass that no one will notice the rippling. I brought it inside 4 days ago and what do I see today? The damn thing isn’t warped anymore. What? Was it playing a game on my emotions? Shakes fist at own painting!!!

I have no idea how to scan it. It’s really large. I might do it in pieces that is if I want to hate myself.

My Convention Schedule for the summer is as follows:

A-kon: June 2-4th in Dallas. I have a table in the Komik Market and art in the Art Show.

Anthrocon: June 24-27 in Pittsburgh, PA. I’ll have a table in the dealers room and art in the Art Show.

San Diego Comic Con: July 21-25 in San Diego. I’ll be sharing a booth with my friends and will have art in the Art Show.

I’m going to be hitting some other smaller conventions in the Texas area after summer but I’m mostly excited to see how things go for these main three. Sales have been picking back up on my art in the last year so I’m hoping that this trend will continue to grow. Which reminds me I am the worst person about updating my site other then my weekly stabs at the derby. I’m hoping to fix that before A-kon with at least a new site theme. I need to overhaul the entire site but that might have to wait until after the convention season.

Just to liven up this journal! A piece of art I’ve been working on, Bunnies 4ever or Infinite bunnies. It’s like my stripe cats only it’s bunnies and it’s not a stripe across the page. I sort of want to make a real painting of this but I’d need something to transfer the image onto the canvas/board. Hmm. Anyway! I’ll post a finished computer colored version when I’m done.

May15

Double Take Derby

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Double Take Derby

The Double Take derby is this week so here are my shirt designs back for voting, one more chance at printing! So if you voted before, please please vote again.

Even if I don’t get enough votes for the shirt be in the top 3 it might still be picked for an Editor Choice shirt. So I’m pretty excited.

Here are some bigger versions of the designed with links to vote.

http://shirt.woot.com/Derby/Entry.aspx?id=42197

http://shirt.woot.com/Derby/Entry.aspx?id=42273

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“How does the derby work? Can I buy this shirt?”

Only the top 3 shirts will get made into shirts. Click on the shirt image above and hit the “I want one” button on Shirt Woot.

If there is no vote button to click on:

To vote on the derbies on shirt woot you have to have an account that has bought at least one thing off of any of the woot sites (woot, shirt.woot, or wine.woot).

Maybe something from the Reckoning: http://shirt.woot.com/Reckoning/

Once you have bought something you can cast a vote for however many designs you want.

May10

Dr. Tiny Cat – EEEKAYGEE

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Dr. Tiny Cat – EEEKAYGEE

New Lolcat shirt currently on sale today and tomorrow.

http://lolmartshirts.com/2010/05/10/lolmart-shirts-dr-tinycat-eeekaygee/

Only 15.00 with free shipping, now with some international shipping! YAY!

Please be careful to check the sizing info on the shirts as they apparently run rather small for woman.

I normally wear a medium and I need a XL on this site. So be careful of the sizing. =D

“Dr. Tiny Cat – EEEKAYGEE” is on sale for all Monday and Tuesday, so act now if you like the shirt. =D

I finished this design in Illustrator CS3. I really love the fixes Adobe has done with Illustrator.

The Original Dr. Tinycat design is by Joe Rufa. =D You can see the original here: http://lolmartshirts.com/2009/12/28/lolmart-shirts-dr-tinycat/

May2

Spring 2 Life

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Spring 2 Life

Another entry for Woot’s “Spring” derby. I had a ton of ideas for this derby but this one was an idea by Michael Vega, he came up with the idea and sketch a small sample then I finished the design and colored it.

Spring is a time for springs! Of all sorts. New plants!

http://shirt.woot.com/Derby/Entry.aspx?id=41970

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“How does the derby work? Can I buy this shirt?”

Only the top 3 shirts will get made into shirts. Click on the shirt image above and hit the “I want one” button on Shirt Woot.

If there is no vote button to click on:

To vote on the derbies on shirt woot you have to have an account that has bought at least one thing off of any of the woot sites (woot, shirt.woot, or wine.woot).

Maybe something from the Reckoning: http://shirt.woot.com/Reckoning/

Once you have bought something you can cast a vote for however many designs you want.