The Serenity Club up on RIPT Apparel!

On sale at RIPT Apparel for $10, Monday, 5/2/2011 only!

Guardians of the Labyrinth now up on Tilteed!

$12 on Tilteed.com!  Three colors on American Apparel Olive; pretty and comfy.

Available for three days only; until 4/30, 3pm EST. Aww, you missed it.

LOLmart - Catalope

Put away your wolf shirts. Deer are played out. If you’ve been searching your used clothing spots and faux-vintage websites for THE DEFINITE AWESOME/IRONIC NATURE TEE, stop your search now. You’ve found it. Catalope up.

For sale until 4/10!

The Serenity Club

Four colors on white. It's up on RedBubble if you want a shirt or sticker. :)

Coming soon to a t-shirt website near you...

Coming this Thursday to TeeFury...

Doc Fink will be available on TeeFury, for one day only for $10!

You can get it on a poster, or on a different color shirt on RedBubble.

If you're interested in seeing process, here's the original sketch:

Art Deco SFII design finds a home

Remember this design?

Now you can pick it up on LevelUpStudios.com as a shirt!

Or if you prefer to not wear it, the design is up on RedBubble as a poster/print.

Coming this Caturday to TeeFury...

Don't forget to check TeeFury this Saturday if you want in on the LOLcat shirt action. 

It's only on sale for one day, for $9.

This shirt is up on Zazzle and RedBubble in case you missed it on TeeFury.

See more of my shirt designs here.

Guardians of the Labyrinth

My entry for this week's shirt.woot contest.

Click here to vote!

Three colors on olive.

Behemoth Brew

Just an experimental piece. Playing with texture a bit. Good excuse to draw a scary thing.

Two colors on olive.

Street Fighter II design

Doc Brown obsession

Doc Brown VS Ed Roth

Doc Brown VS goofy Einstein

Coq au Vin

Coq au Vin is a yummy dish.  It's so yummy that this rooster is honored to become it.

(Four colors on Cream)

Available on RedBubble as a shirt.
Available on Zazzle as a shirt, print or coaster.

Speaking of dogs...

This was an entry for a Shirt.Woot.com derby. Not doing too shabby!  Hoping for an Honorable Mention. :)

Link to the entry on Shirt.Woot.

Kitten cone.

Vanilla, Peanut Butter Cup and Caramel Swirl.

birds' tweets

A shirt design. I've been so fascinated with our backyard birds recently that I had to do a bird-centric piece.

No Garden, One Dragon

The theme for this week is Palindrome. I chose "No Garden, One Dragon" as my subject. (Cause I'm a sucker for dragons.)


I got the dragon's long winding pose finished before I started on the head. This one looked a little too much like Shen Long to my liking.


This one had some more spunk. I like being able to show that weird molar-fang toward the back of the mouth.
Arms were annoying at this stage. Asian dragons have goofy little arms that can appear at any point along the long coiled body.


Here was my first pass at a colored sketch. Didn't bother with an arm. Just wanted to try some colors.


These were the colors I went with. I got rid of that pink, since I was only using it in his mouth. Thought I could use a slightly more versatile color that I could also use elsewhere. I went with kind of a burnt orange. I was able to convey more depth in the scales and body that way, and it was a convenient mid-tone color for the tree.


I've been using Photoshop for ten years. I did not know until a few weeks ago, how to use masks. WOW, do they make things easier! Especially with t-shirt designs when you use the color of the shirt as a highlight or outline color.
The highlights helped add a lot of depth. I was loving the shirt color at this point.


For kicks, here it is on white. I like the cream much better. I find this to be a bit harsh.

Here is its entry on shirt.woot.com.

Making of a woot shirt entry

This actually started off as an entry for Illustration Friday's theme: Wilderness. At first, it was a scaredy tiger being afraid at the not-so-scary wilderness around him (like a toucan and praying mantis).


Then I adapted it to the woot theme (Nightmares), making a lion who's having nightmares about some of the threats he has to deal with in day to day life (hyenas, panthers, crocodiles, pythons, and um, fire?).


This is the piece uncolored on cranberry.
There used to be a hippo and elephant in there, and the panther and hyena were laughing at the wussy lion. I did more with the lion's expression at this stage, too. He's got more worry lines and such, and I added a tooth poking out for more character.
The crocodile was added in strictly to balance the composition. ...OK, also I really like drawing crocodiles.


And this is my finished entry. I wanted to try limiting my palette a bit, since I always use the maximum of six colors.

shirt designs for shirt.woot

Shirt.woot.com does a contest each week. They pick a theme, the community votes, and the top three shirts are printed.


The theme for this derby was Flight.
So, naturally, I drew a t-rex being blown out of a volcano.
Hmm, I really phoned in those pterodactyls.


Visual Puns theme: Dandylion!
It's a lion. He is dandy. Though I might argue he's more dapper than dandy.


Visual Puns theme:
Brainstorm!
Could definitely have used more brains. And refinement.


Visual Puns theme:
Husky husky is husky.


National Parks theme:
Carnivore Valley Park (a made-up National Park in Sudan or something)


Cooking theme:
Tonight I Dine
This one was rejected because they didn't want any video game references. Not that TMNT is strictly a video game (was originally a comic), but oh well. I'm not planning on doing any more designs that are referencing pop culture. I should do my OWN stuff! :)