Purple

Through a friend I recently came across a website called artjumble.  It's a blog, a sort of online community of artists who post their work on that weeks' theme.  A new topic comes out every Monday.
Sadly though, they are not taking anymore members.  No matter.  Every week I now have a new idea to jumpstart my mind.  This week the topic was: Purple.  The first thing I think of is Prince.  The second thing is the The Joker.   So I put them together in  movie poster, face-off kind of way.  Let me know what you think.  I'll be looking for next week's theme on Monday.

Hell's Kitchen

My daily commute takes me to Port Authority.  It's one of my favorite NYC spots.  It's Old New York.
Not many places left in New York like the area around Port Authority.  I'd like to do a series of drawings
around it.  Don't know if these are tee shirt type prints; may be posters?  Anyone from the New York City board of tourism can hit me up.  I'm thinking big I know.

In the Know

My latest submission to threadless.com.  My previous one wasn't accepted, not surprised really, they don't allow that kind of theme.  This one is more their taste- I hope.  I'll let you know.
12-21-10 UPDATE: Nope it was rejected as well, I'm 0-3.

F U Money

I'm a fan of business & finance and I spent way too much time reading about them.  One day last week I was reading one of my favorite business blogs and came across the phrase "F U Money".  I had to laugh, everyone knows that saying but I hadn't heard it in a while.  Then I thought to myself: How funny would it be if that was a tee shirt logo?  Seeing as I design tee shirts for a living it made perfect sense.  Here's what I came up with.  The first two ideas are from my sketchbook, the last three are from illustrator & photoshop of the finished work.  I submitted it to threadless.com as well.  Don't know if the artwork is too mature for them but I thought the logo was too clever to let pass.  Hopefully they accept it, I'll let you know.

Tuff Love-Step 1

OK here's my latest idea for a threadless.com submission.  I think I might do this as is in black & white

on a white or grey heather shirt.  Then may be add some color and put it on a pink shirt.  I want to show the whole process on my blog before I put it up for submission.  That might be my new order of things.  This way I can view comments and go back; change it, look at it, revise it, whatever.  Sometimes I find myself battling what I call "tired eye syndrome".  Meaning that you look at a piece of art for so long you just get sick of it and lose all critical perspective about it.  It's hard to step back, remove yourself and see it with a "fresh eye."  Hopefully this way, this blog- will help.

New York City, the $20 Bill Eater

Here's my finished New York City, the $20 Bill Eater tee.  Now onto my other ideas for threadless.com
(& me)  I think my sense of humor might be a little too edgy for them but I'm going to keep trying.  Back to my sketchbook for more ideas!

Threadless tees- six colors

My first Threadless submission on 6 colors.  The "official" way is on Heather Grey.