NEW SHIRT ALERT: The Steampunk Fish has arrived!
Check it out! Everyone's favorite flying steampunk fish! I crafted this image in Clip Studio Paint, which, as I've said many times, I love using on my iPad. It worked great for designing this shirt, and when I sent it over to Photoshop to do some final tweaks (the logo, metadata, converting it for upload, mockups...) it held up perfectly (I was a little worried about how the process would work, but it was PSD to PSD, so I shouldn't have worried. Then again, this is me and this IS technology...). I noodled away at this one
Gallery Update: Mother’s Day 2018-The Card
Happy Mother's Day, 2018! I couldn't do what I do and dream what I dream without my wife by my side or my mom (and all the other women in my family) supporting, encouraging, teaching, and raising me. I love all of you and I can't put into words my gratitude. Time for a peak at this year's card! The dragon kids are a year older. I try to go through pictures from the previous year and find one that represents something special-a place, a moment, an event-and then I try to capture it in pen and ink.
Get Your Cephalopod On! Literally!
Well, it's not Monday, but I'm finally getting around to this here blog post in conjunction with the next shirt available for purchase. I made a bunch of little tweaks to this one, which started out looking like this: This is the Multi Purpose Novelty Squid. I was fairly happy with this rendering back when I made it, and it holds up reasonably well to me now. I never really liked the text, though, and overall it just seemed to be missing something. Here's the updated version: The re-envisioned Multi Purpose Novelty Squid shirt! I apparently
Another Torso Decoration for You, and One for Me!
Wow, four weeks, four shirts posted to my Etsy shop! So far, I'm sticking to alternating between a PMD related shirt and some of my other designs, we'll see how long that holds up, especially as I get through the existing designs and start generating new stuff. I actually didn't tweak this week's design at all. It's a simple, bold, graphic image that I am still fairly happy with, so I decided not to muck with it. Here's what I had to say about this image in the Etsy posting: This image is clearly inspired by famous Japanese
A NEW Awesome Shirt of Awesomeness for Awesome People!
Another week, another shirt! But first, some other stuff... I was a bit ahead of the game last week, having managed to stick to tweaking and uploading a new shirt and having completed multiple IPMDT panels a day for several days, so I decided to get distracted with another project: my ultimate survival wool blanket coat. I have always thought it would be cool to make my own clothes, and not just putting my art on shirts. I remember thinking how cool it was that my memere was a seamstress and she would either alter clothes or flat out
Torso Decorations!
Hey, there. 'Sup? Oh, me? Not much, other than I FINALLY GOT MY FLIPPIN' ETSY SHOP UP AND RUNNING!!!!!! I know, right? Keep your ears peeled for the pounding hoofs of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. But until they arrive, you can finally BUY something from me. It's a weird thing, selling stuff (or trying to). I've always struggled with the concept of applying a monetary value to the things I create, because at the end of the day, I'm going to create them regardless. It's that whole artist compulsion thingy. However, I can rationalize that it takes
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