Umibozu: My 10k SUbmission

So here goes my bid into DBH's prestigious 10k design contest. If you don't know about it, it's a t-shirt design contest, where the prize is ten thousand f***ing dollars. That's a good chunk of change. 4 runners up will also recieve one thousand dollars. It's an elimination type of dealy, they go up for voting for a few weeks, and the designs with the most votes and best designs will become the top 20. All votes are then reset to 0, and at the end of the week the 10 shirts with the top votes become the top 10. Votes are reset to 0 again and the top 5 become the winners.

The competition is fierce already, there are some clear front runners, and more than a handful of designs that are potential contenders. I have no idea how mine is going to fair in the contest. I'm entering it kind of late, so it's going to sort of have to play catch up in terms of votes. I created a topic in the forum to show my process in making the design, and got a lot of good feedback and encouragement:

http://www.designbyhumans.com/forums/show/550054

I submitted on a Friday which means it probably won't be up til Monday. I worked really hard on this, and I hope it does well. I hope I can at least make the top 20, let alone be one of the 5 winners. Hope people will like the design, and I'm going to do my best to try to rally support. I'm up against some of the more profilic designers in the game though, and I'm a relative nobody, I've never had anything printed and don't really have much of a fanbase, so I'm going to be an underdog in this competition. Wish me luck.

Oh, and in case you're curious about what the design is about, he's a wiki link:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umibozu

I'll post again when it's up for voting.

-stray

My submission for the Teefury collab

Teefury is celebrating it's one year anniversary and to celebrate they're asking people to send in their version of their mascot the teefury bird to be collaged onto a shirt. Figured I'd get in on the fun.
Really busy with my DBH 10k design right now, so I didn't have time to go full out with this. Spent about 30 minutes give or take in photoshop on it. Despite that, he's still a cute fella isn't he? Stay tuned for posts about my 10k design.

-stray

Monarch @ Threadless

My first Threadless submission, so head on over there and give me a High $5!

http://www.threadless.com/submission/219231

-stray

boombox skull

Still working on this fellar. He's so majestic dontcha think?



Just finished this. Don't know what I'll do with it. Maybe try to sell it.

So DBH is having an Incubus contest right now, and also their 10K contest will be coming up soon. I'm going to work on some stuff for those. Already have a few ideas for the 10K. Stay tuned.

-stray

Superfly

So I finally finished this design. It was a lot of fun to work on.



It was modeled after this classic Superman cover:



But the idea is a pun obviously of this old movie. "Never a fly like this one. He's got a plan to stick it to the man." was the tagline from the Superfly movie, except they said "dude" instead of "fly" of course.



Hope you guys enjoy the piece. I mocked it for a t-shirt and hopefully somebody will want to print it:




Thanks for looking. Have a swell day.

-stray

New stuff

New design up for voting at DBH.

http://www.designbyhumans.com/vote/detail/55741

And a couple works in progress:


I intend this one for Teefury


And this one I'm thinking of submitting to Threadless.

-stray

Oldies but Goodies

Decided to post up some of my old stuff, so that maybe when you see more of my recent stuff it'll make it look really good in comparison, and you'll be like "Whoa! You really leveled up!"
If it's the opposite and you're like "Jeez, it's all going downhill." then I'll be very sad. I'll most likely fling my body from a tall building.
But anyway, here you go, old stuff:





















I have a long ways to go as an artist, but hopefully I've made a lot of progress over the years. I'm really ready to start doing something with these so called skills of mine. I'm currently working a really boring frustrating dead-end low-paying job, and I sit there all day just waiting for my shift to end, which is the last thing I wanted to be doing with my life (gotta get those bills paid though right) so I really want to be on my way to doing bigger and better things.

The t-shirt design thing is just the first small step in my initiative. It's not so much the money that's the goal (although I could really use the money) but it's the web presence that being a winner could bring me. Something that can open the door for the other things I want to do, and hopefully afford me with people that will be paying attention to me when I start to do those things.

So hopefully, this blog will not only be a place to showcase my work, but to document my journey. Wish me luck and all that. Thanks for looking and reading.

-stray