Last day to get Umibozu to the top 4!

So I made it to the top 10, and hopefully tomorrow I'll be in the top 4! But to make sure this happens I need everyone to vote, and I need everyone to get everyone they know to vote! Thank you guys so much for your continued support without you none of this would be possible.

Here's the link to sign up:

Here's the link to vote:

Thanks everyone!

ALSO, I want to give a shout out to my favorite band in the world The Color Turning, they just released their first full-length album Good Hands Bad Blood. Here are some videos to get a taste:

The Color Turning - "Marionettes In Modern Times" from Welikeit.indie on Vimeo.

The Color Turning - "Where The Sky Ends" from Welikeit.indie on Vimeo.

Go to their site for more info: http://thecolorturning.com/

-stray

I got a shout out from Singularitee

T-shirt blogger AdderXYU was kind enough to endorse my design for the DBH 10k, he had this to say:

"It really treats the tee as a canvas, utilizing every inch to bring the image and the story it conveys home. It's a great vignette, too, combining a whimsy and wonder with a fear and dread. The creature rises out of the water as if a threat, with his shadowy body and immense size spelling doom for the ship, but at the same time he seems concerned and curious, and though he is in shadow, he is surrounded by light, as if he's simply a gentle giant, to be seen as a wonder, not a threat. The juxtaposition gives the scene a lot of potential directions, and that helps make it so appealing. Not that the expert use of lighting hurts either."

Read more at his blog:

http://singularitee.blogspot.com/2009/08/contest-watch-plus-week-of-july-30.html

Really enjoyed that review, because he totally nailed what I was going for. I hope I can pull off a win in this 10k. I'd appreciate your vote:

http://www.designbyhumans.com/vote/detail/60283

Thanks for reading.

-stray

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