Metallic Ink Derby

Goodjoe.com Creates Artist Storefronts! (Goodjoe.com)

Goodjoe.com recently opened a new part to their ever-changing store. They've now created personalized storefronts for artists to properly display their art for sale on a variety of media: t-shirts, hoodies, kids tees, tank tops, lunchboxes, posters, and cards. This allows the artist the ability to sell previously winning designs on more options to those who love your artwork, but would rather see it on a wall, or send it to friends and family to love all over again. Besides my winning pieces, there are now others available that reflect the positive message that Goodjoe wants everyone to connect with. And as always, all purchases allow portions of the sales to go to non-profit organizations to raise money for inner-city music programs, animal welfare, specialized communities and more.

Be sure to read all about Goodjoe's mission here and swing by my storefront for some great new prints.

Serenading the Masses at Threadless (Threadless.com)

I urge you to vote 5$ for this tee at Threadless.
I know. It's a bit forward. The main reason being, this almost printed elsewhere, but the deal fell through due to changes after I signed the contract. That being said, it's up this week for voting and I would love your support. Please comment on the design, vote 5$ and then tell your friends via twitter, facebook, pinterest, stumbleupon, and other awesome social media places to get the word out.
Please vote by April 2nd. You'll be glad you did. And then I can share the wealth by giving away free tees if you follow me on facebook and twitter. (bottom version has the design slightly lower, off the collar).

The Northern Lights Never Sounded Lovelier! (Goodjoe.com)

I chose to create a design for Goodjoe.com's People Do Care contest currently up for voting until March 11th. We were allowed to choose any non-profit group we'd like to create a design for, and if printed, every tee sold gives $1 to the charity we decided to support. I decided to create a piece for a group called FAYM (the Foundation to Assist Young Musicians) based in Las Vegas. They help underprivileged families who couldn't otherwise afford instruments for their kids, as well as help with music lessons. Stop by Goodjoe today to give this some vote love!

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Double Whammy Week (Goodjoe.com & Global Thread Collective)

Most T-shirt artists live for weeks like this. It feels like a million bucks when you get printed, especially at a place like Goodjoe.com with my 6th and newest piece: He Wanted To Fly So Badly. A kid-inspired, yet adult-friendly depiction of how friends can help other friends achieve desired goals. This tee is still $12 til Sunday, September 5th, then it goes to $18 after that.

But the feeling is a million times a million when you find out you'll have 2 tees running at the same time! StupidHurts.us (now Global Thread Collective), picked up Peyote Bird for their temporary line! They actually print up a number of tees before they put them up for sale on the site. That way you can see EXACTLY how the design will look. Pretty slick, right? This poor little 1-color design had a rocky start. First, it didn't win the shirt.woot derby I entered it into. After the 60 day design hold they have on all entries, I had it print at Squidink (a now defunct 1-print every 24 hrs website) back in April. Sadly, the sales were low, and even worse, the company printed it poorly and in the wrong place. A double whammy of the worst kind. If even I won't wear the tee, you know it's a loss. So I never thought it would ever again see the light of day. But when StupidHurts.us changed over to Global Thread Collective and revamped their site, I decided to try them out. Just from the photos below, I'm excited to finally receive this the way I had intended. And, it looks great on AA's organic Galaxy colored tee or even on hoodies! A definite must for fans of my work. $20-$45 (plus shipping) will send a Lakota-inspired design out to you, post haste!

Harvesting Wishes... I'll Take 3, Please! (Threadless.com)

Hopefully this has enough whimsy to print with the folks at Threadless. Care to help out? Please, vote for this little gem over at their site :D The link below shows you how much time you have left. Don't waste time! If this ever gets printed, I'll be sure to give 3 lucky people a t-shirt. You can hold me to that. And give it some love over at Emptees too!

Heart Derby

Shoot for the Mooon Actually Reaches Its Goal (Goodjoe.com)

Double-Take Derby 7

Flight Derby

Harvest Derby

This shirt received an Honorable Mention after this week's voting and will be in the following Double-Take Derby 7.

Taking Flight, Little Star? (Teextile.com)

I decided that since I pulled my jazz piece at Teextile.com, I should try something else over there instead. I figured it may be time to see how 'He Wanted To Fly So Badly' could do. Whimsical, and fun take on parasailing, I'm hoping he gets some well deserved love over there. Especially with 'Funky Colors Week' coming up in August. Click the picture at the bottom to see a larger view. Or just click on the 'vote' right below :)

Pressure Derby

Monster Collab (Teefury.com)

TeeFury asked designers to team up in honor of one of the best loved books of children everywhere: Where the Wild Things Are which was turned into a movie and will soon be out in theatres. Well today, for one day only, you too can snag a monster tee for $9 (plus shipping). Over 35 artists created monsters for this collab (some did multiples), including my Sir Snaggletooth. He's rather creepy if you have a thing about teeth, as I do. And at this moment I just want to thank Jimiyo (curator for Teefury and the mover and shaker behind this collab) for adding the little detail that I forgot to in the monocle. I was totally planning to add those glassy streaks across it. Now, since this is a huge group collab, we don't keep any of the proceeds. Instead, all of the proceeds will be going to the Save the Children organization help children like Max from the story.
Take a look below, but don't forget to buy this before 12:00AM EST/11:00PM CST tonight! And see if you can find this little guy:






While you're checking out the shirt as a whole, try and find your favorite, then find the artist (artists linked on the TeeFury.com page):


1. WinterArtwork
2. Jimiyo
3. Jeremy Hanlin
4. Quakerninja
5. Challen Carland
6. Joe Baron
7. Brian Luong
8. Brian Walline
9. 110specialblack
10. Recycledwax,
11. AJ Paglia -
12. Jeremy Hanlin
13. Adam Vaudin
14. Jeremy Hanlin
15. Oddeti,
16. Jeremy Hanlin
17. MJ
18. Jeremy Hanlin
19. Ray Masaki
20. Tom Philibeck
21. Rob Dobi
22. Stormink
23. 110specialblack
24. Kevin Luong
25. JadenKale
26. dunz0
27. Quakerninja
28. Gaunty
29. DesignByRyan
30. ansharp
31. Jumpy
32. yeshua machado
33. Snarkygal
34. XIEX
35. Wiz
36. Rashaun Collins
37. Organs
38. LitoQ
39. Davee Bee
40. Dennis Beatty
41. Barrios
42. Ryan Pimental
43. Daniel Martinez
44. Altercrisis
45. Liviu Matei

My Patience Has Paid Off... With Shirts and Money! (Print #3)

It was only half a month ago that I asked you, begged you, to vote for my shirt at Ink-Hound.com. 'Eat Cake, Honey' was an old piece from a shirt.woot derby revolving around the theme 'Join the Revolution' (and I don't mean a turntable). From her sure and sly smile, to her ample ::coughs:: we won't go there ::coughs::, all the way down to the red velvet cake being thrust upon you in that very queenly generous "Oh I insist, you have a bite, my dear!" 'Eat Cake, Honey' has been a design I've loved for quite a while.

Today came the email I had hoped for: "The people have spoken and they love 'Eat Cake, Honey'!" I'm ecstatic to see this finally grace a navy American Apparel traditional or fitted shirt for $12, organic or long sleeve tee for $14, or a sweatshirt for $30. I'm also tickled to see who my hat partner is at the same time (I'm going to guess 'Monsters & Ghosts Oh My!' by wotto), but we'll see who that is when the time comes! Thank you to all who voted, and I hope that we'll see it printed again in the future should you happen to miss out on it this week.

Buy it now! One week only!
April 7th 12:00am EST - April 13th 11:59pm EST


Update: Friday April 10th, 2009: Tcritic wrote a great review on Eat Cake, Honey