Visiting hours

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I’ve been wanting to sit down and design something with the character, Boba Fett from Star Wars. And this week I finally found an excuse to do it. We were allowed to use only white ink on black shirts. I came up with this design while sketching it. I really didn’t knew what I was looking for. I guess it found me. One sketch led to another when the final concept came alive in front of my eyes.

About the design. Boba Fett is visiting his buddy Darth Vader, at the Burn Care Unit. While there, he hears a conversation he wishes he never had. Hope you like it as much as I enjoyed designing it. Please vote HERE!

BurntCareUnit ShirtComp

 

 

I almost forgot, here’s last week design. It is all based on the word “Nightlife”. It did very good, thanks to everyone that voted.

DiscoMoon ShirtComp

Explore NYC

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ExploreNYC DetailVoteThis week I bring to you a poster-styled shirt design. The theme for this particular derby is “Vacation Slogan Shirts”. My last vacation break was this past winter and I traveled to New York City. I really LOVE this city. So much, that I decided to make a design based on it.

Have you notice that every alien, monster, zombie, robot or natural disaster movie seem to take place in NYC? Someone in Hollywood must really hate New Yorkers. Well, my design depicts this, on how every freaking time there is something unnatural going on, it just happens in NYC, or at least begins there. All these creatures should start looking for other places to bother… How about Alaska? Nothing happens there, at least not in the movies :)

Hope you like this design as much as I do and vote for it!

ExploreNYC ShirtComp

The TV ate my Memories

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“PREVIOUSLY, ON…”

I love when a new episode of my favorite TV show is about to start and I hear those words.

This week’s theme @Shirt.Woot is “Television” and I designed a shirt based on, what else, Zombies. This “infected” TV/VCR is eating the internal tape of that poor VHS, while playing a show about the undead. You can vote for this design HERE.

The TV ate my Memories

Meatatarian Among Vegetarians

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Don’t you hate being the oddball in a group of people. I do too, but that doesn’t mean you can’t have fun while you are with that group. That is what my latest design is about, having fun while being different. Vegetarians can be a pain sometimes if you are the only meat lover around, so show them how you feel with this design!

“Meatatarian Among Vegetarians”

AnimalCracker ShirtComp

Catching Up!

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There’s a lot of stuff happening right now. I’ve been busy designing shirts almost every week and submitting them to Woot’s derbies. As always, I try to use different or new styles every time and I am very happy with the results. I am very confident that some of them may become real shirts sometime soon. But that’s the tricky part. Every shirt site has it’s own demographic and not every design fits on it. That’s why I’ve been submitting some of my designs to other sites.

I recently received and invitation to join Pampling, a shirt site from Spain. I’ve seen it around but I have never given it a try, until now. That invitation motivated me to move my designs around, so I immediately decided to participate. I submitted my design “He’s a Hipster” which I believe is a very good design to start with. I uploaded it recently to Threadless and it got a very good score, a 3.44 out of 5, but apparently they didn’t choose it. So I wanted to try my luck at Pampling with the same design. The scoring process ended a few days ago and it received a 3.26 out of 5. Now I am crossing my fingers and checking my e-mail constantly to see if they want to print it.

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I’ve also submitted my design “Home is…” to Qwertee. This one is from an idea I’ve had for some months now, and finally had the opportunity to design it. I am extremely happy with this one and apparently people are too, because it’s doing really good. You too can vote for it and help me make it a real shirt, just click HERE.

HomeIs ShirtComp

I’ve also have some designs I’ve worked on these past weeks that I want to submit to other sites. Here are some of them. This one is named “Elders of the Internet”. It is based on one of my favorites TV shows, The IT Crowd. The design is like some sort of emblem or logo representing the secret society of the Elders of the Internet. It is taken from one of the most funny segments of the show. You can watch the scene that inspired me in this YouTube video.

EldersOfTheInternet ShirtComp

Here is another design that I believe came up really good. I’ll most likely rework it a little bit because I’m planning to submit it to a more artsy-oriented shirt site. I call it “The Encounter”. It shows that exact moment when a time traveler soldier goes back in time and has an encounters face to face with a dinosaur, in this case a very dangerous raptor. I’m starting to think I have an obsession with raptors :)

The Encounter ShirtComp

Even though the next one is very simple, it was very fun to come up with and I really think it’s very clever. I’ve being playing with words and visual puns, and this design it’s a sample of that. I hope to submitted somewhere else soon…

LoosingMyTamper ShirtComp

We’re back… Finally!

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Hey everyone! I’m back and ready to revive this Blog! It’s been so(oooooooo) long since my last post, but I’ll keep you busy this new year with everything related to my designs.

Now, lets get (re)started!

The best thing about designing a new shirt every week is that each and every one of them feels special. It doesn’t matter if it gets a lot of votes or just a few, if it gets printed or gets ignored, if it falls short or receives an Honorable Mention, it’s always a great experience and an opportunity to learn something new. In this post I’ll present to you some of those ideas that I’ve worked on the past few months. I’ll keep it short with only three designs this time, but I’ll keep you updated with every design. I hope you like them as much as I do!

Here’s my latest design, submitted for this week’s derby “Literary Classics”. It’s titled “Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea”, based on Jules Vernes’ masterpiece. The style I used here reflects some things I learned last week while inking another design. I used Illustrator a lot more than I usually do, and used Photoshop just coloring and not illustrating like I’ used to. I think that I’ll go down this road a little bit more often because I really like how the design looks using these techniques. Hope you like it and vote for it here.

20,000Leagues ShirtComp

Last week’s theme was “Mad Science!”, and there’s nothing better than a T-Rex with tentacles to represent this theme :) . I present to you a scientific marvel, “Who’s Laughing Now?”

WhosLaughingNow2 ShirtComp

On January 18, I submitted “Exclamation of Triumph” for the derby “The 90′s”. This design uses the word Boo-Yah, a term used on the 1990′s to express triumph. I merged it with the design from Sheldon Cooper’s Bazinga shirt from the TV show “The Big Bang Theory”.

Booyah ShirtComp

Night Watcher

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Sure, he can always illuminate and keep guard of what’s in front of him. But he can never see what’s lurking behind him. And that can be scary even if it’s not.

Side note: If you look this design from a distance, it looks like the monster is angry (see the shirt comp), but when you look it closely, he’s happy to have a new friend.

Night Watcher

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