From today until Thursday, June 30 (one week from today) all shirts in my RedBubble shop will be 15% off. On top of that, if you purchase 5 discounted shirts, you will also receive free shipping. So, now is a good time to buy if you have had your eye on something. If not, it's a least a good time to look.
For those of you who don't know what Behance Network is, it is a social network site for creative the exhibition of creative portfolios, projects, and collaborations. It allows you to set up a portfolio and showcase your work for free (pretty cool). Behance is becoming more and more popular and allegedly has millions of viewers monthly (including talent scouts for top brands). Right now Behance is an invitation-only based website. A few days ago I received an invitation to set up a portfolio site with them, which I intend to take advantage of. Hopefully soon everyone will be able to see my stuff on Behance.
I just wanted to make a quick post with a few pieces of work that inspire me; hopefully they will be inspirational for you guys too.
We belong Together! I have been wanting to do a t-shirt with a “message” for some time and this is what I came up with. I know that another Eco shirt might be more of the same right now, but this is my first eco based design so I hope it is still enjoyable. I wanted it to feel like an animal kingdom chart with an array of different animals (with humans included) and have a written message that indicates that we are all meant to live together, harmoniously. The more that the human race grows, the more that we have to expand and the more that we expand, the more that we encroach on the territories of animals. I know that this is inevitable, but I think that we should pursue new ways to share our space with animals and harmonize instead of simply driving them out.
This is a new set of shirts that I created based on Japanese Mon (Family Crests). A few are recreations of old family crests from Japan, but most are my own designs based off of similar themes used in traditional Mon. All of these shirts are available at my RedBubble store front.
Here are a a few of the promised shots from the honeymoon, which we spent just outside of the Great Smoky Mountain National Park in Tennessee. The park is the most visited park in the United States.
My submission for the newest issue of Blanket Magazine (The Portrait Issue) was picked up and featured with a lot of other photographs and designs. Blanket is a great conduit for exhibiting work (for the outgoing artist) and drawing inspiration (for the passive art connoisseur). The picture is actually a reflection of my wife that I captured off the glass of our hotel during a trip to Mexico.
Sorry, once again, for the hiatus. I have been engulfed in a whirlwind of chaos lately. My girlfriend and I recently decided to get married and we have spent the last couple of months planning our wedding and the thereafter. Everything went down on June 20th, so I am now a happily married designer, lol. I will be posting some pics from the trip we took, shortly.
