This design started out as a submission to the Josh Ritter contest for his album "The Animal Years".....Josh had this to say about his album..........

"I was thinking back on the period of my life leading up to this record and my experience up to that point was, you get up, you start to play music and you tour. It's such a strange life style. In a lot of ways I felt like I became this thing, half-man, half-animal, out in the middle of the country, playing. It was so bizarre. Everyone else is living their lives and doing things that are bit more normal … I became the proto-hunter-gatherer, going out wherever and doing stuff and trying to find a way to make sense in a human way. I think back on that time and feel definitely, those were my animal years." Josh Ritter

I really related to what he said. I drew from my personal experience as an artist building my career to come up with this image. I love drawing trees and I also play guitar and write music so the subject was close to my heart. The entire image was hand drawn using a Wacom tablet and Photoshop on my Mac.

Serenade was selected out of the Josh Ritter contest to win one of the general entry contests which was great. I want to publicly thank everyone who bought this shirt and everyone who will. It means a great deal to me that you enjoy this image. Did I happen to mention that "I Love Threadless"?

Well It's true.....Thanks Threadless........