Sticking with my favorite theme of heroic girls (see: Robot Derby Girl, Diodes are a Girl's Best Friend) and injecting realism or plausibilty to silly pop culture icons (ex: Madness of Mission 6 = PAC-MAN), I knew I wanted to make a certain teen detective her canine companion into the sole survivors of a Monsterpocalypse for the threadless loves Horror contest.

Everyone knows that it's always the timid, quiet, second-string female character that gets the dramatic arc and has the wits and skill to survive most horror movies. I struggled for days trying to come up with a semi-realistic interpretation of this toughened, nerdy survivor-type gal- until I remembered I was dating one, and asked her to model for it. She agreed -took a series of pics herself and held an umbrella in place of the shotgun. She wasn't sure about any of them but as soon as I saw the 3rd or 4th one I knew i had my pose.
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bio-blather:
I'm a freelance artist, writer and sculptor in need of a steady outlet for my ideas.
As a result I tend to cram as much info or story into a piece as time allows.
When I am not drawing or tinkering, I like to conceptually reinvent established entertainment franchises that I grew up on that I feel have derailed or softened, and try to remold them for a smarter, if not older audience of other aging children like myself.
I pretty much do this out of boredom and fun, for free.
I'm hoping one day this could land me a creative job doing this and not a lawsuit- I try to keep my re-imaginings vague, reverential and in the safe realm of parody.
I will also argue that you can never have enough zombies, women, robots or monsters in any artistic medium.

you can contact me at pittsillustration@gmail.com

lotsa one color tees today- both new and reprinted...nice! they are typically the only ones i wear and the kind i am afraid will be a waste of time to submit...but this gives me hope.

-although how much time will have to pass before so many one-color subs wins and print again?

what are your opinions on one-color stuff?
any design that can get the point across in 1 to 3 colors is tops, IMO.

thanks for the reprint and the continued support for this design.
it's still so crazy to me how it caught on, how so many people didn't even realize what it was about when buying it/wearing it until friends or strangers pointed it out to them.
i thought it was a painfully heavy handed metaphor when i drew it up, and i know it's not even one of my best drawings, technically- but the idea has really connected with people and it never ceases to amaze me to find it blogged about, or get personal letters from people who dig it so much.

thanks everybody!

i'm still working on color combos for the tee, the grid, and the blob people... for now, help me by telling me your fave of the four here.

i'm guessing this would have to be done with simulated process or whatever.

i'm not going to change the color of the structure.
is magenta played out? it just looks so damn good! lol
i'm leaning toward the black tee, teal grid-
but there is something about the magenta grid on black that's nice too.

thanks!
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biggish

i was thinking about transformers the other night.
not the horrible movies, but my childhood figures.

and i wondered why there was never a schoolbus.

and then i figured out why, which made me want to draw up a sub.

a schoolbus transformed into the robot form, but still mildly recognizable as a schoolbus, complete with the 'STOP' sign flipping out from one wrist or something.

but he stands shamefully looking down at his body because we see the limbs and parts of the schoolchildren that were in the bus when he transformed, mangled and poking out of his reconfigured parts.
blood running down his leg, maybe a child or two running or crawling away from the tangle of children caught in his musculature.

sick? trite? or just stupid?

thx to kennybanzai for starting me off looking up captain planet.

i hope to make this the best of the best of bad convention costumes- preferably the super hero variety.

i'm not making fun of the people, per se, but the costumes and the fact that their friends and family let them go outside in horrible recreations.

i'm not much of one to talk...i was a predator for like 3 haloweens and 'Cons straight..

but at least my face was covered.

saturday mornings SUCK now.
most of the channels don't even show cartoons anymore, and the toy commercials don't even come close.

so here's a few of my old favorites to bring us back to the day...

first, the best cartoon of the 80's, IMO


i especially like the kid's growling in these commercials



this ALIEN commercial is before my time, but how awesome-






one of my favorite toys..they don't make stuff like this anymore..


i had one..


somewhere between rock paper scissors and pokemon- were battlebeasts!


and wash it all down with the best cereal of the 80's



alright, add your own!

well, seems i probably should have used the critique option before i subbed this next design, but i like acting first and thinking later sometimes :)
i'm subbing an american flag made of bacon and a waffle. it's kind of a statement about health, gluttony, and america in general. it's not anti or pro american, it's just a pop statement that i hope can be looked at both ways.

so, i figure i will use a thin wash of translucent ink to simulate the dripping bacon grease and drop shadow that will make whatever shirt color darker like it's wet.
threadless used this ink on the shadows of 'urban camouflage' over the heather gray.

i guess my question is- would you wear the dripping grease tee? or would you prefer a version with just the drop shadow. it's bolder, but a smaller print in center chest.
the drippings at least extent the print and but the also make the them mocking, instead of proud.

which would you wear, if any?

and thanks to everyone who voted up my last two subs!
over a year since i subbed and they got the exact same score! lol 2.89

is that even good anymore? i remember how hard it used to be to crack a 3, and anything over 3 was a miracle.

everybody's broke. times are tough.
money is on everyone's mind.
i got a new tee up....first time back in...god..how long?

got a new tee pending approval- PYRAMID SCHEME

i'm gonna try to not be a stranger. i have a few ideas and i'm gonna try to submit them again.

threadless is still the best!

travis

http://www.flickr.com/photos/zom-bot/

see any resemblance?
if pic doesn't work, go

HERE


i know there is a certain amount of idea sharing that happens across the globe around the same time....but this comes out almost a year and a half after the madness of mission six....so go figure.

i think what ticks me off most is I am currently doing a complete redesign of mission 6 for my own shirts and prints (and because legally, the old one is threadless's now)...
because to be honest although i felt the concept of mission 6 was strong, I always knew i rushed the artwork on it to get it in the old '5 color contest' dealine over chrismas holiday when i was out of town and did not have the time, supplies, or personal computer at my disposal. I was getting set to launch my new clean, retooled, slightly reimagined version and then a fan of mission 6 wrote me asking if i had prints, and lead me to this japanese style version.

what do you guys think.
same layout, except mirrored (as it would be in eastern art), same concept, if you ask me