lots of inspirations come to mind-

'Major Tom' by Bowie is definately one of them.

-in fact, if it wasn't so long, I'd have titled this 'Tell my wife I love her very much- SHE KNOWS!'--- or if it weren't for legalities, even simply ''can you hear me major Tom?' any line from the song would work.

but this isn't Bowie's story.
i don't know if the spaceman stared too closely at the sun, if he saw the face of God, if space radiation melted his brain, if he was shot by an alien beam...who knows, but something went terribly wrong.
make your own story.

the '5' is just a handbrushed, scanned and halftoned element that sort of follows the contorted figure and mirrors the vapor trail. Whatever shirt color is printed, it should be just a few steps darker than the shirt.
I figure it is also a testiment to this astronaut's mission number.


I will readily admit that for the most part, the space man is clip art from my personal collection of outdated copyright free material. It has been changed several ways: color, added highlights, position, and facial alteration.
The 5 is all my inkwork.
the vapor is all my inkwork.
the face, highlights, colorscheme and overall composition are all my doing.
I could have easily drawn my own spaceman, but I just loved the style of the era this was drawn in, and the death of that era is what i am mourning in this design.

I prefer central chest shirt designs, but this also works in lower left or right positions as well.

Holy Crap ....
This is so freeeeeeeeking awesome trav!


I LOVE IT!


5$

Viva la revolucion!

looks great, love the story it doesnt tell....allows the viewer to think...

Yet another great illustration. Another 5 from me. Great rev. subs travis.

AWESOME

5

A vote for denim.

schweet... in pursuit of the elusve 5. We can all relate to this!

so whatcha trying to tell us? 5? what? ok..this rocks!

nice detail on his suit! sweet

I think you planned this whole Revolutions thing to build up anticipation for all these wicked subs you had up your sleeve... and we fell for it! $5 damn you!

I'll definetly be buying this when it get's printed.

(gets) my brain feels like that astronaut today.

awesome! my score matches your shirt! tee hee.

yeah ..not fair being that good consistently travis .. bad form

This is pretty amazing!

man, these were all last minute, like done within mere days of dec 1st...thanks!

FUCKING AWESOME.

$5.

wow thats simply great trav.my fave of your revo' subs
:)

wow.

reminiscient of 'alien', in a good way

I actually thought of Bowie before I read your comment.

$5

5$

Yeah, you knew this would strike a chord with me, got to buy this one!

very nice!

Tight!
I think it could be cool in the upper right corner, about 6x4, like a sports shirt.
Maybe on a light baby blue, a little lighter than the spaceman.
Good Work!
5'n'$

injosh, I will fight you gay assclown. Baby blue is for the gays. Dark blue or nothing, douchecake!

5$

um... ok.

yeah dark blue. because the pont is that everything gets progressively lighter up to the point of the plasma burst...if it was on a light blue tee, i think the vapor trail would lose effect.
i don't know what i was thinking w/brown, other than complemetary....denim is probably better. and i'm open to placement.
i'm thinkng lower left or right would work here too.

See? Nyah. Also, way to make me look like a belligerent assknuckle, Josh.

lost in space. Thats always good. 5

Man, all these awesome rev shirts just put the other crap to shame. I hope all these make people think twice before submitting something. This shirt is awesome, flat out awesome. I don't know what else to say.

It's called "Space Oddity" :)

but I love this

yeah, i know, i just always end up calling songs by the chorus...it's a bad habit.

nicely done travis, I dont really like dark shirts, but I would have to make an exception, this is twisted, and I totally dig it

You could make a trail of spiders flowing out with the plasma burst and call it
"Spiders From Mars"

i like nice nice work $4

Having recently scored a couple of your submissions, I must say I like how the designs are modeled by cool little cartoon people.

And I like astronauts.

Why do artists put those stupid drawings of people wearing their junk? This is cool. But it's not cool with that.

To display how it would look on a T-shirt.
Southworth + injosh = Massive Belly Laugh. My day is made.

This thing gets a 5. Goodness gracious, travis.

bad ass travis.
I needs me this shirt

i also like the cartoon people....but I secretly wanna be a cartoon...whoops guess the secret is out.
I really dig your art by the way, my kinda style,
the style of awesome

NICE. Fivenbuy.

must_have_on_my_body_now!


5+$

excellent technique, good to see you submitting again.

KACHIIING $5$5$5

yep, i'd wear it. i love the smoke or whatever that is coming from, or going to the visor. i don't really understand but that's the nature of mysteries.

i like it on brown, 5$

GREAT!!!

$5

I agree with Robsoul Trav, nice to see your work up again. I like this the most of you revo subs man. A 5 and buy from me.

the 5 makes me think of triple 5 soul.

would buy in either color
$5

Like the graphic but not the 5 seen too many shirts in the shops with numbers and i like to try to be a bit different from average jo 2

awesome!
5$

it reminded me of the bowie song but also of this ray bradbury story about a bunch of astronauts drifting in space...one gets shot, one gets his helmet smashed by another, and another ends up in the atmosphere as a shooting star

you got one goddam frickin revolution on your hands boyo $$$555$$$

You can obviously draw, no idea why you'd use clip art. Seems to me there are enough people taking images they didn't create and using them for subs on this site. Makes it hard to swallow your manifesto, man.

i love the space man but not the big"5" in the middle
otherwise its great!
5$

Nice illustration

bsmith, what the hell are you talking about? that's obviously travis' drawing style.

the space man is a copyright free illustration from my personally found, clipped and scanned collection of (at the very least) 50 year old art taken from vintage magazines.
- so no legality issues there. not to mention i altered it every way from sunday.

not that long ago, i used to do alot of retro, counter-culture b&w rantzine-style comics and collage art. I did alot of spot illustration for the Church of the Subgenius (the bob face with the pipe, to those not in the know) under the name Pastor Bedtime. this is me bringing that style to threadless.
- so no legality issues there. not to mention i altered it every way from sunday.

what i don't like is when people use stock art or clip art unaltered and call it thier own. as for how this fits into the revolution, well, this is something i never would have done otherwise without fear of repremand from my fellow artists.

...and so that's how i think of it- as a digital collage.
the spaceman becomes part of the design, but is not the entirety of it. there've been more comments about my 5 and smoke trail and layout than the spaceman himself, which proves it to me.

i didn't mean to post '-so no legality issues....' twice. oopsie.

I love it in denim~ <3

OlliRudi, I recognized the piece as a pre-existing illustration. It's a pose that's been used and re-used since it was created. Also, if you read the accompanying text piece up top, it's clearly stated.

Travis, there's no denying that it's a cool image, my only beef is that it's one built on somebody else's work. Legal? I guess. Revolutionary? Hardly.

I WISH clip art looked that radical.

Nice job, Travvy-Trav. I really like the keyline really being negative space to allow the shirt color & "5" to peek through.

you'd be amazed how many girls call me travvy-trav.
weird.

So bizarre, so surreal, so confusing, so WTF, so... I love it!

I like the guy modeling it

Nice job, Travis.

Love this one, from the five to the smoke trail, to the little splatter around the head.

5$

i love you Dperk/ mal agate, because you understand me.

I like the red. This is a neat illustration. 4

This is something i would most definitely wear. 5.

denim roxx

it's so cool looking...but i dunno how i feel about wearing it

\but it's well freaking done

i'd totally be interested in anyone who wears this kinda shirt ... makes them mysterious lol

5

It looks cool, but I really don't understand it.

trav-esty. how do you do your drawings? I have been wondering that for a while, do you do a pencil sketch and then ink them? if so, what kind of pens and stuff do you use, how big are the actual pieces typically? do you look at reference for the figures and the fabric folding or do you just make it up? why don't you have a personal website with all your flippin' cool drawings? just a few questions I had and figured this was the best place to ask. and I still support and love this piece, I hope they print it on the brown with the blue spaceman.

i like the idea of getting baked in outer space

2oo1 a space odyssey

when can i get this one?!

Awesome. Travis does it again.

kidaro- my biggest fan- where've you been?

2.58?!?!?!
This is a joke right?

THIS SHIRT MUST BE MADE SO I CAN BUY IT

muhahahahaha

this is really awesome. pretty high score too , too bad i can't vote on it :-(

I am so psyched i'm going to be getting this shirt. I knew you'd win with this one in some way travis. Nice!

I want that. Print it. NOW!

i really like this, and even more so when i think of it as relating to that song. i lovee it.

love this! Start the Print

oh by the way PRAISE BOB!!!

do you know pope david lee black the pope of all europe? hes a friend of me.

geatings and i like you work alot!

doczork, this was printed.... for the 12 months club =\

Travis is there a way to get a hold of this shirt? No one is selling it online and I would really love to have one.

unfortunately no-
i have one for posterity, and it doesn't even fit me anymore.

it was the only win where i didn't buy a crap ton of them- or couldn't- because it was a 12 monther-

it bums me out too.
maybe i should ask to buy the screens from threadless, if they still exist.

If you do buy the screens, I would be interested in getting two or three of the shirts. This shirt and the Madness of Mission 6 (of which I have now purchased 3) remind me of the science fiction art books I grew up on.

Oh and I look forward to your eventually voting on your Mechalucha stuff. =)