I’m working on some more t-shirt concepts for Crazy Shirts. Here’s one.

Finally! Crazy Shirts has purchased one of my designs.

I submitted 3 designs the week of October 30th, which was the “boards” stage. This is when you submit your artwork in a high enough resolution so they can print and paste the designs on boards for the final presentation where they choose which designs to purchase.

The following week, I got an email from their AD (art director) saying that they had not chosen any of my designs. Of course I was bummed out.

Then on Friday night, I get an email from the AD again. They had changed their minds and decided to purchase the shark design. Which reads “One Bad Bruddah.”

This, by the way, is Hawaiian speak (which is flippin cool). “Bruddah” is how they pronounce “Brother.” So the shark (and the person wearing the shirt) is one bad bruddah.

There’s been a lot of work done since my last post about the Disney site. A lot of changes after their first feedback meeting. Here’s what they asked for (click to view larger version).

I’m in the process of finishing up a t-shirt design for a teacher. Needless to say it’s been a fun project.

The final is a 2 color design. Since the theme is “learning safari” I kept the colors as a traditional safari palette. I gave them 3 options to choose from. I also did a full color version because I just couldn’t resist.

Click on any of the images below to view a larger version.

My wife and I have been fans of Crazy Shirts since we came across one of their stores while looking for a wedding location in Sarasota. We were walking at St. Armand’s Circle one morning and we noticed the store. We loved what they had displayed on the windows so we went in.

We bought a few shirts of course. At the counter I asked the clerk if they hired freelancers. Luckily she was well informed and told me about the artist program.

I set up a web page customized for them on my site with some examples and a quick bio about how we love Crazy Shirts and Hawai’i (they’re based out of Hawai’i) in order to get into the program. It worked.

I was then added to their mailing list. Every 2 months they send out requests to their freelancers to come up with specific concepts for shirt designs. I’ve been getting these emails for a while now.

You start off with some clean pencils of your concepts and as each week goes by they let you know if they like your design or not. If you’re lucky enough to get through the all the prelim reviews and get your design to final boards, there’s a chance they’ll buy your work. But there are no guarantees.

For the first time, I’ve reached final boards. I’m reeeealy hoping they’ll buy both designs I’ve drawn up. If they do, my work will finally be on some Crazy Shirts. Plus, it’s $1,000 for each design which isn’t bad.

Below are the designs I’ve come up with with some art direction from them. Although there are 3 images, 2 are just a variation on a theme. Click on each to enlarge.