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.