So, on my way to Chicago recently , I managed to lose a shit ton of stuff on the metro: 2 L-series Canon camera lenses, misc cables, and….3 or 4 of my favorite shirts. Eek. So, while the lenses were one issue, I also needed other stuff to wear. On the recommendation of my wife, I actually went to Zazzle to create myself some shirts out of my own art. I like the art and stuff on threadless and red bubble, but the shirt quality left something to be desired. A friend had used Zazzle for his stuff and I really thought the shirts came out well. So, I ordered myself some with my own art.

Wait, hrm. If I’m going to make myself some, why not leave them up for everyone else – just in case? Good idea. So I did, and added a few more. Not all of what I do lends itself to this sort of thing, but I like to think what I put up works well.

You can find the store here on my site: http://jackwhitsitt.com/store/

Or you can go straight to my Zazzle Store (Easier to Use): http://www.zazzle.com/sintixerr

It’s been a fun process making these shirts and other products out of my art. Not only is it actually difficult to figure out which pieces will work on clothing – many of my own favorites do not – but not a single one was “ready to go” out of box to put on a shirt. Each one of them took some editing…many of them some creative editing.

For instance, “Dead Jen” went from an interesting photo to something very graphic:

Before

After

This was also my chance to get a lot of my old doodles and sketches into better shape.  “Strained Peace”, for example, was a very old sketch that I only had a 136×200 pixel scan of. I managed to take it to 2400×3500 pixels. Crazy

You also may notice a lot of what I put on the shirts are faces, portraits, and characters. Well, yeah. It’s what I do.

Anyway, more will be going up. Let me know what you think.