Just another post in the life...of me.

Good news everyone! Well, I'm trying to get a little drawing I made into a post on tor.com and for some reason it won't work, I blame the government because it's too awesome. So that's why I'm posting this guy again so I have a new, fresh, shiney link to use for the posting process. Anyways, I have a lot of new things to post, but gosh darn it I have been working way to much lately to post anything, who knew that this time of year is the time of year that people would be ordering thousands and thousands of Christmas cards? My poor wife, I think she's forgetting what I look like anymore...

Beware of the tentacles!

Good news everyone! Really good news this time in fact. A certain t-shirt company that produces and sells a new t-shirt everyday has decided to print my design. Now there is one catch. This awesome shirt will only be on sale for one day. That's one 24 hour period and then it's gone forever. The day of this sale is November 16th, from midnight to midnight. The mystical company has a website and a name. And they are both named: www.riptapparel.com. One reason why it is a special company, they sell the shirts for only $10 and very reasonable shipping rates.

The image above is my shirt, but you have already guessed that. I call this shirt "Pocket Protector". A traditional pocket protector only keeps things from hurting a shirt, this one keeps things in the pocket, adds things to the pocket, attacks things, and might live on pocket lint until if is large enough for a cargo pocket. Then it needs to eat more substantial matter, like loose change, small rodents, and that fuzzy Swedish fish that has sat in your hoody pocket since last Halloween.

Now, I have a little goal. To sell over 50 shirts. No one has sold more then 50, with your help, I think this can be reached! So, please, tell your friends, tell your boss, and get one for the kids.

What I do on the weekend

I once bought a bear. This bear was a toy known as a Qee. These toys are part of the vinyl craze sweeping the nation with other lines of toys known as Kid Robot and Dunnys. They really aren't toys as much as they are collectible pieces of art. Most of the series are designed by different artists. They poor broken bear is one of the DIY series, a blank canvas if you will. It can be left in it's natural wood state or you can spruce it up a bit. The little guy pictured was home for about 30 secs, I moved his legs and they fell off. So I did what anyone in my situation would do, I whined to the company and they are sending me a new one. In the mean time, what was I to do? I had the legless piece of vinyl just sitting around...So again, I did what any one would have done, I modded the heck out of it. All I really did was cut off the groin stump, glue on a piece of a broken antique police whistle, and paint on a battery pack. Piece of cake. Now, it's a cyborg bear.

Good news everyone

As I stated in the title for this post, Good news everyone! I recently decided that my old domain name was reeealllly long and tedious to write out in the address bar quadrant of the browser. I was afraid that people might be getting severe wrist damage to their outer extremities used for typing (the wrists). Tylerdavisillustration.com was just to dang long. So I came up with a really catchy new name to brand myself with. Davisink.com(actually, the wife came up with that one)...sadly, that was taken. I thought it was so clever. Then as I really thought about it, long and deeply, a different name came to me. One that is catchy and fun to say. It has an 80's movie ring to it. Are you ready for this? The new website name is: 42brushes.com Catchy huh? It reveals that I like to paint, art is my business, and I know the secret to Life, the Universe, and Everything. And writing that reveals that I like science fiction humor as well. At any rate, please change your book marks, redo your links, and check back soon, I'm going to finally give it an awesome face lift.

Somethings that are in the works

Good news everyone! I'm ready and am now making a new posting for your viewing and reading pleasure. I've been lax in my postings lately. This time though, it's not been because of any visual distractions (for awhile I was catching up on the last 5 seasons of Lost...I sort of spaced out for a couple of months) or recent family reunions. I haven't posted because I've actually been working on artwork! Am I amazing or what? The projects undertaken have been for both fun and profit. The fun stuff is what I'm going to show off. Now, I'm not done with any of them, these are works in progress, so be kind.

The first one I'm doing as fan art for the series of podiobooks called Heaven, written and narrated by Mur Lafferty. She's an awesome author and has many many podcasts to be found at her site. Heaven is about a couple of friends that end up kicking the bucket and travel through the different parts of the after life. I've taken the liberty to illustrate one of the cities from season 5, Lathe. It's full of tinkerers and madmen.

The second image is an idea I've had for awile and is totally my own self promotion for self promotion's sake. Now that you know what I'm working on, feel free to bug me about seeing the final projects.

Oh, I forgot one other thing, I've started a flickr art page, check it out be clicking here.

Guess what?

Well, it finally happened. The last post that I put up on this here blog, has made it onto a tee shirt on this site. I'm excited for it. I don't think that I'm going to be getting any money for this but it's going to be printed. This marks my first time as a "professional" tee-shirt designer. I think that the whole tee shirt explosion is a pretty cool business model. These businesses are offering sweet alternatives to department store blandness. I'll admit that originally I was a little skeptical of the huge amounts of silk screening, I mean all over the stinking shirts. It was crazyness. But I think it's grown on me, maybe it's the fact that I'm on one, maybe it's that I'm really hungry and the lack of food is making me delirious. I don't know for sure. But I do know that if I see any radish men running around, I'm eating one.


I've put it off long enough. It's time to pimp my shirt (it doesn't matter that there are about 35 other people on the shirt, it's my shirt) and give you some fun pictures to look at. The shirt is only $6, so I'm getting one for me and the wonderful wife. People of the internet can buy it August 2, all day, then it's gone forever. If you can't spot my tentacled guy, it's number 31. Also, go to this link and this link to see the images better then you can on my blog. Enjoy.

Tango with this!

Good news everyone, a demon mated with the tee fury bird and had a hideous offspring. The implications on cross dimension relations with the demon dimension are positive. Also, I might get it printed on the 1st birthday anniversary tee-shirt for the company. I'm posting both pictures of the beast, one is the original and the other is the modified version for the tee-shirt. Just so you know, the one on the left is the original and the other is the changed version for the shirt company. Until next time, up up and away!

Illustration Friday, again!

This week is the fun topic of "worn". As a big Hellboy fan, he's one of the most abused and tired hero's out there. I think he fits the bill for the topic. Is it sacrilegious to draw this guy in church? My pen was restless... >)