custom skater design

thanks to cafepress, i have been able to design special t-shirts for each of my little nieces - kitties, turtles, princesses, ladybugs...  but little did i know that my 8 year old nephew was a little jealous he didn't get a special shirt made just for him.  he asked me for one of a skateboarder and he wanted it on a black shirt too so this was going to be a bit of a challenge.  after a few days of working on it, i came up with this design of a skater breaking through glass:

the skater in this design is based on one of my friends.  i'm waiting for him to ask for royalties...  and btw, my nephew LOVES it.  as soon as he opened the package he put it on.  that's the best compliment i could have gotten. =)

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this shirt is available for purchase in my cafepress.com store: http://www.cafepress.com/OnCupcakeMoon.340434168

one for the boys

one of the custom design orders i received last year was for an invitation for two boys graduating - one from middle school and one from high school.  both were very active in sports at their respective schools so my customer asked for me to use the school mascots as well as incorporate the actual sports that the boys played.  a challenge to say the least - and how do i not make this one "cute" since it is for two boys?!  after spending a lot of time trying to use the traditional sporting equipment icons for football and baseball and having very little success with a design that worked, i came up with the idea to make framed jerseys for each boy and put the mascot in between.

my customer loved it and i'm very happy with how all it turned out because i feel it's still "me" (my drawing style) but definitely very boy.  i also just received another order for this invitation so i'll be working on that today.  with graduations on the horizon and this being a prime time to order your invitations, find this truly personalized design with the option of your school mascot & jerseys on my website at http://www.oncupcakemoon.com/item.asp?i=26001