I am addicted to a little site called Threadless to the point that I had to put an embargo on buying t-shirts from them because it was getting expensive. I promised myself that I would not buy another shirt from threadless until I had one published there myself.

Except that I really, really need this shirt:

Seriously. This is printed on the inside of the shirt:

But, look, I don’t want to go back on my embargo. Because I need to start submitting my art to places where it might get rejected (the reasons why are a whole ‘nother post entirely).  I also made a resolution to submit a design once a month this year, and I haven’t done it yet (granted, I made that resolution a week before the end of January, so it doesn’t count).

So here’s what I’m going to do. In the next week or so I’m going to submit my first design to Threadless, and beg you all to vote for it, and to get your friends, your family, your dog, to vote for it, too. I promise to try to make it as awesome as I can, because I respect the Threadless community, and I’m not about to submit junk just to fulfill some wierd obligation to myself. I’ll give myself leeway by buying the Invasion shirt if I get something submitted myself, regardless of whether it wins, and then I’ll go right back to the original embargo.

But, I’d really, really like to win

Tags: cute t shirts, embargo, monsters, t shirt design, threadless