Sean Burnett is a view askew.

Well, so much for this blog having any semblance of order. The Sean Burnett shirt in this post is actually my latest shirt. (I was going to try and write them chronologically, but that went out the window with post number... 3. I'm a damn fine sticker to plans.)
Sean has always been kind of an enigma to me. He doesn't really look the part of a baseball player. Anytime I look at him in the pen, he's usually wearing a hoody with his hat barely on his head. It doesn't bug me as I've been guilty of this in the past, but my wife always wants to tell him to straighten his hat. In my head I always imagine Sean responding something to the effect of, "Na." Which is cool, cause you see... he be cool. And he knows it. Anyway, even though he doesn't look like a typical player (even in his pitching motion which itself is kinda... crooked?) he's one damn effective reliever. So, I decided he had to have a shirt, and this is what I came up with, the Sean Burnett shirt:






It's not based on any one picture that I saw of him, although I did use a couple to try and get the right amount of tilt on the hat.


I had no luck re-creating the soul patch under his bottom lip, so I just decided his chin hair would be enough. Now show your inner rebel and buy, like, 12. One for you, and one for each of your crew.

The second Drew Storen shirt

I know, I know. I didn't even post the first Drew Storen shirt and I'm already posting about the second. Well, fact is, I'm kind of in a hurry right now and that first Drew shirt was an eye opener and really deserves a lot of attention, much more than I can devote now.
This Drew shirt started out as a play on "Viva El Drew K!" which itself was a play on a nickname Storen had at one point in his life. El Drew K itself is an homage to Orlando Hernandez, a Cuban born pitcher that has the nickname El Duque (The Duke). Why El Duque? Hell if I know, but it sure does make El Drew K witty. I wanted this shirt to be graffiti driven from the start, so a wanted poster with "Viva El Drew K" being scrawled across it popped into my head. It took me about three days to do the poster, and an entire day to decide on a font for the graffiti. Once I had the font, I spent a good portion of time angling the script. This way. That way. Run it by friends. Decide it's good. Change it again. I didn't want to obscure too much of Drew's face, but I thought that the bandits (the "El Drew K Crew") wouldn't really care about that. So, I finally went with what I had at the end of one of the days. The crossing out of the "WANTED" was a very, very last second decision, but one I'm still happy with.

The one that started it all - Tyler Clippard "Fear the Goggles"

I was working on a silhouette of Drew Storen, because of his huge leg kick, when I kinda drifted over to Tyler Clippard. I always liked the guy, and his delivery is so unique that the silhouette idea seemed to fit him better. This was the first design I uploaded to my spreadshirt store, and one I'm still proud of. It's a vector design, which means it's limited to three colors, but those three colors can be changed by me, so there are quite a few variations in the store. Vector graphics are also vinyl like, so no air can pass through he actual print. It's the only vector print shirt I have, as of today. The color here is the one I have for my personal t-shirt.