The finished and printed t-shirt design I did for A-Kon 24’s shirt contest! I didn’t get a photo of the shirt table this year, so here it is on a badly cropped photo of me, haha. I liked the lavender option best~

There’s been some nasty rumors about me and A-Kon’s t-shirt contest going around the interwebs, and I want to take a minute to try and dispel them. Since I have won the t-shirt design contest for three years in a row, some people are accusing A-Kon of secretly commissioning me to win their shirt design contest every year, thus rigging the contest. This is not true. Although I am a contract artist for A-Kon and do advertising illustration for them, I am not considered an official staff artist. The contract does not include working on their t-shirt, nor does it prevent me from entering the contest. I just like entering it. And as long my contract doesn’t change, I will continue to enter the t-shirt design contest for as long as I feel like it. :)

I’ll admit this year’s entry was rushed and not my best work, and I feel like that may have contributed to this rumor being started. Next year, if I have time to enter the contest again, I’m determined to make the very best design I possibly can!