Donkeyblog - Donkeyshines

New T-shirt!
November 16, 2008

If you've been reading this blog since it was started back in June, the new Crocodile and Shark design might look familiar:

I took the old Ouroboros design which was previously submitted to Uneetee and revamped it. Why did I change the design? Personally, I prefer a simpler color scheme, and while I liked the old version well-enough, it is more in the subtle style of Donkeyshines now. This design does feature some differences from our other shirts, however. First of all, instead of having separate styles for men and women, we went with a tubular, looser-fitting unisex shirt. This allows us to sell it at a lower price than our other shirts, at just $19.99. It also allowed us to do something that our fans have been requesting for a while now, which is to carry 2XL and 3XL sizes. Hope you like it!

T'is The Season!
November 9, 2008

Our holiday cards are now available, in money-saving 10 packs (with envelopes) for $17.98! Check out the Monkey Snowman and Santa Witch. If you are having trouble deciding which one to pick, get 5 of each card in our Holiday Cards Mix Pack.

Please Dress Me!
November 2, 2008

There is a relatively new t-shirt indexing site called PleaseDressMe, and these guys are really great. Donkeyshines has 6 of our shirts indexed there, and we featured our Robot Penguin shirt as their shirt of the day this past Friday. I can sit there for hours using their randomize feature to see what fun shirt will pop up next. We recommend you index all of your favorite shirts from all over the net with them so these guys can keep growing.

A New T-shirt Coming Soon?
October 26, 2008

As you may have already heard, Donkeyshines will be adding two non-t-shirt items in a couple of weeks. By non t-shirt items, I mean holiday greeting cards. I thought we wouldn't be releasing any new T-shirt designs until the new year, but it looks like we're going to be able to. Keep checking back here for updates!

Price Drop!
October 19, 2008

We have exciting news! We've permanently dropped the prices of every shirt in stock by one penny! in addition, we're going to release our biggest coupon discount yet some time this week. Keep checking Donkeyshines for more info!

Kaiju Big Battel
October 12, 2008

Kaiju Big Battel is a group of wacky monsters hashing out their differences in a wrestling ring. That's probably the best I can do to explain it. There are live shows all over the country, most often in NYC, and Boston. You... really have to see it to believe it. Check out their site. I've done a bit of illustration work for them, but here is a one-of-a-kind t-shirt design I made just for myself featuring one of the Kaiju monsters. This relatively unpopular fellow is called Dai Hachi Hachi. He's part man, part bee and known for really inappropriate dancing.

I Like Dinosaurs n' Stuff
October 5, 2008

Here's a painting I did for a friend's X-mas gift last year. Maybe someday it will be put into t-shirt form, but who knows.

Alien T-Rex

The alien is understandably quite afraid of the large animals, but they just wanna play.

Lando
September 28, 2008

I just recently dug out this old t-shirt that I made 14 years ago! It's hand-painted in acrylic directly onto the shirt. I've always been afraid it would get ruined if I washed it too often, therefore I only really wear it for special occasions. That generally means midnight premier screenings for Star Wars, general sci-fi and other movies that geeks get excited enough about to wait in line for hours to see before anyone else. In case you don't recognize the guy on the shirt, that's Billy Dee Williams, a.k.a Lando Calrissian. Lucas never thought Lando deserved his own shirt, so I had to make one.

Lando Shirt

Call for Photos!
September 21, 2008

One of the things that sets Donkeyshines apart from other T-shirt sites is the use of paintings to display the t-shirts. While I plan to keep these, I also want to add photo galleries for each design. Who will be my models? Well, I'm hoping YOU will. If you've purchaced a Donkeyshines t-shirt, and don't mind showing your mug on the internet, send pics of yourself wearing them to: photos@donkeyshines.com. Please be sure to say what size you are wearing in the photo. If you want to tell me other details such as where the photo was taken, feel free. The example below is of someone wearing a men's medium forrest green Nessie in a Fishbowl shirt. It was taken in Subic Bay, Philippines!

Nessie in Fishbowl

Save! 15%! This Week!
September 14, 2008

Everyone! Use coupon code happy98 and save 15% on everything at Donkeyshines! This offer is good until September 21! Hurray for discounts!

X-mas is Coming!
September 7, 2008

It may be a little early to announce this, but Donkeyshines will "soon" be selling X-mas cards. Probably in by early to mid November, we'll offer packs of 10 and 20 of 2 different designs. Why will a t-shirt store be selling greeting cards? Why only for X-mas? Look for answers to these questions and more over the next month or so. Here's a sneak preview of one of the designs-

Secret X-mas

New Cuteness- Samurai Seal!
August 29, 2008

Seal Samurai

Why a Seal Samurai? I liked the idea of making a notoriously cute, yet helpess animal become less helpless, but still as cute. I originally considered making him fighting off a hunter, but I didn't want to put a human on a shirt. Plus, polar bears are also cute. Even when they're picking on seals, which are even cuter.

That other new one- Octopus Web!
August 17, 2008

This is little bulletin is coming days after it was actually released, but, well, here's the Octopus Web:

Octopus Web