Shirt Club 2025 - Q4

UPDATE: The art is done! The shirt is now up in the shop and redemption links will be in the inboxes of shirt club tier patrons momentarily. I had SO MUICH FUN making this design and am super happy with how it turned out. I actually added multiple different color shirt options for it as well as I just couldn't decide which I thought was best. You can sign up for shirt club anytime before the end of the month to get in on it if you haven't been a patron of that tier, just reach out to me via DM here if you do so we can square it away as it's technically a quarterly reward and there's no easy way for patreon to retroactively adjust costs and all that junk. Anyways, thank again for all the incredible support throughout this year and I will be back soon with my normal year end post and yapping a bit about some stuff I wanna try and get into on the patreon next year!

Hey folks, I am here with the in progress art for the final Shirt Club of the year! I knew I wanted to do a ramen shop for this last one but it took me AGES to crack the idea and start on a design I was liking. then today when I remembered "Oh yeah, I have to get that started" I thought of this little mascot thing. I sent a rough sketch to a friend as I was trying to think of a name and he mentioned how Kozō is a term used in yokai that are depicting as small, childlike boys and it seemed like a good fit. So I then was thinking on different types of ramen and wanted to find something that would sound nice together and thus Shoyu Kozō was born haha.

I still have to figure out the rest of the copy to fill in the bits and then I will move to finishing the art up for graphics and the printing on the shirts. I do like this silly little fella a fair bit though and think they could make a nice little sticker so who knows, maybe I will print some of those up too.

That's all for now and I'll be sure to update this post as soon as I get the design wrapped up with the final art and shirt mock ups. Then all folks at the Shirt Club tier can expect their shop redemption codes soon after.

I am already thinking up ideas for next years Shirt Club as well which I think will be another year long theme as I found that a lot of fun this year. Anyways, thanks as always and I'll be back soon!

- Teeg